Shades of Purple
by KarenNfld

Comment:
probably a bit vibrant for the challenge i think.

Sense of Nature's Power.
by capretta

Comment:
Thanks all, no doubt ill spend the next 4 or so years on dpc trying to get another photo to score over 6 lol.. as to the question of whether i got wet, well not really, but all my gear got covered in salt spray so i spent the afternoon cleaning. :)

Sense of Nature's Power.
by capretta

Comment:
well you guys had an advantage with the fireworks challenge, we just need a kangaroo challenge now to knock those squirrels off the front page!

Ouch! Sharp!
by banmorn

Comment:
oh, disappointed! i gave this one an 8, well done dude.

Grab Hold
by SunnyHillsCir

Comment:
i thought very highly of this shot, thought it portrayed the sense of touch very well indeed!

Thunder
by Lydia

Comment:
nice work!

Sense of Tranquility
by MargaretNet

Comment:
damn! :D i spent the week hoping that maybe, just maybe 7.11 would be enough for first! well if im gonna get pipped, its best done by margaretN! well done!

The Sense of Foreboding
by Stagolee

Comment:
haha im not the only australian to take advantage of the la nina swells i see! nice work!

Sense of Nature's Power.
by capretta

Comment:
Well this has been a most welcome distraction, thanks everyone! With a new baby, death in the family, and moving 2 houses at once i really needed something to take my mind off it all!

I realise that the subject as opposed to my technique was the real winner here, the foreground was a problem for me too, but i never thought to put my 480ex on. Due to the heavy spray the original photo was a little white and washed out, so i bumped the curves and saturation. I had put the camera on spot metering because the breakwall (the boxes with the straps!) kept on exposing ok but blowing out the waves completely.

A minor mention goes out to posthumous whose brusque/rude correction of my grammar in an earlier challenge irritated me to the point of getting on the web and relearning what i had forgotten about singular possessive apostrophes. I hereby present to him the inaugural Punctuation Pedant Pendant. :P

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ESP
by Sirashley

Comment:
i really liked the idea of this shot, just wished it was a little more contrasty, maybe a little less noisy?