color blind
by charliebaker

Comment:
I am one of those red/green colorblind photographers you are speaking of, so I found this pretty comical. I found out I was colorblind as a child when I thought the grass was red :) Anyways, on a side note, the military often look for colorblind folk to be snipers because we have the ability to pick out camouflage due to the lack of blended colours that we see. I thought that was interesting.

Yashica Man
by annah

Comment:
I honestly thought this was going to be the taker of the blue, it surprises me to see it at #4, great shot.

Big Air
by nephoto

Comment:

Originally posted by postoakinversion: Originally posted by nephoto: Bite me, I already said it was an honest mistake. Was the 'honest mistake' entering the wrong date for when the photo was taken, or was it later trying to imply (in your comments) that the exif data was wrong? It's a good thing this wasn't taken on the day you originally claimed (April 3). It probably wouldn't have turned out as well because it was cloudy/overcast in Calgary that day. Anyway, it's a great photo regardless of the DQ

1) I didn't see how it could have been on the wrong date because I was sure when editing I took it on the day the challenge started so I thought EXIF.

2) A few minutes later I happened across my calendar, realized my mistake was my own fault, not the cameras, reported it here afterwards

3) I don't need any more comments on this photo

Big Air
by nephoto

Comment:

Originally posted by kenskid: The shot is great and did get the blue...but... ...if we don't follow those simple rules about "the time frame" of the photo, then we could all just go into our portfolio and grab the best image to meet the current challenge. I'd rather have everyone race to get the best shot during the week!

Bite me, I already said it was an honest mistake.

Big Air
by nephoto

Comment:
HAHAHA, you would think after seeing this happen a million times I would have known to make sure the exif data in my camera was correct, but I guess those are the breaks, ah well, shit happens :)

Dreaming of Deer
by Kivet

Comment:

Originally posted by CalliopeKel: Just goes to show you winning must be about luck rather than skill.

CalliopeKel lines up the shot straight, and fires it straight into nephoto's junk... Ouch :)

Big Air
by nephoto

Comment:

Originally posted by hsteg: Originally posted by LoudDog: Originally posted by petrakka: that russian lens was probably the zenitar which has good and bad copies out, but mostly its not too hot, but who cares about pixel peeping when u got the shot. Only thing that would make this better is a powerful fill flash and an underexposed sky, but its still pretty solid, congrats man. The lens could be the Peleng as well. Great photo, congrats on the ribbon! Peleng is so much wider. Unless he did some serious cropping, Id say its safe to assume its a peleng

No cropping was done to the photo, zenitar sounds about right. I'll find out for sure and post it.

Split Second
by Rikki

Comment:
nice finish and good shot, did you by chance draw the inspiration for the picture from this previous shot by terje?

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Winter Skin
by pikaboo

Comment:
good idea, the image quality itself comes off a little flat though.

Saturday's Passion
by bjallen

Comment:
good action shot but I think it would benefit more from a tigher crop.