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Challenge: Layers (Advanced Editing VII*)
Collection: 2010
Camera: Canon EOS-50D
Lens: Canon EF-S 18-135mm f/3.5-5.6 IS
Location: Fort Worth Stockyards
Date: Dec 28, 2010
Aperture: F5.6
ISO: 800
Shutter: 1/25
Date Uploaded: Dec 28, 2010

 One of the buildings that compromised the Swift Meatpacking plant in the Fort Worth Stockyards. The plant shut down in 1971. Sometime in the next few years a fire started and burned until it expired on it's own from decades of accumulated animal fat. An effort to destroy the complex broke several wrecking balls, and the remains of the complex still stands.

I'm very pleased with how this came out, except for the angle looking up at it. I would have preferred a view that was more straight-on, but the location of this did not provide anywhere I could get a better perspective.

Anticipated critiques:
-I can't use a border without at least one comment that dislikes it. Even a simple one such as this.



[Dec. 30th, 2010 10:29:26 PM]

Just received the anticipated critique of the border. bohemka gets a SpiffyPoint™ for leaving that predicted comment.

Statistics
Place: 12 out of 98
Avg (all users): 6.3671
Avg (commenters): 7.5556
Avg (participants): 6.1628
Avg (non-participants): 6.4207
Views since voting: 1193
Views during voting: 352
Votes: 207
Comments: 13
Favorites: 2 (view)

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AuthorThread
 02/07/2011 02:48:22 PM
I saw this and thought Layers instantly. Great find.
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 01/04/2011 11:10:20 PM
I'd agree with the border comment (you already have a light coloured surround to the shot in the site's colour scheme), it may look a bit better if you put a black "stroke" on the edge so the image doesnt bleed into the border (see light patch on the edge at lower 3rd on left hand side, and general light patches of grass at the bottom) - or you could just use the site's 1px "stroke" and pack more of a punch with more photo...

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 Comments Made During the Challenge
01/04/2011 04:26:00 PM
Perfect for the challenge.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 01/03/2011 03:23:04 PM
great detail in the bricks, great history in this photo.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 12/31/2010 05:44:30 PM
where is this. This is a very cool find!!!
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 12/31/2010 04:17:24 PM
Oh my. The picture really tells a story.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 12/30/2010 04:51:58 PM
Great shot and well spotted. Lose the border though. I want this as big as possible. Nice shot.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 12/30/2010 04:01:31 PM
sorry, but I just hate graffiti no matter where it is.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 12/29/2010 08:52:17 PM
I keep coming back to this one. Well done.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 12/29/2010 03:09:02 PM
Excellent framing in this shot! If you asked someone to describe it, I think they'd inevitably use the word "layers" at some point. :)
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 12/29/2010 11:07:30 AM
Terrific urban fragment. Maybe just a bit oversaturated.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 12/29/2010 03:57:47 AM
Well done - 8
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 12/29/2010 02:13:04 AM
like the sharpness and colors.
  Photographer found comment helpful.


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