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stingRay pt.4 .
{K:250401} 12/16/2013
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Thank you so much Marc it seems like a hundred years ago that I took this shot in Ireland. Best wishes.
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Marc Fontannaz
{K:2887} 12/16/2013
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Excellente prise de vue, premier plan très net et paysage au lointain tout en profondeur!
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Stan Ciszek
{K:56854} 11/12/2008
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Maca,maca and only maca could improve your memory,and not only memory.Just go to Google and find whot that,s.Let me know if you would need the best quality.
My best...
Stan.
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Stan Ciszek
{K:56854} 11/12/2008
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Hahaha....my dear Ray, I have same problem with my memory,I'm 63...but, there is one very good solution...Peruvian Maca,hope avallable in England as well.
My best wishes for your memory.
Stan~
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stingRay pt.4 .
{K:250401} 11/12/2008
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I think I just sent my comment to me rather than you......I told you so memory memory memory If you don't get my reply to your comment on this one, look it up Stan and save me trying to remember what I put cheers my friend
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stingRay pt.4 .
{K:250401} 11/12/2008
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I'll reply to this old posting while fresh in my memory Stan. If you read the 'about' it was all about not checking my settings. I had shot some night time stuff and I totally forgot to come out of 1600 ISO. My camera is almost always on 100/200 and maybe some 400 as a maximum but just now and again I shoot much higher. The trick is to remember tore-set the camera . At my age now Stan it's not so much practice as memory, memory Cheers for your thoughtful comment and on the other two old shots my friend. 'See' you soon, best wishes......Ray
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Stan Ciszek
{K:56854} 11/12/2008
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Beautiful landscape capture,dear Ray.
But to reduce noise,you can use a "Neat Image" software is free on internet.Also,set up lover resolution 100/200 ISO max.Try sometime use aperture or shutter priority,compare the resoults.You have an excellent camera and lenses.
Practice & practice as much as posible.
Wish you good luck my friend.
Stan.
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WAEL HAMDAN
{K:7476} 3/20/2007
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Very well done, nice scene my dear Ray
regards
wael
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stingRay pt.4 .
{K:250401} 8/7/2006
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Many thanks Sam....long time no see. Best wishes....Ray
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Sam Kh
{K:19017} 7/31/2006
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very beautiful place and lovely shot also
well done
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Ali Naghizadeh
{K:19600} 7/11/2006
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What a loveley scene dear Ray.. Too bad It's noisy but it's still a fantastic shot.. these things happen all the time to me too .. I always forget to change the ISO.. metering mode, white balance ...
The composition of this shot is real great. The flowers in the front add a whole lot to the shot..
My best,
aLi
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Susie Peek-Swint
{K:7303} 7/10/2006
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I do love this image Ray ~ noise and all! It looks so peaceful and to not have any commercial activity is a true find.. I was going to suggest trying 'neat image' ~ as Narabia suggested.. it can be a good filter for smoothing out excess noise but need to be careful you don't lose the detail from those lovely daisies and buttercups! Thanks for the reminder to change the ISO settings :) best wishes, susie
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Ange Brett
{K:1642} 6/28/2006
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Nice shot, great depth in this and beautiful natural colours Ange
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stingRay pt.4 .
{K:250401} 6/25/2006
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Thank-you so much for visiting and commenting Ivonne. I have just returned from a brief visit to your own wonderful portfolio. I see that you are fairly new to UF so a great big WELCOME to you and a big well done to the great start you've made in your pf. Very best wishes to you and I shall keep an eye on your new postings.
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Ivonne *
{K:8711} 6/25/2006
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Excellent composition and perspective. wunderful !! Redgars, Ivonne
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stingRay pt.4 .
{K:250401} 6/23/2006
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Thank-you so much for looking in Josep, sorry I am late in getting in touch.....busy, busy. I have just returned from a brief visit to your own excellent portfolio....Well done you, great shots. Very best wishes to you..
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greg collins
{K:12273} 6/22/2006
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Wow nice wild flowers. Good detail in the foreground.
Greg
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John Nobody
{K:4914} 6/22/2006
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That´s a lovely field of flowers, that´s a pitt that it´s too noise, but de composition is great. My best regards Ray. See you.
