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Welcome - Don't Park Here!
Welcome - Don't Park Here!
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Challenge: City Life II (Basic Editing III)
Camera: Canon EOS-350D Rebel XT
Lens: Canon EF-S 10-22mm f/3.5-4.5 USM
Location: san francisco
Date: Jan 1, 2006
Aperture: 4.5
ISO: 100
Shutter: 1/25
Galleries: Humorous, Urban
Date Uploaded: Jan 2, 2006

 Taken on a wet, soggy New Year's Day in South Park, San Francisco, CA. This scene delighted me with it's strong welcome and equally strong "don't park here" signs along with the flamboyant pink facade.

Post processing was minimal. Crop, try to straighten the sides with "Transform > distort" and sharpen.

Statistics
Place: 105 out of 173
Avg (all users): 5.0523
Avg (commenters): 5.9545
Avg (participants): 4.5694
Avg (non-participants): 5.1718
Views since voting: 1014
Views during voting: 466
Votes: 363
Comments: 24
Favorites: 0

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 07/16/2014 03:20:57 PM
Kind of self defeating.
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
01/10/2006 01:47:04 PM
The irony is hilarious!
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 01/10/2006 01:26:10 PM
Good find! I like the contradictions in the signs.I am sure you know this by now but, you forgot to crop after straightening! (At least that's how I presume this got such an unusual border!) Nice anyway!
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 01/10/2006 09:44:30 AM
pretty gud
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 01/10/2006 02:26:19 AM
Very amusing
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 01/09/2006 01:01:17 PM
The cropping takes depth away. For me, the eyes just hit (boom!) an abrupt wall.
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 01/09/2006 12:39:23 PM
No pink and big signs for me. Ugh.
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 01/08/2006 09:34:05 PM
It looks like you rotated the photo clockwise slightly but then didn't re-crop. Was this a conscious decision? It makes the photo feel crooked, even if it is now straight (hard to say).
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 01/08/2006 06:09:19 PM
Great colors, and the touch of humour is welcome. The white on left and bottom looks suspiciously like exposed image canvas after a rotate, forgot to crop? Still a 7
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 01/08/2006 04:54:57 PM
Shocking pink color with the red, but a good image all the same...
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 01/07/2006 10:07:55 AM
great image every thing has come togetherin this image 7
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 01/07/2006 03:46:52 AM
Looks almost like a doll house with the colors and blue details on the bottom of the doors. Glad you added that title... I didn't pick up on the irony right away. Nice job!
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 01/06/2006 06:27:29 PM
hehe... great find. Perfect title.
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 01/06/2006 03:45:42 PM
This is "city life"? No, it's not.
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 01/06/2006 09:48:03 AM
Pepto-bismol! Nice catch, nice irony.
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 01/05/2006 11:37:34 PM
Love the irony 8
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 01/05/2006 11:30:19 PM
Yes - it is contradictions such as this that often define life in the city. Parking and access are subjects more important, in a very practical sense, than seasonal goodwill to fellow man. And there's really nothing insincere or hypocritical about that; it's just a fact of life in the city. Well done - it's a fine and thoughtful take on the challenge.
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 01/05/2006 09:54:29 AM
haha a good laugh but doesnt really shout out city life to me
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 01/05/2006 04:13:22 AM
this captures the contradictions of city life well, and reminds me why I left.
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 01/04/2006 09:10:53 PM
Good composition and color. Extra points for ironic humor.
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 01/04/2006 04:50:57 PM
haha
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 01/04/2006 10:31:43 AM
The color is perfect. I think this photo would be better if the ground was cropped out of the photo, it takes a lot away from the photo. Still a 6
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 01/04/2006 04:47:18 AM
that's funny
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 01/03/2006 08:00:42 PM
love the color and framing... it doesn't say Big City to me... which a lot of shots are going for... but I'm not going to DNMC ya on this ... good work.
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