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Ghost Bike at Double Eagle
Ghost Bike at Double Eagle
rajron


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Challenge: Memorials and Monuments (Basic Editing)
Camera: Panasonic Lumix DMC-LX3
Location: Double Eagle Airport Albuquerque
Date: Oct 3, 2010
Aperture: F 2.0
ISO: 80
Shutter: 1/500
Galleries: Landscape, Black and White
Date Uploaded: Oct 3, 2010

”Ghost Bikes are small and somber memorials for bicyclists who are killed or hit on the street.” //www.ghostbikes.org/ In memory of Heather Reu 1967-2009 Albuquerque.

Statistics
Place: 46 out of 84
Avg (all users): 5.0722
Avg (commenters): 5.0000
Avg (participants): 4.5250
Avg (non-participants): 5.2286
Views since voting: 585
Views during voting: 314
Votes: 180
Comments: 8
Favorites: 0


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10/13/2010 08:58:42 PM
Cool.
 Comments Made During the Challenge
10/12/2010 11:30:45 AM
A real curiosity - i urgently want to know in what sense this is a mewmorial or a monumewnt - nice picture though
10/11/2010 10:36:14 AM
different?
10/07/2010 09:58:07 PM
beautiful picture, but I don't see the connection to the challenge
10/07/2010 02:47:51 PM
Meets Challenge 3 Impact 3 Technicals 3 Processing 3 Creativity 5 Total (weighted) 3 Not sure this really meets challenge , nice idea ,execution could be better ,
10/07/2010 12:49:09 PM
i love pictures that look old
10/06/2010 04:25:34 PM
Great subject........something different and thats a good thing. The processing you have done on this does work really well, but maybe a little darker (make the bike stand out a little more against the scrub) could have worked.
The crop and angle though is interesting, and I wonder why you chose it. I understand that you wish to keep the road in the image (and I would as well) but moving around a little more (to the right if possible) could have improved this.........The crop is way too close to the edge of the bike, so moving around could have kept the road in the image, and the bike away from the image edge........also, a lower view could have made the bike larger against the rest of the photo, really emphasising the bike, making it large..........
But still, one of the better images in the challenge, an interesting subject and some good processing
10/06/2010 04:12:58 AM
I researched this bike and Heather online. You did a great job capturing the solemn, almost desolate and eerie feel to this ghost bike monument and the processing definitely helps here. Well done. I do question some of the composition choices though as the horizon is dead center and I would also normally like to have a little more room on the right side of the frame so the bike wasn't so closed in. Then again I'm a little on the fence there because I think it being a little jammed up against the right part of the frame helps give it that off kilter "somethings wrong here" feel which sadly fits the situation with the death of a 42 year old woman. Terrible loss, but you do her memory justice with your photo.

Back to the horizon line. I feel a slightly different angle would have made this even more effective. You angle of view places the bike seat at the horizon and blocks some of the mountains in the background. I would have liked to have seen an unobstructed view of that great shrub/tree above the handle bars. With that said...the photo is about the bike and I'm still giving you a 9 because it's a truly compelling image despite the MINOR compositional preferences I've listed. Good luck!
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