At The End Of The Day - for Horia

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• gracious (10973)
• [2008-05-20 9:58]

Hello Paul,
You are back to your great seascape once again and a nice dedication too!
very dramatic scene from the coast with the heavy clouds in good depth!
good pov with nice fg perspective in good sharpness, nice colour and details
many thanks
cheers
Tony

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• Patleboss (5870)
• [2008-05-20 10:04]

Hello my dear Paul,
what a splendid and nearly dramatic scene,
very nice point of view and wonderfull colours,
excellent post very well composed,
cheer,
friendly,
Pat

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• lawbert (0)
• [2008-05-20 10:36]
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Hello Paul
The picture is spot on and tfs.
Most of all a great note which explains so well what a great bloke Horia is....and to be honest the TN hat has to be tipped to you for all you arranged for his visit...And also the rest of us on Sunday!!
I appreciate all your effort as I am sure Horia and the rest of us did.
Paul

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• joey (17959)
• [2008-05-20 10:39]

Hi Paul,
very impressive image!
I saw this on the camera LCD and this is basically straight from the camera which proves you don't need photoshop which is a very good thing to be able to do :-)
The weather may have been foul but it delivered some awesomely moody skies as you show here.
Great FG interest and fab lighting.
Superb contrast too.

Very well done!

Cheers mate,

Joe

p.s I'll keep you updated with the short-listed thing but I'm not expecting anything :-)

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• Gert-Paassen (4015)
• [2008-05-20 11:39]

Hello Paul,

Good landscape and horia is lucky, its beautiful there in Dorset and Cornwall.
I come there one time back, nice and friendly people there.
These picture has a nice pov and i like this so whit the yellow flowers.

Gert

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• boreocypriensis (9906)
• [2008-05-20 11:45]
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Hi Paul,
Superb seascape shot with amazing perspective! All perfect. I love also the yellow flowers which improved the DOF. TFS friend!
Cheers,
Bayram

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• vanderschelden (24753)
• [2008-05-20 12:30]

Hello Paul,
Excellent photo. Very good compo! As a matter of fact I like the cloudy atmosphere.
Beautiful image dedicated to Horia.
TFS
Annick

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• fartash (10025)
• [2008-05-20 12:35]

Dear Paul
What a wonderful scene you captured,
Perfect exposure,composition and POV.Superb shot my friend.

Regards
Fartash

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• goldyrs (4108)
• [2008-05-20 13:09]

GReat shot Bro!
zGoin right into my favs!
Cheers!

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• nglen (18250)
• [2008-05-20 13:25]

Hi Paul. This is a picture to keep for ever . I am sure you now have a good friend in Horia. And it will be interesting to see some of his pictures from our Dorset coat.
Your late eve picture on a very dull day has turned out well. You timing to capture what little light there was . Amazing colours in the sea and the bright yellow of the flowers. well done TFS.
Nick..

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• matatur (2386)
• [2008-05-20 13:42]

Aaah, now you are really back in your element Paul, again the exaggerated perspective of the "Sigma 10-20 mm" creates a tremendous depth of field while the polarizer lets us see the sea bed details near the FG by eliminating some of the reflections from the sea surface. A beautiful land/seascape my friend!
Mehmet

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• calexica (20)
• [2008-05-20 14:03]

Hey Paul,
WOW ... an excellent capture of nature's beauty in its purest form. Perfect colors & contrast, excellent sharpness ... a composition that really couldn't be any better. Congratulations!!!
Greetings,
Natasha

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• Juyona (12716)
• [2008-05-20 15:14]

Hola Paul,
perfecto trabajo y presentación...
delicado pov. y sensacional panorama.
magnífica dedicatoria para el amigo Horia.
saludos

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• pekkavalo1 (2657)
• [2008-05-20 15:23]

Hi Paul,

What an amazing landscape. Excellent bright colours, good DOF and sharp details.

TFS

Pekka

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• eqshannon (17144)
• [2008-05-20 18:00]

I am of course sure Horia will love this...You and he share a very similar style of imaging....the difference being locations of course...but I can sense a good philosophical as well as photographic relationship..it works in photos...photos bring us together in so many ways...
Bob

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• iris (2053)
• [2008-05-20 22:47]

Dear Paul,
So nice to see your landscapes again. I love this PoV with the clump of flowers that are in the FG and the dark looming clouds in the horizon.THe PoV is breathtaking and ican fell the air and the environment created by the mood.Those marks on the water seems to be the result of perhaps a speedboat that passed by and that adds to the drama of the composiiton.
TFS & Cheers

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• SunToucher (8291)
• [2008-05-20 23:00]

Hi Paul,
Very different from your warm colored sunset seascapes. But surely not less beautiful. I actually like this type of light even more. The overall grey scene is perfectly lifted up by the yellow flowers.
I realy like the lines in this photo. Not only the line of the cliff is pointing toward the horizon, the clouds point toward the same position.
TFS,
Niek

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• SelenE (13345)
• [2008-05-20 23:29]

Hi Paul,
It's a very nice dedication for Horia. You were a bit unlucky about the weather, but as we can see from your photo you still can get very good photos despite the weather.
Exposure control is very good. Colors, contrast, scenery, POV,and composition look lovely.
TFS
Greetings,
Selen

