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- Su Sana E. P Contact Su Sana E. P Su Sana E. P's Gallery |
Wow!! This great image absolutely leave me breathlessn, Laurence!! Great elements for a perfect image here. Winner in my book!!!
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Darryl Wilkinson |
Outstanding capture of this beautiful landscape, Laurence. I love your point of view and the depth you've applied. Very nice!!
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Stanley J. Contrades |
Very dramatic clouds and wonderful tree and landscape imagery, Laurence! The colors are fabulous!! Much Aloha, Stan
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Karen Engelbreth |
Wonderful, dramatic image, Laurence!
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Tamara Sovilj |
Great image!
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Colette M. Metcalf |
GORGEOUS capture, Laurence!!!
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Colleen Braun |
amazing...
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Aimee S. McMaster |
...stunning image with great clarity and color Laurence...Aimee
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- Linda D. Lester Contact Linda D. Lester Linda D. Lester's Gallery |
Excellent shot...love everything about it!
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Glenn E. Urquhart |
Absolutely Stunning, Laurence!!! The sharpness, shape and color of the tree contrasted against that beautiful sky is Extrodanary!!! Outstanding color, lighting, contrast, VERY WELL COMPOSED and quite beautiful!!! Looks like a winner in my opinion!! Well Done! Cheers, Glenn.
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karenemichaels.com - Karen E. Michaels Contact Karen E. Michaels Karen E. Michaels's Gallery |
Stunning is the word of the day. Thee is such an intensity to this shot. Kudo's, karen
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Jessica Jenney |
Gorgeous lighting, colors and detail, Laurence! Wonderful drama!
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robinsonphotoart.com - Jeff Robinson Contact Jeff Robinson Jeff Robinson's Gallery |
Excellent composition, light and capture! Jeff
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Ronald F. Fischer |
Laurence, this is my new favorite image in your inpressive gallery!
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Nadya Johnson |
WOW! This one is a STUNNER, Laurence!! I have never seen a sky like that! It looks almost surreal. The lighting is MAGNIFICENT! What an awesome landscape!
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Cyn Valentine |
Beautiful awesome image...love the light and comp!!
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Cathy Stancil |
Such a beautiful and dramatic image, Laurence !! Fantastic image !!
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Shirley L. Carpenter |
WOW!! Beautiful image Laurence!! Excellent composition!!
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- Laurence Saliba Contact Laurence Saliba Laurence Saliba's Gallery |
Thanks so much for the positive comments!!! I am overwhelmed!!!
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Kara L. Hendricks |
Ohhh, I hope to see GOLD under this VERY SOON!!!
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- Amalia Sylvia Arriaga Salinas Contact Amalia Sylvia Arriaga Salinas Amalia Sylvia Arriaga Salinas's Gallery |
WOW Laurence, What a beautiful image and composition!, Amalia
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Silvia Nunes |
WOW!! Beautiful image Laurence!Wonderful.
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Sylvia Rossler |
One word ! WOW !
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Tarun Bose |
Outstanding capture of this beautiful view. Fantastic composition and lovely lighting. Well done Laurence.
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- Laurence Saliba Contact Laurence Saliba Laurence Saliba's Gallery |
Thanks Kara, Amalia, Silvia, Sylvia and Tarun!!
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Sharon Day |
Gorgeous image, Laurence!!! Simply beautiful!
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Sylvia Rossler |
Big congrats on your finalist Laurence :O)
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Cyn Valentine |
WTG Laurence!! Big congratulations!!!
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Bill Wyatt |
Congratulations on your wonderful Finalist, Laurence!
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Colette M. Metcalf |
Congrats once again!!
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Karen L. Sorbello |
Congrats! Simply stunning! -Karen
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Megan p |
Goodness this is Magnificent!!! Congratulations!
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Debra Booth |
Awesome, Laurence!! Congrats on your December finalists!!
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- Terry L. Ellis Contact Terry L. Ellis Terry L. Ellis's Gallery |
Congratulations again Laurence! This is a splendid finalist!
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Cathy Stancil |
Such gorgeous finalists you have here Laurence !! Huge congratulations t you my friend and good luck on the next round !!:O)
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- Christine Czernin Contact Christine Czernin Christine Czernin's Gallery |
Another beautiful finalist. I really must visit your country soon. Such stunning views.
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- Laurence Saliba Contact Laurence Saliba Laurence Saliba's Gallery |
Thanks so much my dear friends!!!
