Panic !!!
by clickodak

Comment by P-A-U-L:
Superb! Wonderful colours and general feel to this photo. Congrats on the ribbon.

Panic !!!
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Comment by illini75:
Great shot

Panic !!!
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Comment by bmartuch:
Beautiful capture.

Panic !!!
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Comment by Neat:
OH!!!! JUST PERFECT!!!

Love it!!!!

Bubble Bath
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Comment by snaffles:
Greetings from the Critique Club!

Marcel, lovely shot and I am glad I got this one to critique first after a few months away from the CC :-) The exposure is very good with only some slight blowout but not too much. The idea of flowers floating in bubble bath is excellent...but...the floating bar of Ivory soap with the logo showing, although it acts as ballast for the flowers in the shot at the lower right area, makes it look a little too commercial, like a soap ad :-/ Maybe if you had a flower with a different coloured centre, or left out the bar of soap altogether I think this would have been a definite top ten finish. Still 12/56 is very good.

Keep on shooting my friend!

Susan

Bubble Bath
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Comment by Cyrilda:
Very creative high key.

The Tallest Inclined Tower in the world. Experience advisor
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Comment by sidpixel:
Hello from the Critique club

An appealing image that meets the challenge well.

Wow, is this for real Marcel! What an amazing structure! I like your composition coming in diagonally from the corner it works well. The mono presentation and the way the top of the building starts to blend into mist also works very well. The cables, I assume, are supporting a roof of some sort? Part of me wishes I could see a bit more of this part of the image to confirm that but as it is it adds an intriguing element but the main structure is so incredible that it is right to place all the emphasis upon this part of the image, I'm pretty sure this would have been my approach too. It could be argued that there is a lack of contrast but again I think the structure is powerful that this low contrast approach works to good effect.

Thank you for your incredible entry Marcel, very fitting for the challenge.

The Tallest Inclined Tower in the world. Experience advisor
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Comment by PennyStreet:
Great perspective.

Pollination
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Comment by sidpixel:
Hello from the Critique club

An excellent insect study that only partially meets the challenge

You have taken good control of the technicals to produce a very competent macro of the butterfly̢۪s head so very well done from that aspect. I like the square crop but given the nature of the subject, a beautifully coloured butterfly, a normal landscape orientated crop would have allowed you to include more of the butterfly. However, the challenge brief is flora, which means unfortunately, as good as it is, it detracts from what should be the main theme ie., the flowers themselves. It̢۪s a shame this is not entered in a more appropriate challenge it would have done very well but it̢۪s excellent practice for such a future challenge.

So, having said all that I̢۪m now going to ignore the butterfly and concentrate on the flower side of the image and I like what I see, the foreground bud is nice and focussed with a less than perfect flower head adjacent that is also nicely focussed with interesting detail. The foreground bud is soft together with the distant flower heads in the background which I really like I think they complete the image.

Your technical control of the camera is consistently improving Marcel but do try to think carefully of the challenge brief in your choice of subject.

The Tallest Inclined Tower in the world. Experience advisor
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Comment by jim29028:
Montreal, love that city, good subject for the weather conditions