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Comment by Lydia:
7 from me. Love how you've filled the frame... and it's interesting and beautiful!

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Comment by Pretzel:
Quite lovely!

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Comment by greigner:
What crazy cool textures! And color too. Love how the bright center draws your focus. A top finisher.

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

An appealing image that is assumed to meet the challenge.

A lovely image of a lovely location, your exposure is spot on you have got good detail throughout though there is some tendency to blocking in the shadows I like the frame that it forms within the image, it is also much more preferable than blown highlights that would have resulted in trying to retain the detail. There are some amazing colours and textures here what an amazing location. There are many similar shots that I have seen, this ranks up there amongst the better ones, well done Janine, Sid

Eglise du Dome Church at the Hotel des Invalides
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Comment by sidpixel:
*Hello from Sid and the Critique Club*

Congratulations on your ribbon for this appealing image that fulfils the challenge brief.

Its certainly a beautiful structure, not hard to imagine why it appears to have inspired so many in their subsequent designs, I would imagine it must be quite something to see at first hand. Its hard to conceive of the amount of effort that has gone into making something as awesome as this. This is the sort of image that cries out pure symmetry but I'm quite glad that you decided against that, I quite like the end result, though it does mean that we don't get to see enough of the two paintings on this side of the structure. If you had decided to go for total symmetry a square crop would have been a perfect option.

This would have been a difficult exposure but I think you made a good job of it, I can live with the overexposure of the windows in favour of sufficient light in the shadows without resorting to HDR. Anyway, you obviously did right for the voters here, well done Janine.

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Comment by Lydia:
I, also, thought this was Ursula.

You should be greatly complimented, Janine! :D

I gave this a 7. And I usually hate abstractions. :D

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Comment by jomari:
Congratulations, Janine! As I said before, gorgeous!

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Comment by ace flyman:
Nice!!..Congrats

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Comment by grahamgator:
Beautifully done Janine; congrats.

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Comment by pearlseyes:
Very nice to see an abstract photo make front page, especially in a Free Study. May I ask what the subject is? Water?