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the alpha dandelion
the alpha dandelion
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Challenge: Hidden Gem -- 1,000th Challenge! (Advanced Editing VII*)
Camera: Canon EOS-400D Rebel XTi
Lens: Canon EF-S 17-85mm f/4-5.6 IS USM
Location: Back yard
Date: Dec 31, 2008
Aperture: f4
ISO: 400
Shutter: 1/800sec
Galleries: Macro, Action
Date Uploaded: Mar 8, 2009

 Taken in the back yard during a sudden summer shower. Hand held using natural light only. Cropped, adjusted levels, hue/saturation, sharpened, noise and re sized.

Statistics
Place: 360 out of 1129
Avg (all users): 5.8554
Avg (commenters): 6.6400
Avg (participants): 5.8107
Avg (non-participants): 6.1039
Views since voting: 735
Views during voting: 671
Votes: 505
Comments: 53
Favorites: 0

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03/17/2009 08:21:24 PM
Beautiful shot.
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 03/17/2009 05:44:53 PM
Amazing detail and clarity. Very nicely done! 7
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 03/17/2009 03:21:17 PM
lveoly background, nice and bold. good detail in the flower-9
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 03/17/2009 02:45:11 PM
Love the clarity. an d the sharpness... plus great bokeh
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 03/17/2009 12:57:39 PM
a sense of motion not of what would move but of what doesnt
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 03/17/2009 12:25:33 PM
I like the motion of this shot but it still has clarity. Nice.
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 03/17/2009 11:47:18 AM
Nice composition and bokeh.
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 03/16/2009 09:29:37 PM
very good DOF here
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 03/16/2009 02:24:48 PM
Good shot. Nice focus and crop.
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 03/16/2009 11:30:38 AM
Beautiful image.
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 03/16/2009 07:57:24 AM
So very sharp. This is lovely - in composition, sense of movement, colour and life.
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 03/15/2009 10:15:32 PM
What a great sense of motion you captured.
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 03/15/2009 09:31:16 PM
i like the motion
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 03/15/2009 08:23:20 PM
Big Smile!
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 03/15/2009 06:34:09 PM
I love the water droplets. Very neat capture.
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 03/15/2009 05:57:47 PM
great details
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 03/15/2009 02:36:11 PM
Great detail and composition. Is that rain falling in the top left?
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 03/15/2009 12:26:31 PM
Good DOF, the colors look great and the image is nice and sharp.
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 03/15/2009 12:02:26 PM
Slightly over sharpened, but a neat composition with the rainfall.
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 03/15/2009 11:57:09 AM
Very nice shot. Love the compostion and dof
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 03/15/2009 10:29:12 AM
Nice dandelions. It's as if the wind is blowing all seeds away.
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 03/15/2009 05:48:12 AM
nice
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 03/15/2009 12:53:14 AM
Such colours, fantastic composition/use of negative space. Excellent work. Best of luck.
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 03/14/2009 11:24:58 PM
Voted earlier coming back to leave comments. Wow, I love the very sharp details of the water laced dandelion. I can see all the pristine white spokes and the waterdrops that have landed on them. The bokeh really works beautifully for it allow the dandelion in the forefront to really pop off the springtime greens. Love the brilliancy of the colors. I also like the capture of action here. The water drops in the top left corner are blurred as they speed towards the dandelion. The dandelion seems to lean in like someone with arms open (although with that many spokes it is a multi-armed person:-) ) a ready to catch the falling drops. This happy capture really projects a springtime feel with the spring greens and perhaps and 'april shower'.
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 03/14/2009 09:42:23 PM
Stunning background...
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 03/14/2009 08:46:06 PM
Nice detailed shot, nice capture of water droplets
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 03/14/2009 05:53:57 PM
interesting shot - i miss a clear point of focus
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 03/14/2009 04:42:44 PM
Coming back to comment...

Beautiful clarity and details!
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 03/14/2009 02:42:19 PM
The high contrast is a different take o a popular subject.
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 03/13/2009 11:13:27 PM
different image nice idea
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 03/13/2009 10:24:43 PM
the water was a nice touch, the colors are great. I really like this shot, well placed, I could see this as a wallpaper. The sharpness is great, too!
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 03/13/2009 06:08:17 PM
Last man standing??? blurred rain drops are a bonus!
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 03/13/2009 10:30:23 AM
Great shot, love the drops of water on the dandelion!
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 03/13/2009 07:56:09 AM
Nice detail but I find the stem to the left a bit distracting.
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 03/13/2009 05:35:39 AM
very nice capture, 6
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 03/13/2009 02:50:50 AM
Nice clarity. Good use of green to enhance the nature shot.
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 03/12/2009 11:59:40 PM
amazing sharp detail - nice background...
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 03/12/2009 10:54:46 PM
very sharp, focused shot
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 03/12/2009 09:00:49 PM
Nice detail and colors.
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 03/12/2009 05:49:35 PM
Very interesting bokeh effect, and I like the falling water drops. Nicely seen.
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 03/12/2009 04:02:48 PM
How interesting. The white bits in motion in the upper left makes this a lot more interesting than others of this genre.
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 03/12/2009 12:45:53 PM
I like the strong green background and the water falling. The very edges of the dandelion *almost* look oversharpened, but just barely.
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 03/12/2009 09:51:23 AM
great sharpness and detail with the top soft as well
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 03/12/2009 09:03:07 AM
Whoa. Very sharp details.
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 03/12/2009 08:30:07 AM
Perhaps a bit sharp for me. Lovely composition though.
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 03/12/2009 07:25:25 AM
and taken in the rain, well done, love the raindrops on the dandelion
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 03/12/2009 12:42:08 AM
great background, wonderful dof, and great shot
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 03/11/2009 05:32:59 PM
I like how a few of the seeds have blown away, allowing the viewer to peer into the dome that remains. The water droplets in the top left corner do compete for my attention though, a tighter crop may have helped with those.
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 03/11/2009 10:30:35 AM
Like the water droplets, elevates it about the normal dandelion shot
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 03/11/2009 07:03:35 AM
There are some very intesting choices shown here. And I think I like all of them... what I can see that is...
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 03/11/2009 05:39:34 AM
I love the dew in it!
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 03/11/2009 01:38:50 AM
lovely! color, lighting, and dof.. super duper 8
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 03/11/2009 12:50:05 AM
such a whimsical weed. They always photograph so well.
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