Framed
by ivash

Comment by jaredldr:
I like the newer one best :)
Nicely done!

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Comment by Sonifo:
Excellent shot! I like both the retired and this one about the same. I like the retired because of the shadowing in the photo and this one has great detail. Beautiful!!

Congrats!

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by ivash

Comment by tfaust:
Congrats on the ribbon - a great shot indeed!

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by ivash

Comment by steve100:
Pleased you got the ribbon , one of my favourites

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Comment by train:
Congrats on the ribbon
A very nice image

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Comment by ivash:

Originally posted by ivash: I must say - I've had lower expectations for this one.

O yea... why lower expectations? Mainly because this particular picture (that ribboned) in a way, is not an original. Basically, I haven't taken this shot because of the title of the challenge, I kind of recycled it.

I know the title 'Framed' is a bit obvious, but that was the name of the original and I decided to go with it.

PS
Sorry about my English skills, still thinking in Croatian :)

Framed
by ivash

Comment by ivash:
350 votes?! I'm amazed... Thank you for your votes and comments!

I must say - I've had lower expectations for this one. Why? Well, there is a little story behind it and maybe some of you might find it interesting or useful.
This particular picture is in fact a recreation of one of my earlier photos. The original photo was taken about 6 months ago, won a few contests and was proudly retired. Those contests had nothing to do with framing or any other theme, just an ordinary POTD contests.
Then, I saw 'Framing' contest on DPC... I remembered the retired photo and decided to repeat the shooting session, not only to follow the DPC rules, but to find out what has changed in 6 months regarding my shooting skills and such... The important thing was not to look at the original photo because that would have killed the experiment. However, as I had found out later, there was a downside to this - two pictures were not taken at the same time of the day (nor the same time of the year for that matter).
So... went on the location, took a few shots, picked one picture, cropped it, adjusted levels and shadow/highlight ratio, played with curves, resized the edited picture and here we are.
Any improvement in 6 months? That's for you to judge, here's the older picture.

Framed
by ivash

Comment by Resusit8u:
Glad to see this ribboned ! Congrats on the red.

Framed
by ivash

Comment by groggyfroggy:
congrats on your 2nd place ribbon.

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Comment by Zoomdak:
Congrats on 2nd place, very well done. I was scared this photo would beat me during the competition =).