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Comment by mitalapo:
beautiful (I feel there is something here beyond the composition and color pallette)

Hand google map
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Comment by Zita:
With great interest I opened your submission. Why with great interest? Because I, too, had entered not one but two entries of palm lines. After all they are indicative (leading) lines are they not?

Alas, I withdrew both before the challenged flipped to the voting mode. The reasons I withdrew both are the same I see in this submission: self-photographed hands do not seem to show well. Both shots I prepared for entry made the mounts of my hands look like hams! I'm sure it was a matter of PoV but it was most unflattering. Secondly, the coloring - even in B&W and/or with Topaz effects applied - the skin looked cadaverous. Then, in my circumstance, the partially desaturated one was too soft. While your image is very sharp, unfortunately, it bears similar defects of my abandoned shots: PoV aberrations and coloring.

As painful as it is to receive a vote of one, it is more painful to assign a vote of one. One is what I am voting on this photo. I hope I have explained sufficiently the reason for this low score and would invite you to contact me after the voting is finished if you wish to plumb my reasoning further. Sorry.

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Comment by ubique:
Not my cup of tea and yet, and yet ... it's wonderful, and just goes to show that I know nothing. Or what I think I know is nothing, and what I don't know is something! Confused?

It's a lovely, deeply satisfying photograph. Absolutely perfect composition, so elegantly judged that it's quite unimpeachable on that score. The colours are glorious. And the contrast (I mean the figurative contrast, not the photographic one) between the delicate spray of the leaves and the bluntness of the streaked wall is ... no other or lesser word will do ... beautiful. I also like very much the suggestion of a distant skyline beyond the wall: it looks like a ruined or ravaged place over there, at least in my imagination, and that gives context to the foreground wall. Interesting (and humbling) photograph that I admire very much. Thank you.

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Comment by Jules1x:
I love the brightness of the yellow leaves against the muted colors of the wall. They contrast and yet complement.

...as time goes by...
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Comment by Melethia:
Nice!! Keep this up year after year.

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Comment by skewsme:
Bold use of topaz restyle or cross-processing? Whatever, I still like it.

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Comment by hihosilver:
A lovely image...elegant and soft with hint of Asian flavor...like a hanging scroll.

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Comment by posthumous:
a good example of photo-as-object and a sophisticated sort of eye candy, with complementary colors... and even a signature on the lower right, like a Japanese print.

...as time goes by...
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Comment by PennyStreet:
adorable - congrats!

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Comment by nam:
Eventually, spring comes everywhere. And when it does, light transforms even concrete.