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Challenge: Flora III (Basic Editing)
Camera: Nikon D300
Lens: Nikon AF-S DX NIKKOR 18-200mm f/3.5-5.6G ED VR II
Location: Huntington Gardens, Pasadena, California, USA
Date: Mar 27, 2009
Aperture: F11
ISO: 200
Shutter: 1/500
Galleries: Nature, Floral
Date Uploaded: Mar 31, 2009

 What an opportunity to visit the Huntington Library Gardens for the first time and play with my new baby: Nikon D300. Like most people, this was a difficult one to select as the ONE to put in the challenge. I'm hoping for the best up against so many great photographers here and these blasted voters. Arggg... :)

Cropped and added vibrance & curves layer in CS4.

This photo was not well received as noted by the lack of comments and typical DPC scoring. I knew I probably shouldn't have gone with the photo that I liked certain details about rather than the overall appeal. All well...here are two others I should have gone with: , and .

Statistics
Place: 182 out of 271
Avg (all users): 4.9416
Avg (commenters): 5.0000
Avg (participants): 4.8986
Avg (non-participants): 4.9765
Views since voting: 752
Views during voting: 210
Votes: 154
Comments: 2
Favorites: 1 (view)

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 Comments Made During the Challenge
04/06/2009 05:06:10 PM
natural shot
 04/05/2009 08:13:45 AM
Nice shot!


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