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Comment by Lydia:
Oh. Dang.

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Comment by bohemka:
Quite beautiful. From a distance it's reminiscent of a sculpture of a female form, or an embrace.

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Comment by tryingtostayinfocus:
Thank you for all of your support and kind comments, they mean just as much if not more than a blue ribbon. Believe me when I say that I poured over and over my two CF cards desperately trying to find the originals but I have deleted them to make way for photos of a friend's baby that I took - now THOSE are the ones I don't delete until I DOUBLE know I have them downloaded. A blue ribbon , I can get again, but babies aren't little for long!

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Comment by pgirish007:
nooooooooooooooooooooooooooo.... :(

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Comment by tome:
What, where did the happy fella go :-( so sorry about this, I really love that mug! Tanguera is right, that's why I always keep my originals on the CF card until it's over. Needed them only a couple of times, but just in case of 40 DQs :-).

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Comment by tanguera:
Well, darn. But your attitude is perfect! Many more of these to come. And of course the lesson is: NEVER DELETE ANYTHING UNTIL THE CHALLENGE IS OVER.

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Comment by Rgarcia:
Sorry about the DQ, it is a wonderful image!!!

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Comment by markwiley:
Sorry about the DQ -- this is a fantastic image nonetheless.

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Comment by Ja-9:
So sorry to see this get Dq'd...take heart that if you do it once you can do it again...I got a Dq for one of my FS (no where near the top of the heap) and because I used Picasa at the time to download my photos it did something to my files that I was unaware of...Because of that incident I won't even use the computer's automatic download or Ps' automatic downloads I only directly download from Camera to Computer (corded not using a card reader as I'm afraid something will happen to my card and I've seen many here trying to use recovery software for their card readers) to my EHD's...(Also, I now only shoot in RAW)

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Comment by tryingtostayinfocus:

Originally posted by Neat: Yes I really liked this one, got my second highest vote, amazing how this held with blue tac, sorry it will be DQ, are you sure!

I think they (the site council) are just waiting for the 48 hour clock to count down. I only have the original DNG file (which even has a bit of the towel that I used to wipe up the tea spills with, still in it), but it is not the file that came out of the camera, so to speak. Rules are rules, I suppose. Yes, blue tak is my new best friend - that stuff rocks, and I've already used it in another shot.