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Roberto Arcari Farinetti
{K:209486} 6/22/2006
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a very fine deth view.. roby..
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josep alsina
{K:19880} 6/21/2006
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Excelente y magnífica composición con unas preciosas margaritas (daisies). BRAVO! Saludos de
Josep
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Shadi Porooshani
{K:11236} 6/21/2006
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My dear Ray very nice shot
regards
shadi
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Galal El Missary
{K:84569} 6/21/2006
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Layers of beauty , i like it .....
Galal
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Kelly Duntley
{K:13889} 6/21/2006
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I know what you mean by checking the camea settings. I have actully gone out special to take pictures at a certian area and spent hours taking them and then when you get home and relize the delima it is very heart wrenching. I am very sorry that this did happen to you as it is such a dissapointment. The good thing about it is that it is another reason to visit such a beautiful spot once again. A facinating scene.
Kelly
All that said, this is still a great picture. The DOF is great and the colors are enchanting, from the beautiful warm greens and yellows to the lazy blue sky.
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Marian Man
{K:80636} 6/20/2006
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beautiful landscape full of lovely flowers dear Ray!!!!! excellent capture!! fine colors and details!! noise does not bother me!!!!! :)
all the best
Marian
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1301307 60
{K:44058} 6/20/2006
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Wow! lovely landscape captured. I like this super wide angle shot, what a beautiful mood created. The low perspective shows the wiew from just above the ground, maybe how a cat sees the world. Oh, lovely patterns of the clouds on blue sky in the background adding a different color to this wonderful composition. I like the diffrent layers seen, the sky, the green fields, and the field of flowers, very balance comnposition...
very nice Ray..
regards..
Will catch up soon on my comments..
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Nilanjan Mitra
{K:12955} 6/20/2006
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WOW.. what a place.. Valley of flowers.. :) wonderful...
rgrds,
nil
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Len Webster
{K:25714} 6/19/2006
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Nah, you're right, Ray! It WAS 'Whoops a daisy!' Put my false memory down to premature senility on my part!
I still have this feeling there was some saying with 'buttercups' in it, though I don't trust the mind to distinguish between memory and fantasy any more!
Cheers, mate -
Len
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joanna ewa
{K:8061} 6/19/2006
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excellent sunny view:) I like it very much:))
best regards
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narabia
{K:9563} 6/19/2006
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Yes, of course we should get things right in the camera :)
I think it is good to show not only perfect photos. We learn in that way.
best regards,
Monika
P.S. narabia is my nickname :)
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stingRay pt.4 .
{K:250401} 6/19/2006
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Hi Dave....sorry to be late getting back to you but I had a busy weekend my friend. You are the second person to mention neatimage and earlier today I downloaded it. I will investigate it at a later date as I use PS CS2 (badly) and have a very fine raw programme from Canon. After posting this image I found a little time to play with my programmes and found a way to improve what I had downloaded......too late the horse has already bolted:):) I sometimes think I should take timeout and bone up on these programmes Dave but I am of the personal opinion that I should get it right in the camera to begin with as overplay in CS2 etc can sometimes go wrong as often as it goes right. Thank-you Dave.....I will certainly see how things fare with neatimage.....Best wishes..
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stingRay pt.4 .
{K:250401} 6/19/2006
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Hi there Robert.....first of all I changed bodies to get the larger screen, spot metering and the speed wheel, the last two items I had been accustomed to with my old 1N body. My poor old eyes needed a larger screen 'coz the 350d screen is so very small. You have a great camera body and really your better quality pics will come via the L series lenses. The 30D will NOT give me better pics but it will give me a greater opportunity to improve my photography, providing I remember to reset temporary changes to the set up:):):) Best wishes to you my friend, hope this helps..
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stingRay pt.4 .
{K:250401} 6/19/2006
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I am more familiar with 'whoops a daisy' Len so I think it was probably regional differences. Trouble is, I can't remember whether I heard the expression in Scotland in my early years or down in Surrey for the balance of my childhood:):):) Cheers Len..
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stingRay pt.4 .
