PotW 11 September 2012

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PotW 11 September 2012

Postby the foto fanatic on Tue Sep 11, 2012 10:34 am

I spent some time working through the images posted here over the last little while with nothing particularly grabbing me.

Then I found this photo of Gerry's hidden at the bottom of a post. Straight away I was drawn into a "man vs the elements" scenario.
There's just enough post work to make this image stand out, and the small human figure seems to be dwarfed by the elements of sea, sky and rock.
I like it a lot.

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Kudos to Gerry for such an evocative image. Here is the original post:
viewtopic.php?f=11&t=42843&start=445937#p44593
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Re: PotW 11 September 2012

Postby sirhc55 on Tue Sep 11, 2012 11:55 am

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Re: PotW 11 September 2012

Postby biggerry on Tue Sep 11, 2012 3:29 pm

the foto fanatic wrote:the small human figure


not often i get called small :)
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Re: PotW 11 September 2012

Postby ozimax on Tue Sep 11, 2012 3:57 pm

Now this one is unique. Well done.
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Re: PotW 11 September 2012

Postby the foto fanatic on Tue Sep 11, 2012 6:01 pm

Did your tripod take this pic?
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Re: PotW 11 September 2012

Postby Remorhaz on Tue Sep 11, 2012 6:42 pm

[quote="the foto fanatic"] Did your tripod take this pic? [/quote]

See the first shot in this thread viewtopic.php?f=18&t=42859 - I'm taking a pic of Gerry taking a pic of himself...
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Re: PotW 11 September 2012

Postby biggerry on Tue Sep 11, 2012 8:57 pm

the foto fanatic wrote:Did your tripod take this pic?


Remorhaz wrote:
the foto fanatic wrote: Did your tripod take this pic?


See the first shot in this thread viewtopic.php?f=18&t=42859 - I'm taking a pic of Gerry taking a pic of himself...


Thats it, and with a 20 second timer delay and there you have it - although if ya know of a tripod that is capable of taking pictures for me let me know, that would certainly swing me to upgrade :)
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Re: PotW 11 September 2012

Postby aim54x on Tue Sep 11, 2012 10:34 pm

Congrats Gerry's Tripod!! Great choice Trevor
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Re: PotW 11 September 2012

Postby biggerry on Wed Sep 12, 2012 3:52 pm

alrighty, fine .... i will pass over all copyright to my tripod, well done tripod you have got POTW on DSLRusers :rotfl2: ... now get back in ya box and don't get a big head.
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Re: PotW 11 September 2012

Postby Steffen on Wed Sep 12, 2012 4:08 pm

[quote="biggerry"]alrighty, fine .... i will pass over all copyright to my tripod, well done tripod you have got POTW on DSLRusers [/quote]

The decent thing for your tripod to do would be creating its own DSLRUsers account. ;)
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PotW 11 September 2012

Postby Geoff on Thu Sep 13, 2012 3:19 am

Well done Gerry! Awesome image.
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Re: PotW 11 September 2012

Postby Mr Darcy on Thu Sep 13, 2012 11:15 am

Well done. I'll have to stop rubbishing that tripod now.
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