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CorySmith


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Challenge: Rural Decay (Advanced Editing VII)
Camera: Canon EOS-1D Mark III
Lens: Canon EF 70-200mm f/2.8L IS USM
Location: Helmand Province, Afghanistan
Date: Dec 12, 2009
Galleries: Travel, Rural
Date Uploaded: Dec 16, 2009

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Statistics
Place: 41 out of 82
Avg (all users): 5.6691
Avg (commenters): 5.6667
Avg (participants): 5.3514
Avg (non-participants): 5.7879
Views since voting: 700
Views during voting: 260
Votes: 136
Comments: 11
Favorites: 0


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12/25/2009 06:25:59 AM
Yes! I nailed it! Stay safe. Merry Christmas and Semper Fi!
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
12/24/2009 08:32:28 PM
Fetor? Afghanistan?
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12/23/2009 04:54:57 AM
Lovely! I'd hang this on my wall.
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12/21/2009 11:55:50 PM
I think this is potentially an interesting subject, but the composition doesn't do it justice. I would either pull back to show more of the landscape, which would make the buildings look more isolated and would put more of an emphasis on the texture created but the plows, or I would crop closer to show more detail of the buildings. The buildings are also a little centered for my taste. I love the uniformity of the color, but I wish there was a tiny bit more contrast to make everything pop (though the low contrast may be because I'm on a laptop).
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12/21/2009 05:31:32 PM
Very Parched, and the image does show a different type of rural decay.......for the message you have behind this, you get a good score from me. While most people sort out a falling down building, you (intentionally or otherwise) manage to tell a story, and make a statement. A different placement of the elements may have added additional effect, keeping the buildings to one side more and an expanding nothingness would have sold the message further. however, a great image that can have a story as well........
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12/20/2009 02:24:40 AM
This speaks more to me of poverty, and a hardscrabble existence than decay. A good image, but kind of outside the scope of the challenge to me.....5
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12/19/2009 10:25:19 PM
so interesting
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12/19/2009 09:35:39 PM
We don't get to see this perspective often.
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12/19/2009 05:17:21 AM
Terrific shot but decay?
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12/18/2009 05:05:59 PM
Aerial views are hard to make interesting IMO. The colors in the field(green) pull focus from the rest of the picture. Perhaps a different cropping of the photo would have made it better for me.
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12/18/2009 10:18:16 AM
Interesting image, but looks to be very much in use with all those manmade rows and tracks, and the darker field looks irrigated. But then maybe it was all once green.
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