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in the habit of showing up every 17 years, brood X cicadas
in the habit of showing up every 17 years, brood X cicadas
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Photograph Information Photographer's Comments
Challenge: Habits (Basic Editing I)
Camera: Minolta DiMAGE A1
Location: Patuxent Research Refuge, Anne Arundel Co, MD
Date: May 16, 2004
Aperture: f 11
ISO: 100
Shutter: 1/10 sec
Galleries: Nature, Macro
Date Uploaded: May 18, 2004

 cropped, slight color balance adjustment to reduce green, contrast, resize, border, Neat Image


Statistics
Place: 38 out of 256
Avg (all users): 5.6339
Avg (commenters): 7.0526
Avg (participants): 5.4476
Avg (non-participants): 5.7651
Views since voting: 1160
Votes: 254
Comments: 21
Favorites: 1 (view)

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 Comments Made During the Challenge
05/25/2004 09:23:40 PM
Composition: Subject Placement, Cropping, Background (20% Weight): 6
Technical: Focus, Exposure, Lighting, Processing (20% Weight): 7
Appeal: Is it Interesting, Motivating, Etc. (30% Weight): 6
How well does it meet the challenge (30% Weight): 8
Total Rating (Rounded) 7
05/25/2004 04:31:41 PM
Excellent sharpness and composition.
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 05/25/2004 04:30:10 PM
great shot, but the bottom one tends to distract from the picture overall.
I haven't lessened the score for that, well done.
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 05/24/2004 07:56:36 PM
Your title makes me smile - nice try for a connection with "habits" there! I hope people give you the benefit of the doubt - this is a nice photo.
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 05/24/2004 10:34:19 AM
my 4 yr old has been collecting these things all week ...she loves them, they also make good fishing bait =) nice capture..so glad they only have a habit of showing up every 17 yrs
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 05/23/2004 05:17:59 PM
Nice photo, wouldn't relate to habit without the title
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 05/22/2004 09:53:21 AM
It's no more a habit with them than falling asleep is with you. It's part of the natural cycle, and not optional. Nice shot, though.
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 05/21/2004 06:43:36 PM
Great shot, nice work.
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 05/21/2004 11:52:49 AM
stunning macro shot.........
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 05/20/2004 10:24:38 PM
Very nice. It's seems a bit of a stretch for the habits theme but it doesn't change the fact that it's an amazing photo. The color of their eyes is amazing.
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 05/20/2004 07:41:38 PM
Very nice macro.
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 05/20/2004 12:31:13 PM
The best I've seen for this challenge so far. Terrific!
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 05/20/2004 10:31:10 AM
I heard an explanation of why 17 years.. it is prime, so the potential eaters, that also "sleep" for a fixed number of years (always prime), can't never get in sync with them and terminate with all in some cicles... if one year they coincide, they have many many years to recover.
 05/20/2004 05:13:53 AM
Excellent colour & composition. I think it stretches the category a bit, but still scores well because of the quality. 9
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 05/19/2004 07:29:10 PM
Wonderful capture. They look bizarrely plastic - the saturation is lush and the focus is pretty crisp as is the DOF. I like your composition with the diagonal positions of the cicadas and the stem running the full diagonal. The periodicity of the cicadas is hardly a habit, merely their existence, but then again, to me bugs are a photography habit!
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 05/19/2004 04:43:51 PM
This is a very nice shot but I am not sure how it fits the challenge.
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 05/19/2004 04:32:02 PM
haha so you read the articles too, huh?
 05/19/2004 02:29:38 PM
You would take someof the yellow out of the image. Iwould work with selective colors and unsaturated your yellow just a bit.
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 05/19/2004 01:21:56 PM
One of the better macro's I've seen in a while, nice DOF, 10
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 05/19/2004 11:23:41 AM
great photo - not relevant
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 05/19/2004 01:48:22 AM
very sharp
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