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Challenge: Concrete (Advanced Editing VII)
Collection: Portfolio
Camera: Canon EOS-6D
Lens: Canon EF 24-70mm f/2.8L USM
Location: Canada, Montreal
Date: Nov 22, 2014
Aperture: 4.0
ISO: 100
Shutter: 0.3
Date Uploaded: Nov 22, 2014

The message on the plate near the Berlin Wall

This section of the wall is the blade of a knife that sliced a heart in two.
This fragment of rock is the remains of a dungeon whose walls life tore asunder
This piece of debris is a triumph over terror and tyranny.
This piece of concrete bears a message : The freedom of a people cannot be divided.
With this donation Berlin salutes the City of Montreal on the occasion of its 350th anniversary in the year 1992.

Hope you will like the photograph

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Place: 16 out of 55
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09/03/2015 04:36:01 AM
*Hello from Sid and the Critique Club*

An interesting image that fulfils the challenge perfectly.

There can be no mistake that this most certainly is a huge lump of concrete, but not just any old concrete, it is a very important part of recent history. It is brought alive by the colourful graffiti and your title during the challenge and post challenge with your very helpful comments.

I know one of your commenters likes the inclusion of the background, I am not so keen, or rather I love the irregular left edge of the concrete and this should be preserved by the inclusion of a minimal background, I think where the brown structure becomes black would have been the ideal amount to include and I would have dodged or cloned the part of the canopy that would intrude to make it more uniform. The bright lights of bokeh in the window are very distracting and spoil the overall result especially as we are excluding some more of the lovely graffiti on the right. The positioning of your red sunburst is good.

Nicely done, thanks for your submission and apologies for the delayed critique, as they say, 'better late than never', or at least I hope it is, Sid
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
12/04/2014 05:04:24 PM
Interesting and visually striking. Cool that you've included some of the scene behind the wall.
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12/03/2014 04:59:58 PM
I like the dimension. 7
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11/30/2014 11:13:07 AM
Nice explosion of colors but still obvious that it is concrete.
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11/29/2014 11:51:55 AM
colourful imaginative and definitely concrete!!
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11/28/2014 08:06:59 AM
Bloody sun.
bump
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