circumnavigate the sky, embrace of branches
by skewsme

Comment by bvy:
Wonderful high key study.

Gone Kayaking
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Comment by caba:
Best in show award, congrats, great story telling

river damsel
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Comment by JuliBoc:
Love the damsel fly in the lower center.

Gone Kayaking
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Comment by RyanW:
Great job conveying the determination in this picture :)

Gone Kayaking
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Comment by Giles:
gone kayaking or thrown themselves in the lake.... two ways to look at it maybe, doesnt scream feel good at me,very bright highlights on the left hand foliage and detail seems very soft.

Gone Kayaking
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Comment by Skip:
One of my favorite type of newspaper assignments is to capture "wild art", which is defined as "Stand-Alone, Feature Shot, Enterprise art are found moments that are intended to be realistic slices of everyday life" (definition taken from this glossary). These are typically images that caption themselves, not needing a lot of words to get their point across. For this challenge, I'm scoring images as whether I'd like to see them on the front page of a paper as feel good wild art. If I don't think they would make the paper, I'm then asking myself, "does it make me feel good?" If it doesn't do much for me, well then, oh well...

Nicely done! One of my top picks. It might not make the front page of the A1, but it has a place somewhere.

river damsel
by skewsme

Comment by tanguera:
Very cool colors

Z.........................................onkey
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Comment by Melethia:
Clever! I forget what these little guys are called. Odd looking but lovely in their own way!

river damsel
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Comment by blindjustice:
Beautiful work. One of the prettiest and most pleasing of the bunch.

river damsel
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Comment by Skip:
one of my top picks. that being said, i would have cropped out the damsel altogether. the image is perfectly lovely without its distraction. given the nature of this challenge, i scored based on what i would enjoy seeing on my wall, and this is beautiful.