{K:250401} 6/19/2006
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Thank-you Monika....you have indeed brightened it up. I do have the very good Canon software for dealing with raw images and also PS CS2. There are limits to the alterations I will do to an image postwork as it is my belief that you should get things right in the camera to begin with. I was happy with what I posted as it suited my eyes at the time. Regretably the damage was done in the camera and I took the decision not to bend the shot too much. Thank-you for the attention you gave my composition. I have enjoyed another wonderful visit to your own work Monika...well done for some wonderful posts. Very best wishes...Ray
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stingRay pt.4 .
{K:250401} 6/19/2006
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Thank-you for your visit and comment Omnia. It is very good to 'see' you again and great to see that your own portfolio continues to grow with wonderful compositions. Well done to you and very best wishes..
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Jose Ignacio (Nacho) Garcia Barcia
{K:96391} 6/19/2006
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lovely nise.amazing details. stunnin bucolic pastoral scene. a wonder. cong. 7
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vanessa shakesheff
{K:68840} 6/19/2006
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Beautiful image ray ..great dof ..i could sit there for hours on a warm day with a slight breeze and relax..wonderful ..nessa
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a. gianfranco baccelli
{K:21379} 6/19/2006
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Very well captured! Simply field's flowers but so much beautiful...
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narabia
{K:9563} 6/19/2006
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digital noice is one problem but exposure is also not the best
unfortunaltelly sometimes 9especially on sunny days) it is ot possible to see on display LCD the result. Then the isea is to take in RAW files or to use programmes to improve the image. I tried to clean it a bit with neatimage (freeware at www.neatimage.com). Of course it lost details but thanks to slight sharpening and changing contast/levels it gained more "fresh look" :)
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Sheila Carson
{K:5924} 6/19/2006
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Beautiful Ray! I like the soft focus on this one.
My husband visited Ireland when he was a young lad. He's always telling me how beautiful it was there. I hope to visit there someday too.
Noise or not, it's still lovely!
:)Sheila
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Mohamed Banna
{K:34237} 6/18/2006
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amazing landscape shot with perfect angle and great compsoition
i like it too
well done dear sting
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Len Webster
{K:25714} 6/18/2006
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I might have been tempted crop the top of this and not have the sense of distance, but it's six of one and half a dozen of the other over decisions like that... Incidentally, Ray, my gran used to say, 'Ooops-a-buttercups!' when a little kid fell over. Have you heard the same expression or is it a regional thing?
Len
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Alison DuFlon
{K:36566} 6/18/2006
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I also love this shot, what a great perspective and beautiful scene, very nicely done Ray. Alison
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Ace Star
{K:21040} 6/17/2006
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like you said in the end ... i agree! beautiful and peacefull it is :)
excellent capture Ray
good luck my friend
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Don Loseke
{K:32503} 6/17/2006
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I like your close focusing on the two blooms and then going on into infinity. Don.
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Petal Wijnen
{K:50989} 6/17/2006
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Noise, what noise... looks like it's real quiet over there... ;-DD Wonderful pastoral scene, love the angle/POV, great DOF and composition... well done anyway!!! BTW cropping to just the lower 1/3 a presto no noise... LOL!!
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Riny Koopman
{K:102911} 6/17/2006
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Hi Ray,How are you my dearest friend,Its looks like springtime in Ireland!!The composition looks pleasing as well dear Ray. Regards from sunny Holland, Riny
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Caterina Berimballi
{K:27299} 6/17/2006
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Ohhhhh... wow.... I could care less about the noise! This is just BEAUTIFUL! And I can see you getting low down to grab this one too ;D Perfect DoF and the natural light is exquisite my dear man! Nothing wrong with this for me... a fav!
Kisses and squeezy hugs, my gorgeous pom!
Rina.
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Dubravko Grakalic
{K:25235} 6/17/2006
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excellent landscape
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Robert Kocs
{K:89085} 6/17/2006
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Oooohhh...so lovely field of flowers with amazing
details and colours. The details and feeling are
superb. Lovely landscape from you, great work.
Very well done my friend! Nice one, great shot.
Have a nice week end my dear Ray!
Robert
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Alicia Popp
{K:87532} 6/17/2006
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Realmente una hermosa pradera primaveral... me da la sensación que todas las florecillas "miran " el sol...tal vez lo adoran, él es el dador de vida!!!
