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Uploaded: December 08, 2010

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Exif: F Number: 13, Exposure Bias Value: -0.33, ExposureTime: 1/640 seconds, Flash: did not fire, compulsory flash mode, ISO: 400, White balance: Auto white balance, FocalLength: 70.00 mm, Model: Canon EOS 20D

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Anthony L. Mancuso December 08, 2010

This is a different kind of image for you Peter, I like it alot. I think the womans position in the frame work well and I fancy how the proximity of her feet to the top edge create some visual tension. I also dig how the motion is frozen. I think if i'twer mine I would clone out the boat and its wake, unless of course they add something to the story you are trying to tell with this one... #1333893

Debbie E. Payne December 08, 2010

Peter - I think this shot works as is. At first I thought that maybe adding some more sky and swing rope would look good but I like the tension that Tony suggested. I like how the grass slopes. I wouldn't straighten it. I like the wake but the eye does go right to it so I'd like to see it without. I also would be curious to see a crop that would place the tip of the left-hand side of the swing in the left-hand corner of the shot. And if that is something that you might do, I would definitely eliminate the wake under those circumstances. #9087807

Peter W. Marks December 08, 2010

This is Elizabeth my wife just being a big kid at Mevagissey in Cornwall. It would be easy to clone out the boat which is the ferry between Meva and Fowey in the distance. I only need it in the image for my own satisfaction as we use this ferry when we are back there and it has been a chance to be out there on the ocean where my late Dad and I used to fish from our own boat fifty years ago.
Below I will include a down and dirty clone just for comparison. #9087886

Rita K. Connell December 08, 2010

what a fun shot this is I really like it alot pete. I like the wake from the boat the only thing I see that is a distraction for me is the blurry strip right in front of the boat it goes vertical it actally starts where and water and the grass meets and travels upward through the picture. what is that was there something on your lens? #9087887

Peter W. Marks December 08, 2010

Ah Rita, if only I could tell a lie.
That blurry strip is poor cloning, impatience, and a streaming head cold.
What else do you want to know? :0) #9087894

Michael Kelly December 08, 2010

I like it nice and clear with good exposure and color.

I do think the proximity to the top edge works for the reasons stated.

I definitely think it is worth a rework when you are feeling better in order to clean up the clone artifacts. #9087943

Carla Capra Anderson December 08, 2010

Wow, Peter!
I think this image is magnificent.
I like your lovely wife's position in the image, the way the swing is moving away, the tones, colors and focus. I like the visual movement of the ferry. Perhaps, a bit of cloning. Not to remove it but to darken it up a bit. Perhaps, reduce the clones opacity and dust that ferry with a bit of dark blue water.

Congrats, Peter this is magnificent!
;) CC #9088263

Dale Hardin December 08, 2010

Peter, I liked this the minute I saw it. Everything about it works. As Tony noted the tension is perfectly balanced with your placement of the feet, and the frozen motion creates that "moment in time" that we all endeavor to capture.

I disagree with cropping or cloning on this image because in the words of a very wise photographer friend of mine, you could lose the story by cropping out the essence of the tale. I can well imagine her passing the time in a rhythmical ritual as she watches the ferry bring back her lover.

I wouldn't change a thing unless it were a simple technical issue of glare. Perhaps a simple shadows/highlights adjustment of about 20 on the shadows and equally on the highlights.

One of my all time favorites from you Peter. #9088346

Rita K. Connell December 09, 2010

thanks for being honest Pete, but I'm with dale I love the story this picture tells and I wouldn't change anything except I would work on the blur this is a picture that would be wall worthy its just a fun picture and it takes us all back to a great place. this is one of my favorites of your #9088857

Joan E. Hoffman December 09, 2010

I'm in the club of loving this image and not cloning or cropping! This works just beautifully as presented! #9089013

Peter W. Marks December 09, 2010

You are all most kind and when I can put the boxes of Kleenex aside for more than a few seconds I shall do my best to make a better job of cloning.
Just to show what I had to work with I will load the original straight from camera image. As you will see there was a very distracting chain from the adjacent swing and I am thinking Joan that you will at least understand my initial clone.
Now there is something I need to say Mr Dale (and you too, Ms Rita) I am bordering on regretting encouraging you guys to look for stories within images, not just the pixels. So now what do I get from Dale? He thinks my wife is waiting for a lover to arrive on the ferry!! Sheesh! Just who do you think is standing behind her taking the shot? I am not too sure about the "rhythmical ritual" either! LOL

