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Challenge: Music II (Advanced Editing VII)
Collection: Challenges 2012
Camera: Canon EOS-7D
Lens: Canon EF-S 10-22mm f/3.5-4.5 USM
Location: Palos Verdes
Date: Feb 12, 2012
Aperture: 8.0
ISO: 125
Shutter: 1/320
Date Uploaded: Feb 12, 2012

 I LOVE watching pelicans fly. They soar so beautifully. In a way, it's a wonderful silent symphony of sorts. I doubt this will meet the challenge, but I like it.

Had the opportunity this afternoon to shoot these guys at very nearly eye level. Such a treat!

[Feb. 13th, 2012 09:38:56 AM]

Ah. 4.2. So very good!

But it feels SO much better than my sucky score in the paper scissors contest where I MET THE DAMN CHALLENGE thankyouverymuch and still couldn't score.

I think I'll stick to the 4s.

[Feb. 13th, 2012 09:30:58 PM]

Note to Aldo - nope, not taken from a plane. Taken from a cliff overlooking the Pacific. They like to fly right along the edge - good air currents apparently.

[Feb. 15th, 2012 08:41:09 PM]

Lev has a good point. Pelicans are probably more in the cello range than violin.

Statistics
Place: 76 out of 84
Avg (all users): 4.5793
Avg (commenters): 7.7500
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Views during voting: 254
Votes: 145
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 02/20/2012 04:56:59 AM
A cliff?
I should have guessed, I love cliffs and capes, the music of the wind, the rhythm of the waves breaking far away below.
Wait! Rhythm? Music? Nonsense, it's just water and air meeting rock, I forgot and did it again..
So did you :)

On a different note ( pun intended), I always found cliffs and promontories interesting, in that large birds love them because of air streams, and big fish because of water currents. Lots of activity on the bottom and the top.
A bit like certain images ;)
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 02/20/2012 12:44:15 AM
one of my higher scores even though I thought this was yours, and I couldn't remember a single pelican's lament.

eta: hey you got more ones than I did.

Message edited by author 2012-02-20 00:45:05.
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 02/20/2012 12:36:12 AM
Don't get. The low score. EvEn in the thumbnail this looks like notes to me
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 02/20/2012 12:32:47 AM
a flight of musical beauty...
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
02/19/2012 05:58:56 PM
classe 9
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 02/14/2012 08:32:22 PM
interesting... in my mind pelicans are associated with low notes, sea-gulls with mid-registers, and little guys like sanpipers - with sopranos and falsettos :) I like your free-flying interpretation!
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 02/14/2012 08:35:32 AM
Cool image.
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 02/13/2012 07:06:54 PM
Was this taken from a plane?
I see the similitude with the three top ones, a bit less with the two central legato ones, but hey, perhaps aking them to pose it in a slightly different way was not quite possible :D
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 02/13/2012 01:16:23 PM
This really goes against the general rule to expose for the highlights and put fill light in the shadows. You exposed for the underside of the birds in shadow and blew out the rest of the image. Sometime it is fun to break those rules!! I can see the concept you have created to loosely fit the challenge.
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 02/13/2012 04:14:37 AM
The Dambusters march, enemy in our sites, really like this.
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 02/13/2012 01:08:24 AM
Love the detail on their faces. The are soaring
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