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Light of  Hope
Light of Hope
maguero


Photograph Information Photographer's Comments
Challenge: Best of 2006 (Advanced Editing V*)
Camera: Olympus SP-500UZ
Location: Monte verde Puntarenas, Costa Rica
Date: Dec 31, 2006
Aperture: f/5
ISO: ISO/100
Shutter: 1/640 seg
Galleries: Landscape, Panoramic
Date Uploaded: Jan 5, 2007

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Statistics
Place: 98 out of 712
Avg (all users): 6.4777
Avg (commenters): 7.4667
Avg (participants): 6.3420
Avg (non-participants): 6.8876
Views since voting: 1638
Views during voting: 536
Votes: 358
Comments: 33
Favorites: 5 (view)


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01/26/2007 02:58:17 AM
Congratulations
IMO should have scored better but there were so many awersome pictures in this challenge
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01/26/2007 01:20:42 AM
Congratulations on your placing and your new personal best!!! This is a great shot and deserved even higher.
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
01/25/2007 11:14:06 PM
Beautiful capture of the sunbeam and lighting of the green hills. For me it would be stronger if it were cropped down from the top just to the edge of where the sunbeam spilled out of the clouds and cropped from the left to almost that same point. That would eliminate the huge blown spot and a lot of the very dark negative space on the bottom left. If the tree on the closest ridge could have had just a little more light this would have been a 10. So it's just a 9. ;) Congrats.
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01/25/2007 09:03:47 PM
A beautiful reward for a year worth of shooting, the lighting is of course, spectacular, good luck in the challenge, 10
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01/25/2007 01:24:02 PM
Love the way you capture the light.
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01/25/2007 10:31:48 AM
Nice countryside. Maybe could have included less of the sky to avoid that distracting blown out patch at the top.
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01/25/2007 09:26:26 AM
Nice! cropping out the top inch lets my eyes focus on the beautifully highlighted hilltops.
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01/25/2007 01:13:24 AM
This is heavenly, pardon the pun.
There are those rare moments in life we get experience for but a mere few seconds, but preserved here, forever.
Superb timing.
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01/24/2007 11:44:34 PM
gorgeous. hope it's subtlety isn't lost in this crowded challenge.
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01/23/2007 03:17:01 PM
Stunning photo, perfect timing, beautiful scene.
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01/21/2007 07:51:53 AM
Wow, awesome find! But I think your should have lightened several parts (for example the foreground) more up during postprocessing.
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01/20/2007 07:05:29 PM
WOW!
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01/19/2007 02:29:24 PM
Wow, looks unreal.
I think it works really well, except i don't like the dead space to the left, and feel that if you could have shifted your perspective further right and possibly given it a panoramic crop it would be outstanding.
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01/18/2007 07:25:17 PM
The sun ray capture onto the home is neat. good shot.
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01/18/2007 07:07:59 PM
So cool!! Awesome capture and I love the greens. Back to bump you up to 8.
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01/18/2007 05:01:17 PM
This is incredible - should be on the first page. Wonderful light!
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01/17/2007 10:24:25 AM
I love this shot!! The mood and lighting are great.
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01/16/2007 12:23:40 PM
Amazing capture of the ray, that is, of course, assuming it was natural and not photoshopped. I like the rolling hills
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01/16/2007 08:20:29 AM
i love how the light is hitting the land here. not much you could do about nature, but what a stronger shot it would be if that shaft of light hit the tree in the foreground. it would probably help to crop a bit of that blown out sky
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01/16/2007 07:24:14 AM
I love moments like this. 9
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01/16/2007 12:16:52 AM
Love that sky....
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01/15/2007 08:34:33 PM
Beautiful
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01/15/2007 06:51:21 PM
cool light capture! I wish the beam was on something a bit more interesting.
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01/15/2007 11:38:33 AM
Ooohh, please crop a bit off the top of this lovely capture.
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01/15/2007 08:08:16 AM
wow, that's pretty much insane. 8
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01/13/2007 10:02:49 PM
LOL God's favorite shed.
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01/13/2007 04:53:37 AM
10
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01/12/2007 04:55:45 PM
The ray of light is beautiful, but the overexposure ruins the picture completely. You should invest in a graduated ND filter.
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01/12/2007 04:09:24 PM
Beautiful. 7
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01/12/2007 12:04:14 PM
WOW.
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01/12/2007 10:01:05 AM
great great. fantastic catch ! i don't care about too dark or too bright areas ... i like it. 9
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01/12/2007 08:26:04 AM
Beautiful capture 10
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01/12/2007 02:41:50 AM
Lovely, great lighting, wonderful highlights bringing out the vibrant greens! 9
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