Tomato, Mozarella and Tuna.
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Comment by docjonny:
Beautiful summer.. love the shades and the details.. winner..

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Comment by markwiley:
This finished much higher in my ranking. Lovely image.

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Comment by snaffles:
Greetings from the Critique Club!

Wow, glad to see this came in the top ten. I've personally often wanted to get a shot like this but there just aren't enough small intact windmills..

On to this image.Great use of thirds, lighting is perfect for the shot with the low ISO, deep dof and perfect amount of timing to get that spin on the windmill. Too much either way could result in a blown-out or too-dark blurry mess. You caught it at just the right time, and more importantly at the right time for the subject, and with a tripod handy. Yay tripods! I hope people are taking notes!

The desat works perfectly as this is a shot about form, caught beautifully. In colour I would guess that this shot is relatively drab. The stillness of the grass and reeds around the water, the slender bowing and waving stalks of the taller rushes catching the wind and finally the culmination in the perfect wheel of a windmill blurred to speed. The rigidity of the supports just adds to the impact.

Overall a lovely shot and now a fave of mine too. Keep up the good work, please keep shooting and entering!

Susan

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Comment by ivale28:
Gorgeous photo, well balanced, love this

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Comment by Ammie:
Yeah great shot, so glad it did well!

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Comment by ursula:
Love this one! It was my favourite of the challenge. It is such a beautiful depiction of wind, and being out in it ... Really lovely. Congratulations!

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Comment by Transparant:

Originally posted by bergiekat: Love this! I like the simplicity of the subject matter and the three bands of different texture. They lead the eye to the windmill...the 'star'. Great shot!

Exactly what I thought. I'm sure this shot would not've worked as well without the water.

Originally posted by Ammie: Super, I can see the wind and the reflection is a nice touch

It was actually really hard to get the reflection, I had to get the timing JUST right and it took a lot of tries. I had a couple of photos with a better reflection, but the windmill was facing a different way. It took some time to get it right but Im happy with how everything worked out.

Originally posted by Neat: Well it's amazing how often it happens when you get to enter a photo of a place you've been to many times. So glad it was very well received this is 'fine art'

Thanks! And I was very excited to enter this as well. The timing of this "great" weather was very good.

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Comment by tanguera:
A nice, moody and artistic interpretation of the challenge.

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Comment by Neat:
Well it's amazing how often it happens when you get to enter a photo of a place you've been to many times. So glad it was very well received this is 'fine art'

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Comment by markwiley:
Very nicely done.