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Throngs of Parkas
Throngs of Parkas
wtanaka


Photograph Information Photographer's Comments
Challenge: Silhouettes IV (Basic Editing)
Camera: Canon EOS-350D Rebel XT
Location: Shangri-La Old Town, Yunnan Province, PRC
Date: Sep 14, 2007
Aperture: f/1.4
ISO: 1600
Shutter: 1/60
Galleries: Textures, Blur
Date Uploaded: Sep 18, 2007

 Chinese central television (CCTV) often puts on these concert extravaganzas. The prefecture celebrated its 50th anniversary this week, and probably for the first time ever in this small town, CCTV held a concert here, in front of the steps up to a newly built temple up on the hill in the old town.

It was raining pretty steadily for most of the duration of the concert but, this being an exciting and novel event, the teeming crowds toughed it out in colorful (but otherwise identical(!)) plastic parkas.

I took a lot of pictures of the sea of people, and I quite liked the way the mood of this shot ended up.

-- wtanaka

Statistics
Place: 238 out of 273
Avg (all users): 4.6310
Avg (commenters): 6.6000
Avg (participants): 4.5062
Avg (non-participants): 4.7264
Views since voting: 767
Views during voting: 273
Votes: 187
Comments: 8
Favorites: 1 (view)

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AuthorThread
 09/26/2007 04:53:53 PM
the best in the challenge for me.
 09/26/2007 12:38:40 PM
I was your 10. Don't worry about the low votes. They were due to your picture being sized too small and people not understanding what a silhouette is. The photo itself is brilliant.
 Comments Made During the Challenge
09/25/2007 11:49:48 PM
strange and fascinating photo.
 09/23/2007 09:55:59 PM
nice softening of color behind the silhouettes
 09/23/2007 09:18:07 PM
To much color in the picture, not enough shadow. Where is the silhouette?
 09/21/2007 08:15:51 PM
This is a little small for me. I can't quite figure it out. Marching towards assimilation?
 09/20/2007 01:43:56 PM
beautiful strong picture
 09/19/2007 11:41:51 PM
love it


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