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Far away and back home
Far away and back home
mcaldo


Photograph Information Photographer's Comments
Challenge: Portrait II (Advanced Editing VII)
Camera: Samsung GX-10
Lens: Pentax SMC DA 55-300mm F4.5-5.8ED
Location: Pula, Sardinia (Italy)
Date: Dec 27, 2011
Aperture: f/22
ISO: 100
Shutter: 1/2
Date Uploaded: Dec 28, 2011

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Statistics
Place: 88 out of 93
Avg (all users): 4.5270
Avg (commenters): 7.1250
Avg (participants): 4.8333
Avg (non-participants): 4.3511
Views since voting: 392
Views during voting: 291
Votes: 148
Comments: 12
Favorites: 0


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01/18/2012 09:48:03 PM
This is, quite simply, a beautiful photograph. Deserves to be printed and hung proudly.
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01/09/2012 09:02:17 AM
This is a great shot in any challenge. So emotive.
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01/09/2012 12:10:37 AM
Hey you got a thumb as well.....cool.
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
01/08/2012 10:14:11 PM
Lovely photo, not sure if it meets the challenge, probably not, but neither do I sometimes. 9
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01/08/2012 10:16:05 AM
It is a wonderful thing being out in nature, the power of the sea.
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01/07/2012 02:44:00 AM
I like this. Many will bleat that it isn't a portrait, but it is for me. A picture like this of my late father, for example, would have been a perfect portrait of him.

The conventional approach to portraits is of course the close up head shot with the pimped eyes and grotesquely smoothed skin. Or the gnarly head shot with the grunge processing.

The conventional approach to the challenge topic ('classic portrait' and 'typically captures the face' blah blah blah) is to be constrained by it, rather than liberated by it.

You'll be getting blasted for your audacity, just as did this fellow traveler.

Convention and blind obedience suck, don't they? Why go along, just to produce something two-dimensional and instantly forgettable? So BRAVO you, and please accept my top pick, a 10, and an Order of the Thumb.
Thank you.
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01/04/2012 03:57:41 PM
+1 for the courage to submit this as portrait!
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01/02/2012 11:49:28 AM
Its a really good image,but will be ignored as it is faceless. Do it again another time.
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01/02/2012 11:38:00 AM
Wonderful environmental portrait. This says a lot about the subject even though he/she is only represented by a small silhouette.
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01/02/2012 10:22:00 AM
enter the wrong challenge?
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01/02/2012 12:36:44 AM
Sadly, this fabulous image is in the wrong challenge. Despite its incredible power, this is too far outside the definition of portraiture for voters to relate it as such.
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01/02/2012 12:18:20 AM
While I like the image, I'd hardly call it a portrait
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