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Tom Andersen |
What a gorgeous vista, Laurence. Congratulations on your finalist!
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- Su Sana E. P Contact Su Sana E. P Su Sana E. P's Gallery |
I knew it!! Congratulations on this beautiful Winner, Laurence!!
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Peter Mantione |
A masterpiece!!!! Bravo Laurence.
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Paula Dwyer |
Outstanding!! Congratulations Laurence!!! :)
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- Kay E. Mahoney Contact Kay E. Mahoney Kay E. Mahoney's Gallery |
Congratulations on your beautiful finalist. Good luck in the next round.
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Holly Shao |
This is simply beautiful and breathtaking! Love that tree and the lighting is perfect. Congratulations, Laurence!!! Holly
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- Stephanie Laird Contact Stephanie Laird Stephanie Laird's Gallery |
Lovely Laurence! Congrats!
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Susan Fox |
Wow! Wonderful and beautiful photo! Love the composition, the lighting, the clarity and the colors. Great job!
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robinsonphotoart.com - Jeff Robinson Contact Jeff Robinson Jeff Robinson's Gallery |
Beautifully captured; Congrats Laurence on your Finalist! Jeff
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Carla Metzler |
Congratulations on this beautiful finalist, Laurence!
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johnvroscich.com - John V. Roscich Contact John V. Roscich John V. Roscich's Gallery |
BEAUTIFUL CONGRATS JOHN
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- Gail Vitikacs Contact Gail Vitikacs Gail Vitikacs's Gallery |
Keeping 'em coming! They are all super!
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- Laurence Saliba Contact Laurence Saliba Laurence Saliba's Gallery |
Thanks so very much my friends!!!
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RC Fritz |
Very dramatic clouds. Wonderful scene, Laurence. Congrats on your Finalist!
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Mick Burkey |
Great image, Laurence. As said, very dramatic and the coloring/lighting really adds to the feel of this shot. Belated congrats on the finals.
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Paul Giorgio |
Now this image (like many in your library) is impressive... You look at it...and you look at it again and you know its real yet there is a surreal feeling about it...I just like it!
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Brian Cassar |
Beautiful drama Laurence. That three is at Hagar qim Temples, am I right? Wonderful sunset shot.
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BetterPhoto Member |
What kind of people are commenting on this picture? Do you really not see that halo around the tree? That's some pretty sloppy Photoshop work, and very distracting. I don't mean to rain on the parade, but come on... The tree and sky are great, the rest of the foreground is fairly uninspiring.
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- Laurence Saliba Contact Laurence Saliba Laurence Saliba's Gallery |
Couldn't help not respond to this!!! Dan you must have some blurry monitor! What halo are you seeing? Do you mean to say this image is superimposed on another? All that was done here was a slight adjustment in levels, a minor crop and sharpened. LOL sloppy PS work!!! Mur sib grieg bahnan!!!
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BetterPhoto Member |
Laurence, I'm looking at this on another monitor and see the same thing. Look at the top of the tree where it meets the sky, it is much lighter than the sky above and around it. I'm not suggesting that there was any superimposing. What it looks like to me is that you tried to lighten the tree (or darken the sky?), and just weren't all that accurate. If I am wrong then I apologize, just trying to give an honest critique so that you might be able to improve the picture with some minor post-processing adjustments. If anybody else sees what I'm talking about, please confirm because Laurence thinks I am "Mur sib grieg bahnan"...
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Paul Giorgio |
Just wanted to point out that sometimes it can turn out to be a natural phenomon...there was a photo uploaded some time ago of a giraffe that had a similar effect...such as a 'halo' glow...this can at times be achieved with a photoshop colour curve tweak but at times its a natural effect....now there is one way to give a critic on a photo and there are others...Dan C you mentioned the foreground being uninspiring - right? So what is one to do? crop it? and have a floating tree? In your response you should be fair...if you dont like it...just say why but do say what you would have done or give advice..and not just act aggressive...cause your statement as read by me...not the author of the photo was agressive..
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- Laurence Saliba Contact Laurence Saliba Laurence Saliba's Gallery |
Thanks Paul!! No more comment.
