Icy Blue Finger of Winter
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Comment by h2:
Congrats on your 5th, Peter, very cool shot and well deserved HM!

Icy Blue Finger of Winter
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Comment by jonfrommk:
Brilliant image that is wonderful in its simplicity. Great composition and the duotone works really well. Outstanding job avoiding reflection or glare from the ice

Congratulations on the 5th place finish - a tremendous start to the year

Icy Blue Finger of Winter
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Comment by Charlene:
This is almost as eerie as the photo it knocked off your front page. What a great capture, love the textures in the single subject. Congratulations on another wonderful image.

Stillness After the Snow
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Comment by Rgarcia:
It is a great image to begin with, but it is too overprocessed to my taste.

Icy Blue Finger of Winter
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Comment by colorcarnival:
I love the clarity of the focus and the smooth and cool blue background.

Icy Blue Finger of Winter
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Comment by TLL061:
LOVE THE LIGHTING 7

Stillness After the Snow
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Comment by jonfrommk:
5.71? Your having a laugh, in a free study when there were so many great landscapes I thought that this beat the vast majority of them into a cocked hat

Brilliant reflection and I love the cloud touching the top of the mountain

Just to prove that you can never please all the people all the time I thought the high contrast really gave the shot some bite and feel it would have lost something without it

Stillness After the Snow
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Comment by jmritz:
HDR is like an emotional attachment and I guess some don't care much for it. But I like this one and gave it a 6.

Carving Turns in Tandem
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Comment by loseme:
Great shot. I wish there was just one more in the middle to balance the shot. The snow is extremely clean!

Icy Blue Finger of Winter
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Comment by jameskindt:
Nice! Great use of light!