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author	Anonymous
subject	Nature
title	First Light On A Winter Day
date	5/17/2005 10:42:20 AM
details	Mono Lake
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blinks: 409.86	score: 9.253	voted: 126

rank: 1640	comments: 66	viewed: 8881
version: 1	recommended: 0	bookmarked: 3
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1	Geralyns Creations (just plain ole me! ) (5/17/2005 10:48:02 AM) Beautiful tones and colors
2	Sergei Samus (Serega to friends) (5/17/2005 10:52:19 AM) this is an absolutely fantastic photo. Perfect harmony of all objects, great stone structure on the foreground adds a good color contrast to the violet and golden prevaling colors. I also like the inclusion of this thingy . This photo reminds me of Darwin's works, although I'd expect a vertical format for this sort of scenery from him.
3	Kid Panama (5/17/2005 11:30:57 AM) Excellent in all respects.
4	Arno Hollander (Sniper 1) (5/17/2005 11:48:37 AM) a cracker image anon! congrats!
5	Marc Adamus (5/17/2005 11:53:46 AM) Much photographed, but this is among the very best I've ever seen from Mono. Absolutely outstanding image!!! 9.8
6	Jouko (5/17/2005 11:58:42 AM) Wow! FABULOUS SHOT! ILOVEIT!
7	Brites dos Santos (Artur JBS) (5/17/2005 12:08:30 PM) Spectacular view. Good light and reflections.
8	MarioP (5/17/2005 12:14:43 PM) magnificent tones: warm and cold...
9	Marc Guyt (5/17/2005 12:19:18 PM) beautiful colours and scenery you captured here. Well done. Looks like it could use a bit more USM, I miss some details in the rock (or reload a less compressed picture if you have room for more kb's)
10	Michelle88 (5/17/2005 12:47:21 PM) Fantastic .. great color
11	Hans Van Rafelghem (5/17/2005 12:48:50 PM) Beautiful image!
12	Kazimierz Morski (5/17/2005 12:49:20 PM) !!! :)K.M.
13	Rudi Van Gestel (5/17/2005 12:49:46 PM) Another nice crop, probably Sergei 's choice! The stone formation into the water looks slightly too bright to me! Nice image, but it looks quite unnatural to me! Colours seem a bit oversaturated imho! Nevertheless: eye-catching for shure! suggested crop >>
14	Ehdae (5/17/2005 1:12:52 PM) excellent photograph
15	Fred Vnoucek (5/17/2005 1:15:02 PM) yeah it is nice work!
16	Kris Bass (peter pan is so real )) (5/17/2005 1:15:18 PM) Shazam this is very sweet. The lighting and reflective glow on the water is top notch. Nice contrast.
17	Joel P Black (5/17/2005 1:22:34 PM) Very beautiful image. I not sure that I can decern the PS portion to this but I am aware that something has been applied. Darkroom is a darkroom after all. Well done.
18	CherylB (goodbye yellow brick road) (5/17/2005 1:36:57 PM) I like the very same thingy Serega likes. I am so glad you left it. I think what I like best is the way the water looks metallic. I am not fond of Rudi's crop.
19	joe bellantoni (5/17/2005 1:41:11 PM) Anon: this is a fantastic display of color and light...I don't understand (unless compression) why it no longer looks like a photo? Please don't get me wrong I like the image just wondering why the fg rocks are so pixelated. Is it a combination of more than one image and when it comes down in size it is getting this look? I will reserve my vote till I hear if you don't mind?
20	Igor L. (Igor Laptev) (5/17/2005 1:41:23 PM) Amazing!
21	Fernando Dias (5/17/2005 2:07:04 PM) Wonderful image!
22	Baku (Marcin Nawrocki) (5/17/2005 2:18:43 PM) superb!!!
23	Gianluca Posella (5/17/2005 2:39:14 PM) Fantastic!!
24	Arthur Ankh (5/17/2005 2:45:13 PM) Fantastic image!
25	Zenonas (5/17/2005 3:10:12 PM) Amazing view!
26	Biaku (Karol Kubiak) (5/17/2005 3:57:02 PM) Beautiful view!
27	Bill Houghton (5/17/2005 4:14:32 PM) Beautiful scene. Fantastic work.
28	keith taylor (5/17/2005 4:15:54 PM) magical
29	wasyl (5/17/2005 5:13:26 PM) Excelent job, amazing place captured in the right moment, great light. Congratulations:)
30	Hazel (5/17/2005 5:44:55 PM) Lovely scene - wonderful light!
31	hasan akcin (5/17/2005 6:10:13 PM) Beautiful scene. Fantastic work. thanks
32	MJFerron (5/17/2005 6:10:24 PM) Wow. A beauty. Author what were the techs on this? Film? Filters used? Thanks, Mike
33	Craig Doogan (5/17/2005 6:32:53 PM) Superb, well done.
34	Debi Joranco-Arellano (5/17/2005 9:54:18 PM) Wonderful shot of Mono lake!! It is such a unique place, I loved visiting there.
35	ckldybr (A perfect photo is just a click away) (5/17/2005 11:10:02 PM) I like how the rocks in the lake seem to stand out from the background. They compliment the scene, but are almost like a seperate entity. This is awesome. Bet it's a fabulous print. Take care. Barb.