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• gannu (8608)
• [2008-05-21 2:56]

Hello Paul, your landscape shot is superb. Excellent view and wonderful composition. Nice sky. Ganesh

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• anel (7208)
• [2008-05-21 5:14]

hello Paul,
Magnificent view you show us here! You also have chosen an ideal point of view, giving sight on the close and the far. Really beautiful bunch of yellow flowers in the foreground, in contrast to the grey sky. Splendid!
Best regards
Anne

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• mohaiminawang (114)
• [2008-05-21 7:17]

Hi Paul,
excellent seascape photograph,wow....nice contrast,colour and dof.TFS

mohaimin

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• hester (10762)
• [2008-05-21 11:27]

Hi Paul

It sounds like you had a wonderful time and I bet Horia loved beautiful Dorset.

I love the weather in the shot with the dramatic dark clouds and the stormy light brining out the yellow. The light on the water is stunning

TFS

Karan

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• demeve (3786)
• [2008-05-21 21:33]

Hello Paul,
This is a very nice photo, very nice dedication.
Great colors and sharpness.. Well done

Everton

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• peter_stoeckl (9245)
• [2008-05-22 3:11]

Hi Paul,
spectacular scenery wirh the elements meeting. I love the opulence of details, the bright accents of light on deep shadows, the enormous depth. A place to evoke strong feelings, taken into a grand picture. A very nice dedication to our friend Horia. Thank you!
With best regards,
Peter

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• Miss_Piggy (2801)
• [2008-05-22 6:30]

Hallo Paul
I do not have time to leave a proper critique; I do however want to tell you the combination of colours and features captured here is great. The yellow flowers on the foregroud, the alge on the rocks, the different colours and patterns in the water, the cloud filled sky and most of all the way you can look far back to the horizon. Makes you miss somebody you don't even know.
Well done, I think this is a great image. Thanks for sharing.
Kind regards.
Anna

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• marhowie (34121)
• [2008-05-22 7:11]

Beautiful Paul, like this a lot.
The weather may have been poor, but you've captured a certain mood that works..perhaps it's the shock of bright yellow flowers FG that gives one hope :)
Excellent depth, color, detail, comp, and exposure..You guys know where to stand ;}
Very well done,
Howard

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• Silvio2006 (21519)
• [2008-05-22 13:41]

Hi Paul, superb composition with splendid flowers in FG and wonderful seascape, fantastic colors and splendid sky, very well done, ciao Silvio

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• arfer (0)
• [2008-05-22 20:28]

Hello Paul

What a wonderful perspective.
The vista is impressive.
Excellent colours and lighting.
This photo really gives new meaning to a cloud ceiling.
The POV and DOF are super.
I don't know Old Harry ...but you are correct Old Harry rocks!
TFS

Rob

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• Mana (15476)
• [2008-05-23 4:44]

Hi Paul,
Wonderful shot and a fantastic scene you have presented here. The yellow flowers add lovely colour to the stormy environment. Beautiful lighting and I can smell the wetness and feel the cool breeze. Excellent DOF, POV and composition. Kudos.
TFS.
Sumon

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• haraprasan (11593)
• [2008-05-23 4:55]

Hi Paul,
A beautiful dedication for Horia. Very well captured with lovely composition and lovely colors. Thanks a lot for sharing.

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• uleko (21146)
• [2008-05-24 7:18]

Hello Paul,
You seen to have had a great day together and certainly got some fabulous shots! This is so beautiful, I love the yellow colour together with the grey clouds and the dark sea. Excellent DOF, beautiful light and a superb composition.
Many thanks and cheers, Ulla

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• blue_river (918)
• [2008-05-30 21:34]

You truly do know how to take a great landscape shot. Every one of your landscapes are stunning. They all have so much depth of field, as this one does. And the exposure, sharpness and quality of the images are amazing,
TFS

TK

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• horia (11790)
• [2008-07-25 2:20]

Hi Paul

I am such an a$$! I completely forgot about this one! I'm soooo sorry.
I set it among my favorites (where it definitely belongs) also to remind me when i finish unpacking to comment on it...and it totally slipped my mind! My humble apologizes.

Anyway, this is a splendid shot and angle you found here!
The composition is in my opinion wonderful. It has just enough FG as it should, but also tones of depth and perspective.
The yellow flowers [what kind of cabbage were they again? :))] attract the viewer's eye very well and then lead it towards the horizon in the right side of the frame. Following the same line, you get to the ridge that takes you farther to the white rock, the center point of the shot and also the most important focal point. Afterwards, you find this lovely, deep and moody horizon and sky, that contrast with both the white rock and the yellow flowers, making a very aesthetic balance between darker and brighter tones.

Actually being there, i know it was windy and to get such a nice sharp shot of the flower also implied great timing and spot-on positioning. Congrats ti that, too.

Overall, with the incredible perspective that this view offers and the ultra wide agle of your lens, this is one of the best photos of the Old Harry's i've seen on the internet...no exaggeration!

BRAVOOOO! and TFS
Horia

PS: i blushed when i first read the note :)