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No place like home...
No place like home...
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Challenge: Free Study XII (Advanced Editing IV*)
Camera: Nikon D70
Lens: Nikon AF-S DX Zoom-Nikkor 18-70mm f/3.5-4.5G IF-ED
Location: Cadillac Mtn. Acadia National Park
Date: Aug 12, 2006
Aperture: f10
ISO: 200
Shutter: 1/400
Galleries: Sky, Landscape
Date Uploaded: Aug 16, 2006

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Curves, Glow, sharpen, hue/sat, channelmixer on the sky, dogdge and burn, resize for web, sharpen again.

Top of Cadillac Mountain in Acadia National Park. I was up in Bucksport ME for the funeral of a beloved family member and swung through the park and took a short drive up the mountain in the rain to clear my thoughts. My kids needed to stretch thier feet and thier lungs a bit having sat still for so many hours, so I parked at the top of the mountain. No crowd at all because of the rain...

Everybody in the family missed this rainbow but me. Of course, I was trying to shoot and an emotional blubbering mess at the time, and I\'m sure that every tourist there thought I was a complete loony - but I got the shot. :)

No matter how well this does: Dedicated to Uncle Louis - more fondly known as Uncle WOOOOOWHEEE! Always a smile, a ray of hope and a ball of sunshine. He loved bigger than everything you could see from this mountain top...
In memory of every.single.happy.memory I have of him - and there are thousands of them that are still making me laugh.


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09/07/2006 04:32:33 PM
Nice clouds and colors.
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09/06/2006 03:24:03 AM
In a perfect world . . .
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09/05/2006 07:37:01 PM
Very pretty. I wonder if it would benefit from enhancing the contrast in the sky. Also, if you have the pixels to spare, an interesting alternative crop might be to leave out the left and bottom; it would put more emphasis on the dramatic clouds and rainbow to the right.
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09/04/2006 06:57:36 PM
Technical: love the coloring, and contrast is good...composition is a little too centered for me, but its still nice!
Creativity: i love the little rainbow in the background...
Score: 10
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09/04/2006 05:48:04 AM
Great quaity for first and also some nice details...ilands, peer and rainbow.
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09/03/2006 06:34:26 PM
Okay landscape. Rainbow definately helps. 6
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09/02/2006 04:44:27 PM
nice and peaceful. no wow factor(almost there with the piece of rainbow) but nice and calming.
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09/02/2006 07:51:42 AM
That's not a part of the world I have visited but your rendering brings it nearer to me. The wide open sky and elevation from which you took the photo give no hint that the world is indeed round.
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09/01/2006 01:58:33 PM
That rainbow sure makes the image come together! It draws the eye to the horizon, and then you realize how grand the vista is. Did you try a more panoramic crop, loosing just a bit off the top and the ground at the bottom?
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09/01/2006 11:12:19 AM
Home is certainly a beautiful place for you!
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09/01/2006 04:58:14 AM
Rainbows are so hard to get right. Your horizon runs right thru the center. You could loose a quarter of the image and still keep the rainbow intact.
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