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Watch out behind YOU!!!


Watch out behind YOU!!!
Photo Information
Copyright: Richard Mayneord (richwm) Silver Note Writer [C: 7 W: 0 N: 10] (81)
Genre: People
Medium: Color
Date Taken: 2006-10-01
Categories: Humorous, Artwork
Camera: Canon EOS 30D, Canon EF 28-135mm f/3.5-5.6 IS USM
Exposure: f/7.1, 1/200 seconds
More Photo Info: [view]
Photo Version: Original Version
Date Submitted: 2007-04-13 3:29
Viewed: 598
Points: 8
[Note Guidelines] Photographer's Note
Kaikoura on the east coast of New Zealand's South Island is one of the best places in the world for whale watching. A deep ocean trough comes unusually close to the coastline here creating lots of nutritious plankton soup. And where you get lots of plankton you get whales. Often the whales come so close to the shore that it is possible to sit on the beach and watch them surface and dive!

Virtually the whole town is geared towards the whale watching industry as illustrated by this enormous whale painting on the side of a scuba-diving centre on the main high street - come on, you didn't think it was a REAL whale, did you?!

Tne image was rotated slightly and cropped in Photoshop otherwise it's as taken - I took several photos and looking back at them on screen I seemed to have great difficulty making the photos level. I guess the slope going up one way and the lower jaw of the sperm whale going up the other confused me somewhat! ;)

Rich

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Hi Richard
I think the diverging diagonals of the ground and the mural work well together, and excellent work with your inclusion of the bench-sitting tourist.
Good metering and framing.
Nice work
Rew

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  • Janice Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 3265 W: 267 N: 7730] (32966)
  • [2007-04-13 6:38]

Kia ora Rich. I like your pic here, quite amusing with the lady sitting on the seat and the whale peering over her head!
So many different angles here, and I think you have managed them well. Thanks for sharing,
Janice

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  • iso Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 1119 W: 62 N: 167] (27893)
  • [2007-04-13 7:18]

Very, very interesting as subject, a nice impact. The angle of the sidewalk with the one of the whale give something like a mouth, amusing !

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  • timtim Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 1057 W: 106 N: 560] (9568)
  • [2007-04-14 23:14]

nice comp great colours.

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