American Dream

© Patricia Marroquin

American Dream

Uploaded: July 13, 2004

Description

The Ballpark in Arlington, 2002. Applied a softener filter to give it a dreamy look.

Comments

Dan Holm July 13, 2004

Wonderful composition and color! Excellent capture, Patricia! #147504

Stephen Zacker July 13, 2004

Super capture and effects. Neat image! #645789

Murry Grigsby July 13, 2004

Nice "All-American" image Patricia! Love the arc of grass and the repeated flags!! #645816

Patricia Marroquin July 13, 2004

Thanks, Dan, Stephen and Murry.:-) This was not too long after 9/11, and patriotic displays were prevalent. #645841

Carolyn M. Fletcher level-classic July 13, 2004

This is wonderful. Perfect for the Independence category!! Love it! #645865

Jeff Robinson level-deluxe July 13, 2004

Wow Patricia, great work with this one! Very well done..... Jeff #645899

Colette M. Metcalf July 13, 2004

Wonderful!! #645925

Ronald Balthazor July 13, 2004

Great composition, capture, and treatment, Patricia. Now, if you could only bring up the color a tad. ;) #646027

Joy Brown July 13, 2004

Absolutely outstanding, Patricia!!! A definite winner! #646031

Janet S Weaver July 13, 2004

Excellent shot Patricia! It is for sure a winner!! #646056

Marie Fields July 13, 2004

Terrific image! #646107

Terry R. Hatfield July 13, 2004

Hi Patricia The Colors Look So Good Here Nice Image!!Love The Repetition Of The Flags! #646190

Carol Brill July 13, 2004

Very stirring capture of patriotism at its best, Patricia, and I especially like how you captured the lighting on the flags and those shadows! #646304

Darren K. Fisher July 13, 2004

Awesome job Pat. Love the colors and your composition. #646475

Diane Addonizio level-classic July 13, 2004

Nice image, Pat. #646539

Patricia Marroquin July 14, 2004

Thank you so much, Carolyn, Jeff, Colette, Ron, Joy, Janet, Marie, Terry, Carol, Darren and Diane!

Ron, you know I considered bringing up the color just a wee bit, but then I thought I'd be going over the top so I left it "toned down." ;-) #646594

Kristen McKain July 14, 2004

Awesome! Well done! #646817

Patricia Marroquin July 14, 2004

Thanks, Kristen! :-) #648193

Dawn Balaban July 15, 2004

Great Shot. I love the lines and color. You will be seeing an award for this one for sure. Good Luck! #649763

Patricia Marroquin July 16, 2004

Thanks, Dawn! That's so nice of you to say. :-) #649871

Marta Azevedo July 17, 2004

Thank you, Patricia.
I`ve seen many photos of american flags in this site, but this one is the best. Original. #653240

Anette Linnea Rasmussen July 18, 2004

Great shot, Pat!
I expect to se this again!

Best wishes
Linnea #656740

Patricia Marroquin July 19, 2004

Thank you, Marta and Linnea! I've decided to enter this one in the upcoming Ventura County Fair photography contest. :-) #658045

Terry R. Hatfield August 14, 2004

Congrats To You On Your Finalist Patricia!! #707369

Wally Orlowsky August 14, 2004

Congratulations again, Patricia! #707598

William C. Raco level-classic August 14, 2004

Fantastic!
Love this one, too, Patricia
Congratulations,

bill #707965

Claudia Kuhn level-classic August 14, 2004

Congrats Patricia!! #708063

Nobu Nagase August 14, 2004

Congratulations again, Patricia!!!
AWESOME!!!!!!! #708789

Marta Azevedo August 14, 2004

Congrats, patricia. Well deserved. #708879

Susan T. Evans level-classic August 14, 2004

congrats Patricia, awesome and well deserved! #708910

Kelly Abernathy level-classic August 14, 2004

Congratulations! -K #709103

Brenda W. LaFleur level-deluxe August 14, 2004

Congrat, Patricia! This is wonderful....well deserved! #709401

Murry Grigsby August 14, 2004

Congrats again Patricia! #709516

Colette M. Metcalf August 14, 2004

Congrats to you again, Patricia!! #710370

Patricia Marroquin August 14, 2004

Thank you all so very much! I'll have to catch up with all the great finalist photos later as this weekend is a busy one for me. I appreciate your kind comments. :-) #710543

Kathleen Clemons August 15, 2004

Congrats again, Patricia!! #711827

Patricia Marroquin August 15, 2004

Thanks, Kath! #713558

Michael Khoury August 17, 2004

A belated Congratulations, Patricia! #716985

Patricia Marroquin August 17, 2004

Thank you, Michael! :-) #717150

Karma Wilson August 17, 2004

I love your whole gallery Patricia! I hadn't seen it before so I wanted to comment on this which is a fabulous wonderful picture! I also love the Martha Stewart guilty! Of course all your photos are great! I love learning from people like you! And congrats on the fair wins!

Karma #717714

Patricia Marroquin August 18, 2004

Karma, thank you so much for the incredible compliment. It means a lot and is much appreciated. :-) #719371

Stephen Zacker August 22, 2004

Congratulations, Patricia! #727541

Patricia Marroquin August 24, 2004

Thanks a lot, Stephen! :-) #731077

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