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Featured 522 Days Ago by phototext - - 11 comments

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Beard said 523 days ago:

Not sure.

King said 523 days ago:

Gorgeous! Too bad that the pond is littered with the paper (I'm anti-litter), but that doesn't keep me from admiring this beautiful b/w image. High marks.

phototext said 523 days ago:

The story:

I was at Commonwealth Park (Canberra, Australia)early one morning to take some pictures of flowers etc when I came across this.

Someone from www.bookcrossing.com had placed books on all the seats in the park and someone else, for some unknown reason, had torn one up and thrown it in a pond.

A picture made in heaven. I took some shots and quickly the current had taken the pages away and the image was gone.

I've tried working on the image a couple of times before but wasn't happy with what I ended up with.
Sometimes these things are best left alone until the stars or something are just right and the image creates itself with you just as a conduit for the image to come to life.

Hummingbird said 523 days ago:

Wow.

myke said 523 days ago:

Nice idea. Maybe would have worked a little better for me with a tighter angle on one of the bits of paper and perhaps a lower angle.

derLITOGRAPH said 523 days ago:

very nice color and softness

mtmartini said 523 days ago:

I love the softness of this shot however I wish that the top portion that is blown out had been cropped, but then you would have lost all those extra pages. I do want to know the story.

Ana said 522 days ago:

Only one I've given all 5's to. This is the best of the theme. The very best.

King said 522 days ago:

Congratulations, Jeremy!

taikrixel said 522 days ago:

wow, a very soft and detailed image. like the composition of the papers and the plants. beautiful!

phototext said 521 days ago:

Thanks everyone. :-)

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