A Strange Growth
by escapetooz

Comment by dankit:
Composition, contrast and colors are all great and the skin texture is really cool.

Exhilaration
by escapetooz

Comment by escapetooz:

Originally posted by yanko: Congrats on the honorable mention. Yeah, I never get why people think because such and such entered a shot here first that they are the author of said idea. Although to be fair this idea has been entered several times now recently so that's probably what fueled those comments. Not that any of it matters since you placed well.

Completely understood. After I entered and it was brought to my attention it was a real "Doh!" moment because I had a different shot I could have used. Any influence was completely subliminal. Actually I has seen this shot of Adam's dad's band from the 70s of them jumping and we were at the beach and I thought, why not? LOL... so the 70s were long before Librodo's.

A Strange Growth
by escapetooz

Comment by Caltrop:
7

Exhilaration
by escapetooz

Comment by yanko:
Congrats on the honorable mention. Yeah, I never get why people think because such and such entered a shot here first that they are the author of said idea. Although to be fair this idea has been entered several times now recently so that's probably what fueled those comments. Not that any of it matters since you placed well.

Exhilaration
by escapetooz

Comment by jimness:
top spot for me

Exhilaration
by escapetooz

Comment by jasonlprice:
This is really nice...I think I would have voted 10 instead of 9 if the horizon was level and the jumpers were a little more centered. That may not have been possible because of the bright sun however. Great photo.

Exhilaration
by escapetooz

Comment by dcl53:
Is there a message here, are there letter forms? Kept me curious. Well done.

Exhilaration
by escapetooz

Comment by bood:
Librodo has inspired many!

Exhilaration
by escapetooz

Comment by OmanOtter:
Love it! This truly fulfills the challenge of capturing an image that CELEBRATES life. There were some incredible images in this challenge that I would normally give a 10 to, but which lacked the celebrational aspect. Yours nailed it. I hope you ribbon. I'm giving you one of only three 10s I'm giving this time.

Exhilaration
by escapetooz

Comment by Artifacts:
Great concept, nice capture, water on left looks great, good shadows. This can be a very, very good image.

Imporvements: As I'm sure has been mentioned numerous times, you need to level the horizon. The water reflection on the right is overexposed and you want to do color processing to bring out dramatic color in the sky or convert image to standard black and white.