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Swans at the Castle
Swans at the Castle
kevip6


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Challenge: Free Study 2009-04 (Advanced Editing VII)
Camera: Canon EOS-5D Mark II
Lens: Canon EF 24-105mm f/4.0L IS
Date: Apr 26, 2009
Galleries: Landscape, History
Date Uploaded: Apr 26, 2009

This is Leeds Castle in Kent, England. There were two swans swimming together and so I followed them along the moat until I got a good view point then took this.

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Place: 103 out of 435
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Avg (commenters): 8.5000
Avg (participants): 6.0000
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Views since voting: 869
Views during voting: 223
Votes: 136
Comments: 5
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05/05/2009 03:45:07 PM
WOW .. STUNNING .. absolutely love your photograph and love even more your processing .. this is amazing .. :)
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05/03/2009 04:57:18 AM
A lovely shot.
It looks so calm and peaceful,a place you could just go and sit for hours to relax:-)
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05/03/2009 04:02:47 AM
A very strong impressionist feel to this image - Thomas Dowling would have been proud to paint this. While it suffers from a soft focus and rather flat color tones, from an artistic standpoint, it is very effective being a rather placid scene conveying a sense of peace and tranquility. The use of the black and white swans in repose is also effective along with the rather Gothic structure in the background. Some photographers would have experimented with this during composition using gauze or light coating of Vaseline on the lens to create a more indefinite focus or intentionally defocused to offer up a dream like setting. Lots of possibilities here and if the author has access to post processing software like Photoshop CS4, it might be worth experimenting with some of the artistic filters. The author may also want to consider entering this into a print competition at a local camera club or even an open competition. The title suits the impressionist feel. A wonderful image that probably isn't to everyone's taste however it is one of this reviewer's favorites so far and an image that the reviewer wouldn't mind having a print of. Well done.
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05/01/2009 09:05:53 AM
Very fairy-tale like! Beautiful!
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05/01/2009 07:21:29 AM
It was symbolic, though not to themselves. For themselves, it was just life, and love, as it was always meant to be. For themselves it was as natural as the tulip in the spring, as the bee on the tulip, as the honey from the bee.

For themselves, it was beauty and wonder and feeling, and their love shone like the noon day sun and brightened their hearts.

For themselves, they did not understand the symbolism of this specific moment, as they glided silently in front of a bastion of the old order. An order that would have, in a time not too distant, forbidden their love.

Yet here they were, free as a pair of birds, flaunting that freedom in the face of what used to be a death sentence, and showing the world that it had, indeed, moved on.
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