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Challenge: Free Study 2008-12 (Advanced Editing VII)
Collection: Good Stuff
Camera: Canon EOS-350D Rebel XT
Lens: Canon EF-S 55-250mm f/4-5.6 IS
Location: Mansfield, NJ
Date: Dec 31, 2008
Aperture: 5.6
ISO: 200
Shutter: 200
Galleries: Animals, Black and White
Date Uploaded: Dec 31, 2008

 shadow-highlight. calculations to black and white. cloned out some specks in the dark area and burned her face a little bit. resize and usm. No crop.

--post-challenge----

I'm very happy with the reactions. I'm very happy with the photo. I saw a cow and a bull as we were driving past them and skewsme stopped the car so I could take some pictures of them. I saw this photograph taking shape before I ever looked through the viewfinder. I was snapping away and then she fit her nose into that little notch. I couldn't believe it. Rarely do I see the finished photograph before I take the picture, but this was one such case.

Statistics
Place: 198 out of 407
Avg (all users): 5.6182
Avg (commenters): 6.5714
Avg (participants): 5.4690
Avg (non-participants): 5.9423
Views since voting: 1199
Views during voting: 262
Votes: 165
Comments: 13
Favorites: 3 (view)

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 01/10/2009 04:06:39 AM
...just so you know - I printed and taped this photo to my dashboard to remind me to stop and take the photos I see when I am driving around.
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 01/08/2009 05:00:09 PM
You're lucky, cows like you.
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 01/08/2009 11:02:52 AM
Snugged. All the boxing in reverberates creating quite an energy, partially alleviated by the textures. And there is a cow who knows more than we think. Your notes speak well of how real things happen.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 01/08/2009 10:13:42 AM
I tried to fav it again but the system won't let me.
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 01/08/2009 03:41:02 AM
Big Don! I thought I commented on this one. As you probably know, I'm a sucker for high contrast B&W. This is one of those images that's hard to stop looking at.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 01/07/2009 10:11:44 PM
Bless, he looks like he wants to just disappear, great image, well observed :)
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
01/07/2009 12:41:01 PM
This makes my heart ache and my tummy hungry.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 01/07/2009 01:22:12 AM
Such a startling sight, snugged in alongside all this savage geometry. There even appears (as your title suggests) to be a cutout for the nose. Many will be sentimental about this, but the animal is in quite good condition; just cold. It's a good and unusual photograph.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 01/06/2009 02:26:26 PM
Rectangles form an interesting pattern, but otherwise, there's little to hold my interest.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 01/06/2009 04:29:02 AM
Coming from a farm myself, I like this photo a lot.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 01/04/2009 11:52:31 AM
I'm really diggin' the lines of the barn, they really make this special.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 01/03/2009 07:03:10 PM
very interesting image, love the b and w
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 01/01/2009 08:06:40 AM
For some reason this almost hurts my heart. The poor thing looks old and tired. As a photograph, this rocks. Horizontals, verticals, spaces, not, and the foreground of snow leading up to it all.
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