Sheepish
by Pixelstate

Comment by Marjo:
Congratulations. A great find and capture!
(I agree with F-32 that it looks like a llama.)

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Comment by totaldis:
i knew this was the winner, great shot

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Comment by scalvert:
Great find- my favorite of the challenge. I'm glad your photo got the recognition it deserved. Congrats on your blue!

Message edited by author 2005-01-03 10:13:13.

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by Pixelstate

Comment by L1:
Congrats Chris! This was one of my faves! :o)

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Comment by hopper:
congratulations Chris

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Comment by Pixelstate:
Hi All,

Thank you very much for voting for my 'sheep'

I will have to admit to being quite lucky in finding this shot. I had spent a while wondering around trying to see 'faces' in various trees and bushes around my town but to no avail. In the end I got lucky closer to home (and closer to the ground!) with this macro. You may notice that it is far from the ideal photograph, hand-held at ISO 800 with a DOF that is just a little too shallow, I noticed this too during post-production but unfortunately the sun had melted away the 'fleece' by this time and I couldn't re-take!

The picture was taken in Canon RAW format and I adjusted the contrast and sharpness in PS. The image needed rotating by 30 degrees counter clockwise and I used a little dodge and burn to help accentuate the 'eye'

PS/ My wife says the only reason that I got the winning entry was because everyone else was busy spending time with their families at Christmas. (which probably has an element of truth!)

Wishing all DPCers a Happy New Year.

Chris

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by Pixelstate

Comment by brianlh:
ooh wow - nice one! makes me wonder if you just came across it, or perhaps have noticed this before. congrats on the blue!

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Comment by arbil14:
hahaha....congrats on this one....

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Comment by just-married:
WOW! I didn't vote or view these images because time was so short, but this is amazing! Great find, and nicely captured!

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Comment by rmtm333:
Congrats...This was one of my highest rated images...Wonderful job!!!