36	Yuri Bonder (5/18/2005 1:16:24 AM) Beautiful 9.5
37	docmm (5/18/2005 1:18:31 AM) Well composed, in very special light. The reflections and colours are stunning.
38	Sergei Samus (Serega to friends) (5/18/2005 6:15:42 AM) quite an achievement to get both the top 1 and the potd jackpot for an anonymous photo :o). This is yet another proof of a true quality and artistic value of this photo.
39	Lorraine54 (cest la vie !!!! ) (5/18/2005 6:16:42 AM) A real stunner...congrats on a well deserved POTD.
40	Alex Uch�a (5/18/2005 8:16:11 AM) inspirational!!!!!!!!!!!
41	gdanger (George Dangerfield) (5/18/2005 9:13:37 AM) A spectacular nature scene John, a real wall hanger!
42	Awais (5/18/2005 9:14:15 AM) Excellent work. Is this computer generated imaginatio,. 9
43	Modest Blinker 1 (5/18/2005 9:24:54 AM) #42 gdanger(George Dangerfield): John?
44	Author (5/18/2005 10:53:50 AM) First, I would like to thank you all for your generous comments and votes. I came across a detail message on this site saying 'vote for the photo, not the photographer' so I thought I would post one anonymous photo to avoid any bias from both directions. And if this is a suprise to you, accept my apology. Second, the exif: Canon 1Ds, 50mm f/1.4, .4s @f/22, exposure mode AV @ -2/3. I don't recall of using any filter, but I might be wrong. #20: Joe, this is just one photo. All I did was applying level, saturation, dodge tool on the tufa, some touch up here and there because of the sensor dusts, and crop the top off. I have always had problems, like you mentioned, on tufa and on tree trunks especially I had only 120k available and the compression was at 60%. I will be more than happy to take advice from your expertise on how to solve this problem. #39: Sergei, a special thank to you for twice, giving me extra nice comments. #42: George, thanks but please share with me your secret on how to find out it's me.
45	joe bellantoni (5/18/2005 11:36:06 AM) #45 Author: Thank you for the info I understand now...the tufa has that look anyhow.I have found that if you have a very large file I bring the file size down just 100 pixels at a time and then save for web and sometimes I save for web again and the jpg compression sometimes helps this out...not all the time but sometimes on the 2nd save for web. Great shot...once again!
46	*SafetyBob** (5/18/2005 5:02:17 PM) Amazing!
47	Koduck (5/18/2005 7:35:56 PM) Great subject matter taken for granted, the tones just jump right off of my lcd!!! Excellent.
48	Mathew Eis (5/18/2005 7:40:13 PM) #45 It is possible to find out who an Anonymous author is, by subscribing to the comments, and then looking at the "To:" field on the e-mail message when new comments are made. This is something I have been meaning to let Seregi know about for a while. Not sure is this is how George found out or not.
49	Author (5/18/2005 11:59:14 PM) #49 Thanks, Mathew. It is brilliant to find out this way.
50	David (5/19/2005 2:07:31 AM) #45 Author: "George, thanks but please share with me your secret on how to find out "it's me."" You said it.
51	cARTerART (Claire Carter) (5/19/2005 11:58:38 AM) Beautiful light, great shot
52	Dan Cardiff (5/22/2005 12:44:51 PM) Excellent job!
53	Steve Terry (5/26/2005 6:48:11 PM) A wonderful location, captured at the perfect time of day. Superb!
54	FrankT ( pot'hbe'chug yay qa) (6/1/2005 2:15:34 AM) Great photo mister? anonymous, perfect composition. Just tell us where this was taken.
55	Bart Aldrich (6/3/2005 11:59:47 AM) Who among us wouldn't love to claim this as our own? Superb work. I bet I should know who did this too. ??? Also great to see fine landscape work out-dueling the 'critter' shots. I gave up here a couple of years back because nothing but cutsie animals and insect shots were domintaing the site. Yeah!
56	aloisio (6/15/2005 2:47:17 PM) exquisite shot. x cellent.
57	Akhtar (6/22/2005 9:35:32 AM) Wonderful, lucious image. It has the Darwin written all over it. Pure magic
58	TERESA L. ANDERSON (7/15/2005 3:36:29 AM) Absolutely Beautiful
59	Witold P (7/29/2005 5:12:16 AM) Pretty pretty landscape, beautiful colors and great composition
60	Derek Fogg (10/7/2005 11:22:06 AM) Absolutely incredible shot- the lighting is brilliant
61	David Rex (11/14/2005 6:46:51 PM) I just joined and cant vote yet, but if I could I would give this a 10 . One of the best I've seen.
62	Uma Sethuraman (M A H E S H) (12/28/2005 10:48:07 PM) Wonderful picture.
63	Baku (Marcin Nawrocki) (1/3/2006 8:16:23 AM) superb shot!!!
64	Champ (3/16/2006 5:19:42 PM) Love it!
65	aphoto4you (bianca thomas) (4/15/2006 12:38:54 AM) Well....hmmm....wow......ummmmmmmmmmmm...so much said about it....but THIS CAPTURE IS OUTSTANDING.hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm i just cant get enough...WOW....
66	Kafrifelle (Yves P.) (4/26/2006 4:55:23 PM) IMO, this is DW's work. Stunning shot anyways.
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