Felicitaciones Ray... me gusta!
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Dave Stacey
{K:150877} 6/17/2006
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Excellent composition and perspective, Ray, and all those colours are terrific! Have you tried something like neatimage (neatimage.com - a free download) for the noise?
Dave.
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Engy Farahat
{K:11591} 6/17/2006
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Such a lovely scene Ray! beautiful composition.
I like the colors. It's wonderful.
and excellent DOF. well done my friend.
ng..
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Susie OConnor
{K:34798} 6/17/2006
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Still a beauty Ray. I have done that SO many times! I thought I held the patent on it....just when I begin to wonder why in the heck my shutter can be so fast...wait...1600! Oh my. Oh well.
Love the shot and the area. Well seen.
Susie
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Kathy Hillard
{K:25721} 6/17/2006
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Noise or no noise it's still a pretty shot, Ray! This must have been a very nice place to visit!
Kathy
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Robert Gaither
{K:34128} 6/16/2006
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Looks fine to me. So how do you like this 30d? I thought about it or a better L lens but then again I wonder how will it make my pictures better for what I do? I know I like to have that 5d but don't have the money or my wife would would lock me out.I hate it when I have my camera set for landscape and well I run into wildlife and forget it?
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Omnia Mamdouh
{K:5107} 6/16/2006
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its a wondeful pic Sting,
i like that flowers,then greens then sky,
its really peaceful shot.
well done
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stingRay pt.4 .
{K:250401} 6/16/2006
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Hey Larry....if I knew what I was doing with all this digital stuff and CS2 and uncle Tom Cobley and all....I'd have a crack at it. I know what I can do in Photoshop and I have perfected quite a few techniques but when I start doing radical alterations to a shot it never looks right to me so I keep it simple my friend. The posting above was the wrong one...I had one that was a little brighter....hey ho. All the best Larry and thanks for your continuous support and visits.
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Alessandro Capelli
{K:34805} 6/16/2006
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Great shot Ray! Beautiful yellow flowers, thousends and tousends flowers! Good perspective and composition! I love the colours, although the noise, because I love Ireland! Great work as always my friend! All the best..Ale
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Larry Fosse
{K:66493} 6/16/2006
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Well...my favorite trick is the wrong white balance although I can usually spot that mistake in the monitor...still an excellent presentation...I'd tinker with PS apply a little more noise or turn it into an impressionist painting
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Doyle D. Chastain
{K:101119} 6/16/2006
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Noise or no noise I can see why you still love the shot (especially since you were there)! What an idyllic, pastoral scene. I really like the DOF too. I think my house should be right . . . over . . . there . . .!
:)
Regards,
Doyle I <~~~~~
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Mary Slade
{K:40338} 6/16/2006
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This really is gorgeous Ray. To have that daisy close and then see right into the sky- a lovely image. The colours, lighting and the freshness a wonderful feeling.
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jessie voigts
{K:6772} 6/16/2006
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echo gabriela - love the infinity of this piece. it made me happy, all those yellows!
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stingRay pt.4 .
{K:250401} 6/16/2006
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Thank-you for your visit and comment Carlo. I have just returned from a brief visit to your own portfolio. You have some wonderful images. Best wishes to you...
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carlo raingini
{K:11977} 6/16/2006
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beauty landscape shot.
carlo
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Kay McIntire
{K:11787} 6/16/2006
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What a lovely sight- and no commercialism anywhere. That makes it perfect! Sorry about the noise- haven't we all done that? And the noise on that 30d even at high ISO isn't too bad. I would love to visit Ireland one day.
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Gabriela Tanaka
{K:16594} 6/16/2006
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A great feeling of the infinite!!!
Thanks, dear Ray, for all your lovely messages left at my postings! As always, a gentleman and a friend!
Best regards,
Gabriela
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Laura Spell
{K:24080} 6/16/2006
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Lovely scene. The country side must be breathtaking where you live! I like the way the blooms in the foreground stand out.
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Nicola Barbieri
{K:18000} 6/16/2006
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Oh Ray.... this is really wonderful!!!
great image my friend..well done!
Ciao, Nicola
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