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Winter Blues
Winter Blues
benfica


Photograph Information Photographer's Comments
Challenge: Hidden Gem -- 1,000th Challenge! (Advanced Editing VII*)
Camera: Canon EOS-1000D Rebel XS
Lens: Tamron SP AF 28-75mm f/2.8 XR Di for Canon
Location: Vancouver
Date: Mar 7, 2009
Aperture: f/11
ISO: 400
Shutter: 30
Galleries: Cityscape, Landscape
Date Uploaded: Mar 7, 2009

 Taken from Stanley Park on the Saturday before the Challenge.

Statistics
Place: 393 out of 1129
Avg (all users): 5.8078
Avg (commenters): 6.2542
Avg (participants): 5.7735
Avg (non-participants): 6.0000
Views since voting: 877
Views during voting: 663
Votes: 489
Comments: 63
Favorites: 0

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 Comments Made During the Challenge
03/17/2009 09:54:33 PM
Over on the lights.
 03/17/2009 07:54:43 PM
Beautiful shot.
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 03/17/2009 05:46:59 PM
Very good job on getting the water as well as the lighting on the bridge, city and top of the hill.
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 03/17/2009 05:38:53 PM
Gorgeous! I would love winters if they always looked like this.
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 03/17/2009 01:11:11 PM
I like how white the lights are in this, against the blacks and blues it looks really nice.
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 03/17/2009 07:06:39 AM
Lovely night scape.
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 03/16/2009 10:21:35 PM
Nice, but would have been better with a tighter crop. That rock or whatever low in the foreground is distracting.
 03/16/2009 09:59:35 PM
Love the moon peeping out from behind the hills. Beautiful blues.
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 03/16/2009 09:50:06 PM
seems off balanced
 03/16/2009 05:26:14 PM
not sure border helps this. nicely done.
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 03/16/2009 04:09:08 PM
I like your choice of colour tones. Is that lightning up on the hills?
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 03/16/2009 03:23:10 PM
I love the color and tone of this.
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 03/16/2009 02:31:27 PM
Smooth as silk. i hit you with a 7 first time thru and bumped you up to 9 while beginning the comments. I love the winter blues that you've captured, so sleek and stunning.
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 03/16/2009 01:58:53 PM
A lot of dark regions in this image.. may be crop it a little to use more of the frame ?
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 03/16/2009 01:11:19 PM
Returning to comment.....

This is an excellent night shot! Love the cool blue tones!
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 03/16/2009 03:42:39 AM
great night scape
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 03/16/2009 03:12:48 AM
nice blues and the bridge lite really sets off the image
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 03/15/2009 10:45:36 PM
The tones here are outstanding, I just wish you'd filled the frame a little more with your subject.
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 03/15/2009 09:21:19 PM
I like the idea however there is a lot of open water taking up roughly half the image. A lower vantage point would allow the narrowing of the space between the foreground rock and the cityscape.
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 03/15/2009 10:08:55 AM
Beautiful blues. A bit too much negative space at the bottom for my tastes.
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 03/15/2009 09:13:57 AM
unique night shot. the tones are nice.7
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 03/15/2009 05:28:28 AM
very nice
6
brano
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 03/14/2009 11:10:53 PM
nice effort, but the top, bottom and left of this picture are meaningless and don't contribute to the final image. The rock at the bottom might have done something if it was more clearly visible but as it is, this suffers from having a lot of wasted space on the photo.
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 03/14/2009 10:53:33 PM
Left side seems to fade a bit.
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 03/14/2009 09:47:16 PM
The blue tone to this image is beautiful
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 03/14/2009 02:55:00 PM
for me, cropping this square might have made an even more dramatic image jmo
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 03/14/2009 02:53:36 PM
I am not sure if I like this kind of frame here.
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 03/14/2009 01:24:28 PM
Very nice work
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 03/14/2009 01:03:50 PM
A nice wintry feel to it. The blue cast works well
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 03/14/2009 12:11:57 PM
Beautiful!
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 03/14/2009 09:33:11 AM
Nice cold looking night photo. Wonderful blues in especially the water.
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 03/14/2009 12:39:53 AM
Pretty!
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 03/13/2009 11:56:49 PM
stunning!
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 03/13/2009 10:07:17 PM
Nice blue tones.
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 03/13/2009 07:52:33 PM
beautifully white lit city, and I like the way the bridge lights reflect on the waterm nice hue
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 03/13/2009 06:33:28 PM
Love the moonrise and the strung-pearl lights on the bridge.
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 03/13/2009 06:11:52 PM
Beautifully done. I even like the frame here (and I usually don't think they enhance the image). The starkness of it... yet still colored, instead of BW, is beautiful.

Not voting yet.
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 03/13/2009 03:23:21 PM
I'm hoping to leave comments on as many photo's in this challenge as possible... out of (currently) 1124 images, I gave 31 of them a 9. Your image was one of those 31.

There are quite a few "bridge at night" shots, many incorporating sunsets. Yours is a much cooler approach, the water is beautifully lit, as is the sky. I can't even begin to imagine how hard this photo was to take and "get right" as you have clearly done. This would look great on my wall!

Good luck for a strong finish in this challenge.
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 03/13/2009 02:47:41 PM
Like the lights and just a touch of blue here looks real pretty.
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 03/13/2009 02:44:50 PM
really well done ... the midnight blue tones are perfect here ...
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 03/13/2009 02:32:40 PM
Great shot, well processed
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 03/13/2009 11:41:15 AM
wow, this is beautiful
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 03/13/2009 10:49:24 AM
Lovely view. This looks like San Francisco.
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 03/13/2009 10:38:23 AM
Great night shot, good choice of color.
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 03/13/2009 06:22:08 AM
The white light through out the shot gives it that wintery look. Nice job.
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 03/13/2009 04:03:42 AM
great night shot, I like the calmness and glow from the water
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 03/13/2009 03:47:33 AM
Making the bridge not take up the whole frame is good as it makes us feel the "blues" more as the city seems wrapped up in winter
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 03/13/2009 03:37:40 AM
the framereally adds it
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 03/13/2009 03:01:04 AM
Very pleasing to the eye and I do like the effect of this border.
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 03/12/2009 11:51:29 PM
Nice setting nicely captured.
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 03/12/2009 07:51:08 PM
Good night pic.
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 03/12/2009 04:16:13 PM
As smooth as silk. Lovely.
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 03/12/2009 04:00:01 PM
Nice night scape. The coloring is very pretty.
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 03/12/2009 10:35:30 AM
neat colors
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 03/12/2009 08:42:43 AM
I like these pictures in blues like this. I like the rock in the foreground to.
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 03/12/2009 12:01:34 AM
pretty night scene
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 03/11/2009 09:49:31 PM
is that lighting in the far background? nice reflection in the lake ... and blue feel to the photo is really nice .. i wish the bridge was just a tad sharper ... o and the rock down at the bottom (middle) ... i like that nice touch
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 03/11/2009 06:32:33 PM
Well done night shot,does well in blue.
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 03/11/2009 04:54:37 PM
pretty pretty, such tranquil colors and tones
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 03/11/2009 03:43:57 PM
Nice blue tones.
The rock in the foreground. It balances the composition and provides 'depth' to this photo.
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 03/11/2009 12:18:34 PM
i like the light, and composition. nice shot
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 03/11/2009 10:57:07 AM
seems to be slightly OOF (unstable tripod?). Also, i find the composition two half-and-half. The symmetric borders enhance this impression.
 03/11/2009 08:04:23 AM
I think this one's a bit to dark. The bridge is disappearing in the black nothing to the left.


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