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ctfchallenge | all galleries >> The Best of CTF Challenges >> Best of 2008 > 3rd Place - West Point Light
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18-JUL-2008 Brent

3rd Place - West Point Light
by Brent

Canon EOS 30D ,Canon EF 17-40mm f/4L USM
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ctfchallenge28-Jul-2008 16:16
Thanks all of you for your comments :-)
~Brent
ctfchallenge28-Jul-2008 11:40
Brent, you really do justice to the beauty that the Northwest has to offer! Another great shot! - angioman
Canon DSLR Challenge26-Jul-2008 16:57
Very handsome (manly) and full-toned, natural shot. I was in Seattle for only a day between Mt Rainier and the San Juan Islands so we didn't have time to make this hike (as if I could have found it). -tv
theFly 22-Jul-2008 16:42
well done
Photogenix21-Jul-2008 16:59
Very nice Brent. Really like the lighting. -RK
Guest 21-Jul-2008 16:18
Well done Brent. Just the right light with some great shadows in the waves. -COAmature
janewigginsphotography21-Jul-2008 03:38
Very powerful - love the light on the rocks and the way you captured the waves. jano
ctfchallenge20-Jul-2008 18:06
Thanks much Mary Anne and Cat. I'm wishing I had more ominous clouds in the forecast, but I'm really enjoying this challenge for the way it enables me to get out and about in nature the way I like- except for the mosquito bites I got taking pictures in a marsh yesterday!
~Brent
ctfchallenge20-Jul-2008 06:18
Wonderful work Brent!!! Looks like you are on a role in the challenge. You are producing excellent zone system photos here...!
-Cat
ctfchallenge20-Jul-2008 02:06
Beautiful shot, Brent, and wonderful light.
--Mary Anne
Rod 19-Jul-2008 18:38
We're trying to create Ansel picys by nipping out to the garden & taking some picys & back to the computer wiv a cuppa tea & try to wring 10 tones from a 5 tone picy. You Brent have actually done an Ansel thing by putting on a backpack & hiking to the subject (I carried me camera bag out to the patio) You also got the Ansel light. Well done mate.
ctfchallenge19-Jul-2008 16:35
He he, Rod has it pretty much right Suey. I know you started an Alaska cruise from Seattle once. When your ship left downtown and Elliot Bay and made a turn you would have seen this lighthouse on your starboard side below a forested area (Discovery Park) and some bluffs. I expect you probably have seen it in person. The work of getting to it is the road going down there has no public access. I had to start out in the forested area with all my bleeding gear and hike a couple of miles to a series of stairs that took me down a bluff and to the beach near the lighthouse. All good exercise of course :-)
~Brent
Rod 19-Jul-2008 10:44
It looks like West Point to me Suey, it's just a hike from downtown Seattle. cough cough:-)
sue anne19-Jul-2008 10:11
Very nicely done. Where is this at?
Rod 19-Jul-2008 08:44
No worries Brent & don't forget they say there's a fine line between a genius & a nutter so you may be having the same thoughts as a genius a:-)hehe
ctfchallenge19-Jul-2008 07:24
Funny, we seem to think alike (OMG I'm in trouble!). This looked somehow different after I posted it and I was in the process of making pretty much the same changes you suggested while you were writing the comment :-) It's a bit of work hiking out to this thing, but I'm glad I did (pretty dark on the hike out of there). We finally have real summer in Seattle and I haven't seen clouds with drama for a while. With luck some will show up before the challenge is over, but I did my best with what I had to work with here. Thanks for the comment :-)
~Brent
Rod 19-Jul-2008 07:02
It's funny for another challenge we would say wow great shot mate but we're all trying to get better picys than the ole codger Ansel. Wiv that in mind I would do much more dodging & burning to give this more of a zone look. For me I would dodge the the light on this side of the building but not the shed then I would darken the rocks more along wiv parts of the water & maybe the lower darker cloud. I know I know this isn't wot a busy man needs to hear:-) Lovely picy anyhow Brent.