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"The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera." ~ Dorothea Lange
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You live in a beautiful place Aine..
I like very much the way you composed your picture in #1.
#2 is also very nice.
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Forgive me but I think the first one can be improved by cropping the lawn on the right which adds no value. I think it works better is you crop about 1/4 of the bottom vertcally. I think that color distrotion technique works best when there is no small detail. The leaves look good--impressionistic. But the ducklings swimming on the pond do not.
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I think #2 works quite well. The ducks are easily distinguishable. The silhouette of a duck is well known and easily recognizable - thus lending itself very well to an impressionist treatment.
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I like the first in preference to the other two.
The second has a dreamy quality somehow but not my style. Ducks are Canada Geese.
The third I like the angle of shot.
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I appreciate your comments everyone. I was pretty excited about the second photo myself, because it got a finalist position in a contest I entered awhile back. Even though it didnât win, I felt happy that it got some recognition out of about 35,000 photos.
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They are all beautiful and I like the warmer tones in the las tone better than the first post. I also feel "the rock" fits better this time. Perhaps the highlights on the rocks are a little too blown though.
I just love the colour in that second photo.
Canon stuff.