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Comment by insteps:
Beautiful collection of images and very well presented. It's a seamless experience that flows along peacefully. For me, the first picture sets the tone and then we go along for the ride. I think you accomplished what you set out to create and should be proud of your finished product.

My only criticism is that it's to predictable for me to come back and watch again and again. I'd enjoy revisiting the individual images, at my own pace, but not the video. This has more to do with me than your essay. I wasn't challenged or given opportunities to question what you presented. I couldn't bring myself to press pause and break the rhythm.

I hope you'll continue to contribute to this side challenge. Thanks

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Comment by 2mccs:
The video was a very pleasant experience. I had to come back to this site and reexamine the individual images for a better look, but only because i wanted to spend more time with than the video allowed. They are beautifully distorted figures and you handled them masterfully.

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Comment by ubique:
Margaret, we don't often see things eye to eye. Maybe we never have done, in the past. But now ... now this is a charming essay, of which you ought to be proud.

You are a good, accomplished photographer. That's not in question. Your tastes are not mine, but that doesn't prevent my appreciating the essential beauty of this essay. Or perhaps I should say this collection. This album.

Because it's not really an essay, in the literal sense, ... but perhaps I'm just being overly literal. I want an essay to have a narrative that is more ambitious than the sum of its parts. I enjoy an essay that proposes, even if only by implication, a point of view that is unfamiliar, or uncomfortable. Something that presents a position of which I would not have thought, but for the essayist's premise.

But looking at this presentation, I wonder if I'm being too conservative? Too hidebound? You've made a virtue of the light touch here. It may be (for my taste only) the Barry Manilow take on photo essays, but I can't deny its charm, nor its beauty. It's a satisfying experience in terms of imagery and emotion.

I enjoyed this essay very much. Lovely photographs, and a deft touch in linking the whole together into a coherent production. Well done. I hope you'll do more collections in this charming vein.

Painted Shores
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Comment by aberration:
Perfectly Lik like! I'm honored to be next door to you again!

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Comment by Cuttooth:
Thought this would be the winner for sure. Very nicely done.

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Comment by jomari:
Lovely - fabulous colours.

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Comment by ShutterRev:
Great Lik style shot. I gave this a 9, the color is great and it's perfectly suited for the challenge. Very slightly soft focus throughout, where a Lik would be razor sharp from the shore to clouds in the distance. Great job! I think this would be a really nice print on a metallic paper, as Lik does.

Painted Shores
by MargaretNet

Comment by MadMan2k:
Very pretty sky and light, and I like how you can see through the water.

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Comment by Neat:
Although this is not really my type of image, due mainly to the fact it's such a cliche image, done 1000 times before, I have to admit it is Lik like, and in the spirit of the theme, have to vote accordingly. Bumping up.

Edit for spelling error, ipad auto correction :)

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Comment by illini75:
Fits the category very well. Nice colors and the eye is led right down those pilings