Flower power
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Comment by NikonJeb:
I love the way that Gay Pride parades are such bounteous places of photographic subject materiel! Nice shot, Mary!

A burst of blue
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Comment by bassbone:
the aqua color is very pretty in this image

A burst of blue
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Comment by Shadowi6:
Great colour and nice focus

Morning watercolors
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Comment by shamer:
This was among the first group of images I voted on when I first came to DPC last fall - I only voted it a 6 back then, but I was new & apparently afraid of using either end of the voting spectrum too much. ;~) (I just checked & I gave no 10s and only one 9...)

Looking at it now, I'm really blown away by the beautiful shades in the background & truly great bokeh that lens produces. You gotta love those fast primes! Congrats on a fine composition...

Curves of the here and now
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Comment by psart:
Beautiful tones appears golds and silvers. NICE. psart

Crime Scene Investigation
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Comment by bassbone:
interesting macro - not sure what I am looking

Crime Scene Investigation
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Comment by Agaricus:
Nice contrasts of color and shadow, but the red channel appears a bit over blown, lower right area.

Drive Thru Light
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Comment by Artifacts:
Positives:
Your perspective allows you to include a lot for viewers to see and think about in a nicely arranged composition that is image processed well.

Technicals:
Image done technically well and very appropritaely as a black and white for the subject. Sharpness good and choice of central focal point works well with the depth of field(DOF). Cropped out Mikky D's Arches nicely! High contrast treatment adds to its visual impact.

The interest objects in the composition are very closely cropped to the edge of the frame. The background building doesn't add much and acts as a viewer distraction.

The Challenge:
Finished 106/302 so positionally speaking it is well above average though the score indicates it is only slghtly above average. The scattering of low scores probably resulted from a couple fringe voters the didn't think it was religious enough for their taste or inappropriate. No biggie.

Suggestions:
This is a fairly long exposure at a high f/stop probably needed to get the distant sign in sharp focus so there is probably nothing you can do to soften the background buildings in-camera. But you might select and blur the background building more in post to lessen it's distracting effects.

Consider widening the composition slightly on the left, right and bottom to keep interest objects from being so close to the edges. Looks like you got framing to work with though you'll have to do some post processing to keep the added space from becoming a distraction itself.

A burst of blue
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Comment by c3real:
I'm impressed

Drive Thru Light
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Comment by Melethia:
Very well seen!