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Challenge: Best of 2011 (Advanced Editing VII)
Collection: The Humble Art
Camera: Canon EOS-40D
Lens: Canon EF 28-105mm f/3.5-4.5 II USM
Location: NWNJ
Date: Aug 11, 2011
Aperture: 8
ISO: 400
Shutter: 160
Date Uploaded: Feb 9, 2012

 essay, part 8:

I worked very hard to take this photo, juggling two dog leashes and a camera, but this photo doesn’t feel like it’s mine at all. I am stunned and awed by this photo, how it captures so much about my two dogs and who they are... but I can also imagine seeing it as someone who doesn’t know these dogs at all, and still feel a sublime mundaneness about it, the apotheosis of the ordinary. I was not a genius when I took this photo. I was just a foolish amateur trying to fit two dogs and a cow into frame. I don’t know how this photo composed itself. I don’t know what light makes it alive.





original notes:

I was somehow able to walk two dogs on two leashes and take this picture at the same time.

Slight blend of topaz black and white on overlay, which helps the contrast a bit. That's all.

Statistics
Place: 402 out of 410
Avg (all users): 4.3966
Avg (commenters): 6.3333
Avg (participants): 4.3959
Avg (non-participants): 4.4000
Views since voting: 649
Views during voting: 437
Votes: 237
Comments: 20
Favorites: 1 (view)

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 02/24/2012 12:13:39 PM
I so love how the dogs emerge from the flare. Their dance is just as lively.

Originally posted by larryslights:
sharper focus would have helped this a bit

Helped it do what? Focus schmocus.
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 02/24/2012 06:24:50 AM
All the big guy can do is look on as the two taunt. Amazed this is on the last page. Congrats on the thumb.
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 02/24/2012 03:23:19 AM
Such a charming image. Congrats on the thumb!
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 02/23/2012 09:03:48 PM
bovinage de chiennerie.
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 02/23/2012 08:58:48 PM
An image full of life.
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 02/23/2012 08:36:24 PM
This got a 7 from me, i thought it looked so true.
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 02/23/2012 07:41:21 PM
This is rather delightful, I should of spent more time looking at it. Reminds me of my dog.
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
02/23/2012 06:01:02 PM
Not sure the leashes work for me, glowing in the sun. I do like the cow watching the dogs.
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 02/23/2012 04:42:12 PM
This picture makes me giggle. That cow seems vicious......LOL. Love the cow!!!
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 02/23/2012 01:39:19 AM
I have no idea why, but I love this!! : )
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 02/20/2012 06:05:31 AM
sharper focus would have helped this a bit
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 02/16/2012 05:41:59 AM
What a great picture! It will be impossible for all those sad, simple souls who blather on about 'distractions', 'blurry', 'no clear subject', 'rule-of-turds', 'lens flare', and all that rubbish to fail to recognize the quality of this photograph. I've seen some wonderful, exuberant, original photographs that were shamefully overlooked at DPC, but surely not this time? This one is just so unequivocally damn good that it must penetrate.

Your picture is a celebration of the photograph, rather than of photography. In fact it's pretty much anti-photography, and that's always a very good thing in a photograph.

An emphatic 10 for you, a 'Thank You', and the following posthumous* Purple Heart , I mean Order of the Thumb:



(* the 'posthumous' Purple Heart is not connected with the well-known mad poet and twisted art critic of the same name)
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 02/14/2012 11:39:40 AM
Fun on the farm. Love the blur, the smell...
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 02/14/2012 07:43:25 AM
not very interesting.
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 02/14/2012 04:45:05 AM
Oddly wonderful.
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 02/14/2012 04:13:49 AM
They have an audience!
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 02/14/2012 03:02:59 AM
The beast behind the gate doesn't much care for the ones in front! To my eye, the focus is soft but this may be what you were chasing.
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 02/13/2012 06:21:19 PM
Hahaha! Love it. So very silly
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 02/13/2012 03:10:01 PM
interesting subject... maybe if you'd gotten down level with the dogs you could have a very interesting photo?
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 02/11/2012 05:29:57 PM
Ha! What fun and energy, all being overseen by that great overseer behind the fence, like that guy in the Wizard of Oz.
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