Sun Break
by Zoomdak

Comment:
Another view of God's glory here. This one won the shutterbugz contest. Just realized today that's the same location - truly amazing.

Four for the wall
by mrorange002

Comment:
One of my favourites of the challenge, congrats on the 4th place!

Like a llama...or an Emu
by Pedro

Comment:
Congratulations Pedro, excellent catch and well diserved ribbon!

Framed
by ivash

Comment:

Originally posted by ivash: I must say - I've had lower expectations for this one.

O yea... why lower expectations? Mainly because this particular picture (that ribboned) in a way, is not an original. Basically, I haven't taken this shot because of the title of the challenge, I kind of recycled it.

I know the title 'Framed' is a bit obvious, but that was the name of the original and I decided to go with it.

PS
Sorry about my English skills, still thinking in Croatian :)

Sun Break
by Zoomdak

Comment:
Congratulations on the blue, more then deserved, this one is breath taking.
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Framed
by ivash

Comment:
350 votes?! I'm amazed... Thank you for your votes and comments!

I must say - I've had lower expectations for this one. Why? Well, there is a little story behind it and maybe some of you might find it interesting or useful.
This particular picture is in fact a recreation of one of my earlier photos. The original photo was taken about 6 months ago, won a few contests and was proudly retired. Those contests had nothing to do with framing or any other theme, just an ordinary POTD contests.
Then, I saw 'Framing' contest on DPC... I remembered the retired photo and decided to repeat the shooting session, not only to follow the DPC rules, but to find out what has changed in 6 months regarding my shooting skills and such... The important thing was not to look at the original photo because that would have killed the experiment. However, as I had found out later, there was a downside to this - two pictures were not taken at the same time of the day (nor the same time of the year for that matter).
So... went on the location, took a few shots, picked one picture, cropped it, adjusted levels and shadow/highlight ratio, played with curves, resized the edited picture and here we are.
Any improvement in 6 months? That's for you to judge, here's the older picture.

Glimpse
by ivash

Comment:
It's been awhile since my last challenge, but I knew it was going to be fun :) Thanks everybody!

A Civilized One
by jjbeguin

Comment:
Excellent perspective and sharpness. Engaging image. The only thing is... it looks a bit tilted to the right, but that's easy to correct, so - one of my top picks

Large, Small or Both?
by shutterbud

Comment:
Maybe a bit too shallow DOF, but still my top pick

Adam's Choice
by artvet

Comment:
Ahm... I KNOW I should have taken an apple :)
Very good picture, I wouldn't change a thing