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Comment by Tiny:
Congrats on your ribbon,nice work.

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Comment by Melethia:
But the important question - did you get wet?? Way cool shot - congrats on the ribbon. And interesting how the turbulence depicted here seems to mirror some of what you've mentioned is occuring in your own life. Might be why it turned out so well!

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Comment by overboard:
not to mention the light... incredible capture. well done.

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Comment by MacDonald:
Congratulations on a great entry. The power of water is so amazing and your photo makes it clear. Great job!

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Comment by MargaretNet:
Congrats on your 1st ribbon so soon! Well done!
PS You will find out soon that the top scorers don't publish their scores. I was disappointed quite a few times when I started at DPC.

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Comment by capretta:
well you guys had an advantage with the fireworks challenge, we just need a kangaroo challenge now to knock those squirrels off the front page!

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Comment by Neat:
I just realised your an Aussie, yeah, 2 that ribboned.

Message edited by author 2011-08-03 02:06:10.

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Comment by herfotoman:
Powerful image. I like the black foreground, more dramatic, like a Disney animation.

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Comment by capretta:
Well this has been a most welcome distraction, thanks everyone! With a new baby, death in the family, and moving 2 houses at once i really needed something to take my mind off it all!

I realise that the subject as opposed to my technique was the real winner here, the foreground was a problem for me too, but i never thought to put my 480ex on. Due to the heavy spray the original photo was a little white and washed out, so i bumped the curves and saturation. I had put the camera on spot metering because the breakwall (the boxes with the straps!) kept on exposing ok but blowing out the waves completely.

A minor mention goes out to posthumous whose brusque/rude correction of my grammar in an earlier challenge irritated me to the point of getting on the web and relearning what i had forgotten about singular possessive apostrophes. I hereby present to him the inaugural Punctuation Pedant Pendant. :P

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Comment by tanguera:
Brilliant image. Love the danger of it. Congrats on your first ribbon!!!!