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Dale Hardin December 09, 2010

LOL Peter. We all know that "no one" is taking the shot, it just appears and that you are on the ferry. The way I see it, unless the subject is interacting with the photographer then "no one" is behind the camera. It is just a vehicle for us to view the scene. And here I thought you'd be happy that I'd finally started listening to you. :o) #9089384

Aimee C. Eisaman December 09, 2010

I'm loving the feel of this image. Makes me remember what is was like to swing on the old rope board swing on my grandparents apple tree. No worries or cares in the world. Just swinging while listening to the birds sing while the branches creaked and groaned.

Other than the NyQuil clone job I can't think of anything else that this needs. If it were mine I might take the boat out and instead put a colorful sail boat or two in it's place. But that's me taking my liberties with the line between truth and dream. :~) #9089467

Jeff E Jensen December 09, 2010

Fantastic, Pete! It's not hard at all to imagine sitting there, smelling the ocean and feeling the breeze and the sunshine. Feels a lot warmer than your neighborhood was the last couple of days. #9089671

Peter W. Marks December 09, 2010

Oh, I am Dale, I am! I am still impressed with you making an image of a nearly deserted theme park especially as the lady appears to be on her cell phone calling the cops,
Thank you Aimee. We should all have happy memories of swings and trees at grandparents' property. I feel so sorry for kids in cities living in sterile suroundings. We need to fall out of trees to understand gravity.
Yes, Jeff it has been in the teens fahrenheit with a wind-chill in single digits here, just across the Mississippi from St Louis. The swings in my image are in a tiny park at Mevagissey where we vacation at my younger sister's place. It is everything you say when the weather is kind and I will load a view across the bay to the left of where the swings are. In the mid ground is The Blackhead, and in the far distance is the Gribbin Headland which protects the entrance to the River Fowey.
#9089811

Teresa H. Hunt December 09, 2010

Peter, I really like this image. I agree with Dale on the crop . . . I don't think it necessary. As for the boat . . . I kinda like it, but it does pull the eye, so maybe just tone it down.

I like the fact that the swing appeares to be attached to nothing! She looks like she'll swing right off the side of the cliff. I reminds me of the days I'd swing as high as I could. #9089985

Ellen H. Robertson December 09, 2010

I love this shot as is. So carefree. What a wonderful view from the swing.

Peter, I love your shots from Cornwall. Some of my favorite books are the "All Creatures Great and Small" series and your shots are what I envisioned the land to look like from the descriptinons in the books. #9089990

Peter W. Marks December 10, 2010

And thank you kindly Teresa and Ellen.
It has made me a little homesick showing these images. I know I have said it before but with my image- making I just don't sweat the small stuff. I have to struggle to try to make one perfect when in reality my head is inside the image and doing what Jeff said above. I am smelling the ocean, feeling the warmth and breezes, feeling our small boat gently rocking as we catch a few mackerel.
Here now is another view taken from the swings but looking out to sea at a different time when a heavy rain shower had just passed and an ever-so faint rainbow struggles to make itself seen. This is Chapel Point, Mevagissey and the color is quite close to what I actually saw.
#9090583

Aimee C. Eisaman December 10, 2010

It's beautiful there Peter! :~) #9090670

Joan E. Hoffman December 10, 2010

What a beautiful place Peter, thank you for the additional posts. Would like to go there sometime... however, I don't fly anymore! #9090707

Joan E. Hoffman December 10, 2010

What a beautiful place Peter, thank you for the additional posts. Would like to go there sometime... however, I don't fly anymore! #9090708

Rita K. Connell December 10, 2010

the other views are wonderful it looks like a beautiful place to be thanks for sharing. #9090735

Teresa H. Hunt December 10, 2010

Wow what a beautiful place. I'd love to visit there. :) #9091425

Ellen H. Robertson December 11, 2010

So beautiful. #9092694

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