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Challenge: Free Study 2009-07 (Advanced Editing VII)
Collection: My favourites
Camera: Canon EOS-5D Mark II
Lens: Canon EF 24-105mm f/4.0L IS
Date: Jul 31, 2009
Aperture: f/6.7
ISO: 100
Shutter: 1/500
Galleries: Sky, Black and White
Date Uploaded: Jul 3, 2009

 This won't be everyone's cup of tea, but this is probably my favourite photo I have shot so far this year. I imagine the missing head will come in for some flak - personally I think it is key to the success of the image.

Statistics
Place: 88 out of 419
Avg (all users): 6.1351
Avg (commenters): 8.4000
Avg (participants): 6.0796
Avg (non-participants): 6.3143
Views since voting: 1888
Views during voting: 260
Votes: 148
Comments: 26
Favorites: 16 (view)

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 08/24/2015 01:41:29 AM
This is so good. An intense narrative, action with foreboding, detail with incompleteness.
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 08/27/2014 07:13:07 PM
I personally love this too. The emotion of freedom comes to mind viewing this image. Great as usual.
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 01/11/2013 07:23:37 PM
I love the bugs eye view.
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 01/08/2013 04:26:32 PM
Another exceptional image! It includes an instant meaning of inspiration for me. Now I will have to plan a shot in this style with my son. Bravo!
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 11/21/2011 07:48:06 PM
And fast..
Beautiful image. At first and without reading the title, it made me think of a child and of the joy of running. So I found the contrast a bit disconcerting. Dark, harsh and less luminous than I would have liked. But then I finally realized the mood of the image, and it certainly works well.
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 09/27/2011 04:47:32 PM
Love this shot- such great feeling and natural vignetting- the sky and motion inspired a thought of emotion and I'm not sure why- its just really good.
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 11/12/2010 10:24:14 AM
Loved this at the time of the challenge - good to have a revisit!
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 11/10/2010 04:38:53 PM
I'm coming back to this via your story in the proposal thread, which caused me to check out your ribbons to see who your wife was (babe!) and thus caused me to see this headless romper, and to notice I'd given you a 10 and failed to comment, which I usually do when I give 10's, so better late than never as I tell you how much I loved this unadulterated blast intense movement and all its metaphorical baggage :-)
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 02/11/2010 02:24:24 PM
LOVE THIS ..!!..:)
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 01/19/2010 10:24:05 PM
Norman Rockwell breaks free.
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 01/18/2010 07:52:59 AM
Fantastic!
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 10/08/2009 05:23:34 AM
I must not have voted this FS (I don't see my red bar). This is phenominal! Nice sense of from where/to where with the "where" being immaterial, only the going and coming being of consequence. Great work with the tones and vignetting to create and contain the world here, too.
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 08/09/2009 03:09:09 AM
One of my 10s. Love everything about this. Total freedom.
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 08/08/2009 10:34:38 AM
Wonderful shot, every stroke means something. 8 from me.
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 08/08/2009 06:40:32 AM
Nice choice for the FS, one of my favs in the challenge!
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 08/08/2009 06:24:27 AM
Wonderful image. Congrats!
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 08/08/2009 04:40:56 AM
excellent shot, congratulations!
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 08/08/2009 01:06:54 AM
One of these days I will learn how to do a shot like this, where something that would normally be slammed as a flaw actually adds to magic of the image. I gave this a 9.
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
08/07/2009 10:47:58 PM
I like the comp, processing is a bit overdone for me. Still very good.
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 08/07/2009 12:36:26 PM
I love that you cut off his head, I think that is was separates this shot from a simple snapshot. Great perspective as well.
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 08/06/2009 10:32:06 PM
great pic
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 08/06/2009 02:40:32 PM
A very powerful photo with immediate visual and emotional impact.
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 08/04/2009 11:52:33 AM
A picture with a narrative.... best kind.
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 08/02/2009 11:48:21 PM
perfect.
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 08/02/2009 03:25:45 AM
great contrast and artiness...I like it
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 08/01/2009 03:07:33 AM
ooo very moody and sinister, the grain adds a great deal to this shot
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