king of the hill
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Comment by jmritz:
always wondered what that felt like. the light so nice

king of the hill
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Comment by Lydia:
Why are his eyes closed? Other than the challenge topic, there's no reason for them to be closed... and it makes an otherwise wonderfully-done image lesser for it, IMO.

Camelot
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Comment by Lydia:
I don't understand this merge.

ubike
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Comment by sidpixel:
*Hello from Sid and the Critique Club*

First impressions are of an appealing subject reasonably well captured that I hope fits the challenge.

As a keen cycling enthusiast I am always attracted to bikes particularly action shots. Your panning action has captured the cyclist nice and sharp and introduced a little motion into the background. This is where the problem lies for me, because of the high shutter speed there is not enough motion blur in the background it looks more like camera shake, thereby significantly reducing the appeal of the shot.

The other big problem is that you have a dark clothed rider caught in the dark shadow of a tree and with the shadow unfortunately falling right across his face, probably the most important part of the image, the part where we can identify with the moment he is experiencing through his facial expression. Also the composition, I'm not sure why you feel the portrait orientation works better than landscape but I am all for a non-standard approach as long as it works. Because of the size of the rider and the amount of space he has left to ride into it probably just about works.

'I hope it fits the challenge', I am unable to judge this as I don't know what Ubique's philosophy is but I do like his comment, perhaps I am missing an important clue to that in his comment? I have followed the challenge description which has a link to a forum thread where I was hoping to learn more about his philosophy and try to work out whether this does fit the challenge, with 3760 comments to review I'm afraid life is just far too short, sorry.

all this useless beauty
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Comment by Pretzel:
Seems to be overexposed? Harsh on the eyes... :(

Chopin's Piano Sonata No. 1 in C minor, Op. 4: iv, Presto
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Comment by sidpixel:
*Hello from Sid and the Critique Club*

My first impressions are of a poorly executed image that does not the challenge

I'm now looking at your image and really trying to appreciate it and fit it to the challenge, perhaps because I am not familiar with the music and am not, as you suggest, able to play it while I look I still cannot alter my first impressions. Unfortunately, I cannot find anything here that appeals to me so I don't want to rub salt into the wound by detailing everything about it I don't like but its basicly everything, I'm afraid I have to agree with your first commenter.

So, what am I missing about this that holds such appeal to your three other commenters? It now intrigues enormously because I don't know what I don't know. What are these people able to see in it that I am completely blind to? I wish I knew. I would be very grateful to hear anything you or your commenters or anyone else can enlighten me with in order to help me more fully understand and appreciate this image. Please Sid.

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Comment by bohemka:
Delicate and dreamy. I'll stay here.

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Comment by grahamgator:
Lovely.

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Comment by tnun:
I had a boyfriend. That song. this makes me completely forget what the challenge was.

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Comment by streetpigeon:
Very pretty.