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Challenge: Insects II (Minimal Editing I*)
Camera: Canon PowerShot S3 IS
Location: VT
Date: Apr 12, 2007
Aperture: f/4.0
ISO: 100
Shutter: 1/125
Galleries: Macro
Date Uploaded: Apr 12, 2007

 This is my 1st entry for a Challenge and insects are hard to come by @ this time of yr..The isolated black fly is soon to parish..

Statistics
Place: 139 out of 180
Avg (all users): 5.0773
Avg (commenters): 7.3750
Avg (participants): 4.8675
Avg (non-participants): 5.2342
Views since voting: 832
Views during voting: 341
Votes: 194
Comments: 11
Favorites: 1 (view)

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 07/31/2007 01:09:42 PM
Originally posted by jmritz:
It takes a special soul to see the meaning here. My brother Rick and I kept a little bee alive one winter. We found it moving so slow in mid Nov and brought it into the garage, had a box for it and every day we fed it sugar water. In the spring we brought him out on the deck and it took several times doing this before he moved forward and flew off. The feeling I got seeing him fly was well worth that long winter.


I believe you & your brother are a shoein for heaven John!
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 07/31/2007 10:44:59 AM
It takes a special soul to see the meaning here. My brother Rick and I kept a little bee alive one winter. We found it moving so slow in mid Nov and brought it into the garage, had a box for it and every day we fed it sugar water. In the spring we brought him out on the deck and it took several times doing this before he moved forward and flew off. The feeling I got seeing him fly was well worth that long winter.
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 04/23/2007 09:11:34 AM
I found this very 'moody" and different from the rest of the pack. The darkness works for this image, good job.
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
04/22/2007 08:16:08 PM
he looks a bit dark, but I like him against the glass, and the way the drops play with the background
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 04/21/2007 10:17:46 AM
great picture
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 04/20/2007 07:52:25 AM
kind of hard to see the fly here but you did get in close.
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 04/19/2007 08:58:10 AM
Wish you used the rule of thirds and did´t placed the fly dead center
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 04/18/2007 01:31:44 PM
Some might say this is just a too-centered image of a fly, but for me the whole composition projects a physical depth and a moodiness that I find very attractive. Even if this was just a spur of the moment "snapshot" for you and the composition is accidental, kudos for your "happy accident". It scores tops from me, but I suspect it won't score well with DPC voters overall - hopefully I will be wrong. Anyway, I like it very much. :)
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 04/17/2007 09:57:07 PM
I feel like I know this fly. 9 and the Posthumous Red Ribbon
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 04/17/2007 09:29:14 AM
Artful and not at all the typical bug on a flower shot. The focus is perfect. I love this.
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 04/16/2007 01:43:31 PM
Interesting composition but it's too dark/underexposed.
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