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fotodudeComment by amber: Hi from the Critique Club!
Your image is totally over processed and doesn't qualify as a photograph at all......nah...just kidding:))
Your title does not meet the criteria of the challenge and should have been disqualified.....nah...just kidding:)
You really shot yourself in the foot with the title, what were you thinking?:)) That said, I've sat here for five minutes trying to think of an alternative, and it ain't easy: Deadly Peruvian Cyclist? Doppelganger President Cycles? You knew the DNMCers would hound you down and beat you with celery for that title, didn't you, but you did it anyway.
And I'm glad you did, as it's a breath of fresh air in a room full of smokers. Many of us I'm sure vote in a trance like state, automatically hitting the five button as if it were a form of therapy. But now and again we get woken up by an image that dares to challenge the status quo and says 'stuff it' to the safe route, I'm going to be ME! Hell, even your commenters are worried FOR you about how this would go down with voters!!! Did you die a horrible death? Did you develop leprosy? Did your world collapse? Noooooooooo! You took at risk at being creative and in my book you came out a winner inspite of the votes. Well done you!
There are lovely tones and contrast in this image; pure whites, pure blacks and that wonderful shade of grey.
There is plenty of detail despite the high key and those shadows are fantastic.
His expression shows committment and effort. The expanse of white around him gives him space to move in and out of and plenty of room for text (The Lance Armstrong Story?)
A wonderful, fresh, graphic image.
Message edited by author 2006-05-19 14:15:18. 
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