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Erland Pillegaard
{K:34147} 1/22/2007
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Great picture in great color,very nice done picture
erland
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Eb Mueller
{K:24960} 1/22/2007
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Novel shot with a mysterious atmosphere. It looks like a tabletop arrangement or a model in this light.
Eb
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Mary Slade
{K:40338} 1/21/2007
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Such colours and shadows- a really beautiful image. Great to see the bark and details of that tree.
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jacques brisebois
{K:73883} 1/21/2007
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great capture, really love the colors and the shadow. Very nicely done.
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vanessa shakesheff
{K:68840} 1/20/2007
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Great capture ..love the colours and shadows ..great light and detail..nessa
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Clint Tompkins
{K:1347} 1/20/2007
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Funny, no one mentioned that in the lower left corner of the tree trunk appears to be a skull! which of course doen't retract from the beauty of the exposure. Painter Clint
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Fern
{K:2509} 1/20/2007
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this is quite striking............the contrast of the bird again such rich colors........and my favorite colors as well. great site after a long day
fern Benson
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Petal Wijnen
{K:50989} 1/19/2007
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You can hardly call that camouflage... LOL!! Fantastic colors (esp background... love it), super DOF, great shadows and excellent composition... well done!!! The only thing you might consider modifying is the bottom... cropping a cm wouldn't be a loss... ;-D
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Joggie van Staden
{K:41700} 1/19/2007
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Thanks Yoshiyuki
Its because the place is so awesome - one cannot help to take good photos!
Joggie
(Thanks for adding me as a friend - I am honoured)
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Yoshiyuki Tanaka
{K:13580} 1/19/2007
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The colours are unbelievable!!!!And the composition...striking! WHAT would there be to criticize??????
YT
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Dave Stacey
{K:150877} 1/18/2007
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Wonderful lighting and colour here, Joggie! The bird, which is much different from our crows, is a real bonus, too. I like the way you caught the shadow in the background.
Dave.
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Shirley Grove
{K:5514} 1/18/2007
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Sossusvlei met gras en al.....
Stunning capture Joggie - been looking through your photos and what I've missed these past couple of months. Your work never ceases to amaze me - it's brilliant.
Groete
Shirley
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ISMAEL MARCOS
{K:10535} 1/18/2007
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ex-ce-llent
ism*
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Joggie van Staden
{K:41700} 1/18/2007
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Hi Joe, thanks for the thought. The dune is high 80-100m. Took the shot from a distance with the zoom extended to max. For a different angle I had to walk up to the tree and would lost the crow then. Have other shots which shows the dune scale agianst the trees. Regards.
Joggie
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Joe Johnson
{K:8529} 1/18/2007
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Would a lower angle have perhaps emphasized the scale of the dune behind?
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Joggie van Staden
{K:41700} 1/18/2007
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Thanks Giulio for your gracious remark. Regarding the colours: I normally work in Photoshop CS2 using the RGB colour mode. I found that when "saving for web" the colour often changes, loosing a fair amount of saturation as displayed in the RGB Photoshop document. After some experimentation I found that by changing the colour mode to CMYK (after resizing and before Saving for Web)the original colours are retained in the JPG to a large extent (you can use the viewer for "Saving for Web" in the new window to compare it to the original underneath - just move the window slightly to the right). For some mysterious reason this does not always work and the colours sometimes go very bland and even get posterised. Mostly though, it works very well. Hopes this help.
Joggie
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Giulio Rotelli
{K:28441} 1/18/2007
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i love your natural composition: you have the quality to make a sort of painting with natural elements.
here, at first look in the preview you can even think that is about an abstract paint, but opening the file we see this marvel in all of its details. The lonely crow is the mastertouch....
How could you put this great red tones sharing it on web, i have a lot of difficult to preserve this sort of colours....?
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p e t a .
{K:18700} 1/18/2007
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I love the unexpected shadow. Lovely rich colour, well done
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Violetta Tarnowska
{K:24497} 1/17/2007
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Joggie:)
Mmm... the dune... :)
I thank You for the polite answer beautifully:)
Again...excellent work:)
Good night, Joggie:)
Warm hugs:)
Viola
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Larry Fosse
{K:66493} 1/17/2007
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Excellent warm color & detail Joggie
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Joggie van Staden
{K:41700} 1/17/2007
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Hi Violetta, thanks for the comment - the shadow is reflected on a huge sand dune in the background.
Joggie
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Violetta Tarnowska
{K:24497} 1/17/2007
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Aaaaa....CONGRATULATIONS ! Joggie:):):)
Warm hugs:):):)
Viola
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Violetta Tarnowska
{K:24497} 1/17/2007
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Joggie:)
Beautiful light and shadow, splendid frame, nice colours. Joggie..but I do not know, on what does this shadow is reflect?
Cordialities:)
Viola
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Shirley D. Cross-Taylor
{K:174022} 1/17/2007
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Wow...stunning, Joggie, and I knew before I saw your name that it was yours!:)
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Gennaro Manna
{K:21301} 1/17/2007
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very nice capture, great colors and detail...congrats
Wishing you all of the best my friend
gennaro
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selami Torun
{K:9397} 1/17/2007
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Amazing color, good composition, beautiful lightning..
well done..
good work!
Selami
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Joe Brown
{K:23213} 1/17/2007
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Rather unique shot. Very nice colours and tones. Dramatic lighting with shadow. Nice frames suits image very well. Ferdinand may have point regarding the cropping.
Joe
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Avi
{K:70138} 1/17/2007
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Mesmerising !!!!!!!!..... I wish I had such an eye for the detail....
Cheers! :))
Avi
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FERDINAND DOTREMONT
{K:6612} 1/17/2007
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Striking colours, very beautiful! Excelent composition: the crow is asking all attention on one of the stark places in the photo, moreover is he black in the fully collored surroundings. Maybe it would still be better if cropped a little from the lower part.
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