tir na nog
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Comment by J-Me:
Oooooo....LOVE this one!!!! GREAT!

tir na nog
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Comment by pjotre7:
Wonderful work, I don't know what you did with this but I sure hope it fits basic challenge rules. Compliments

Zen Equivalence
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Comment by nmrmak:
This photo scored slightly worse with me because there is some grain and a distracting dark spot near the image center (vertical center, slightly to the right).

tir na nog
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Comment by BrianR:
not my personal type of photography, well done and very modern.

Balloonworld
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Comment by tnun:
Just so delightful. Who knew an airhead had such thoughts.

Balloonworld
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Comment by Melethia:
All I could think of when I saw this was "if the Egyptians had balloons..." Really quite lovely. I visited with this one for awhile.

Zen Equivalence
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Comment by cowboy221977:
looks out of focus and really not very interesting..

Fencing out the Fish
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Comment by amateurboi:
Greetings from the Critique Club

I had not seen this image whilst voting. So this is infact the first time I am seeing this photo. This is out of ordinary in more than one ways. One is being your subject "Fence in Water". Second being artistic in a way out of ordinary. I like your bit of post-processing in this one. The blue adds a lot of artistic value to this.

It is indeed mis-fortunate that despite the artistic value of this photo, this was placed 120 out of 121. This is primarily due to the way normal voters conceive your photos to be different from their tastes.

Overall, I like this photo quite a lot, and maybe if seen during voting, I would have given it a 7.

If you would like to discuss this further, please feel free to revert back by PM or Email.

Regards
Midhun

Balloonworld
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Comment by Louis:
There's a "pre-existing art" brou-ha-ha in the forums right now, and I'm happy to give this a 7 for its many fine qualities, including the light-hearted and child-like pre-existing art.

love triangle
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Comment by Citadel:
Greetings from the Critique Club!

As previous commenters have indicated the image is pretty soft as you probably already know. This likely due to the aggressive cropping you did. With an image like this I think you can say its just okay ...or
...work with what you have. Its a soft image. Maybe try to actually soften it even more to make it more abstract yet keeping the shapes of the birds recognizable. You could even just blur every but the birds to give the appearance of sharpness to them.

Judging from the sky it was fairly overcast though you shot at the right time or day (either early morning or just before dusk). Maybe changing the white balance would have warmed up the image making this more inviting and working with the love bird theme you were working for.

I think that to get the strong silhouette you were going for you needed to get closer so you wouldn't need to crop and your focus would have been better. To get closer and have all three birds in the frame would have required patience and a little luck.

In terms of the challenge I think this one was pretty open so your image certainly met the challenge pretty well and wasn't a shoe horn in any sense.