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23-DEC-2007 Michael Shealy

6th Place "Para-skiing" By Michael Shealy

Brekenridge, CO

Rules Broken: Rule of Thirds, large areas of negative space
Reason it Works: Subject is widely separated yet necessarily together to complete the scene; areas of negative space add to subject's vivid colors.

Canon EOS 20D ,Tamron SP AF17-50mm f/2.8 XR DiII
1/4000s f/2.8 at 46.0mm iso200 full exif

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ctfchallenge31-Dec-2007 18:43
Thanks for the comments, folks. Tom, ";^) ... Gerry, you'll have to thank the skier for those colors. For those of you who don't ski, its a chance to be as wild as you can with your choice of colors in attire and equipment. Tho I admittedly do like to "play with color", these are the colors that were there. Kelly, most of these kites are quite easily steered and when one wants to stop, the kite is steered down to the ground, or in a emergency or a fall, as you suggest, one line is released. Aam1234, thanks, and oh well, some of us weirdos like snow. Cheers, -mikey
aam1234 31-Dec-2007 16:13
Excellent.

With this amount of snow I'm not moving to CO :)
ctfchallenge31-Dec-2007 14:56
Very nice Mikey! If we weren't obsessing about extreme rule breaking, I bet this would have also looked nice with colors closer to earth. So how does that guy stop? I assume he's able to collapse his sail somehow or does he just let go of one line? - Kelly
ctfchallenge31-Dec-2007 09:55
Very nice Mikey; I like the use of complementary colours. -mcbit
Guest 31-Dec-2007 03:39
Very cool Mikey. Now this has a large negative space. I love th colores, especially the eerie glow of the trees toward the bottom.
ctfchallenge31-Dec-2007 03:15
I do; kinda like you and legs, I guess ";^D) Thanks for the "nod". Cheers, -mikey
ctfchallenge30-Dec-2007 23:18
Qualified. You do like to play with color, don't you! ~ Lonnit