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Lani J |
Laurence, I looooove the depth in this image. It's like you're looking through a window. Beautifully done ;)
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Lori Carlson |
Amazing exposure Laurence friend!! Congrats on this!!! :0)
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- Lisa J. Boulden Contact Lisa J. Boulden Lisa J. Boulden's Gallery |
Dramatic and wonderful!!! An amazing image in a fan-tabulous gallery--- a field of visual treats!!! --Lisa
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Iris Greenwell |
Wow, great image. Beautiful colors and great composition. Iris
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- Usman M. Bajwa Contact Usman M. Bajwa Usman M. Bajwa's Gallery |
Superb composition and great colors, Laurence. I must see Malta someday.
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Renata Gusciora |
This is amazing,Laurence!I love the feel,sky,tones and composition are perfect!
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Donna La Mattino Pagakis |
Congratulations!!! Stunning light and beautiful scene Laurence!
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- Teresa Burnett Contact Teresa Burnett Teresa Burnett's Gallery |
And another huge congratulations Laurence!! Best of luck in the next round!!
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- Stefania Barbier Contact Stefania Barbier Stefania Barbier's Gallery  |
a stunner.... congratulations again Laurence!!!!
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Barbara Waldoch |
Congratulations on all your finaliasts, Laurence!
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Erin Appelbaum |
Gorgeous finalist Laurence. Congrats. Peter
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Ujjwal Mukherjee |
Wonderful finalist,Laurence! Congrats!!
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Max Aureli |
I can't resist to respond to Dan! You should calibrate your monitors or get good ones and I suggest to get the best on the market for video cards 3DLabs... it's what I using to see this great and fabulous image!!! Max
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- Laurence Saliba Contact Laurence Saliba Laurence Saliba's Gallery |
Thanks everyone!!!! Max I can say again, there is no sort of superimposing or anything. Its as natural as can be!!! The sky is what it was when taken.
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- Lisa J. Boulden Contact Lisa J. Boulden Lisa J. Boulden's Gallery |
Huge, wonderful congratulations, Laurence, on this beauty! Smiles, Lisa♥ PS: I wish Dan could see this one again...wearing a big silver badge!
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Renata Gusciora |
Ahhhh,this is soo beautiful!!!Huge congratulations on this magical finalist,Laurence!!!:-)Good luck in the next round!!!
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Max Aureli |
Laurence, I can recognize when an image is superimposed and your is not superimposed and as Paul explained is a natural light effect capture by the camera that is called light radiant and sometime can be perceived by naked eyes. It's a genuine and fantastic beautiful images and congratulations for your Finalist, Laurence!!!
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- Laurence Saliba Contact Laurence Saliba Laurence Saliba's Gallery |
Thanks everyone!!! your comments greatly appreciated!!!
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Vladan D. Djordjevic |
Congratulations on this beautiful finalist, Laurence. Favorite.
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- Elida Gutierrez Contact Elida Gutierrez Elida Gutierrez's Gallery |
Congratulations on your FINALIST!!!
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debarnesphotography.com - Denny E. Barnes Contact Denny E. Barnes Denny E. Barnes's Gallery |
Congratulations on a beautiful and well deserving finalist, Laurence!! Good luck on the GOLD!
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BetterPhoto Member |
OK, since I have been mentioned twice in the last few comments, I'll add my response. I never implied that the image was superimposed, or anything of the sort. To Max: my monitor is calibrated just fine! All I really wanted to point out (and admittedly, I could have done this more tactfully at the time) is that there is very distinct and obvious haloing around the top of the trees. Paul G. has suggested this is a 'natural phenomenon', which is just ridiculous, it's a very common editing mistake that even the pros make when they are processing a picture. If you don't believe me, I would invite Laurence to post the original, UNEDITED picture on this thread, in the interest of us all learning something. Laurance, my original opinion still holds - I think this is a nice shot that would be even better without that haloing, and that this is an easy fix in Photoshop.
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Sirsendu Gayen |
Congratulations on this beautiful finalist.
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- Laurence Saliba Contact Laurence Saliba Laurence Saliba's Gallery |
Thanks my dear friends!!! Dan I will find the original and post as soon as possible but bear with me cos its over 2 years old now and I have many 1000's of files :)
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BetterPhoto Member |
OK, Laurence, that would be interesting to see! Incidentally, I looked through your gallery, you have some great pictures in there!
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Stanley J. Contrades |
CONGRATULATIONS on your Finalist, Laurence! Well done my friend!! Aloha, Stan
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Carla Metzler |
Congratulations, Laurence!
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William88 |
Beautiful photo!! great lighting and color. congratulations.
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Colleen Farrell |
Beautiful! Congratulations again!
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