2011 - Alone

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07-27-2011, 10:45 AM
Roman Kurywczak

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Out of the Box Image of the Week Hilary Hahn for week ending 6/24/2011 - Alone

Congratulations Hilary Hahn for your image "Alone" being chosen as the Out of the Box Image of the Week for the week ending 6/24/2011!!!

I have struggled with this image for the last 2 days trying to get the composition right and the right amount of texture to increase the foreboding nature of the approaching storm. I settled on a Maasai warrior walking to introduce a spot of colour and to give a sense of scale, poor bloke has been relocated from a nice walk in the evening with no hint of rain … :e3

I have cropped mainly clouds from the top but also have a little more foreground which I cropped off as it holds little detail or interest. Would be happy to have + and - thoughts and how to improve it as it has almost defeated me!

OP link: http://www.birdphotographers.net/for...read.php/85401
07-27-2011, 11:42 AM
Dave Mills

Hi Hillary, your struggle has ended with a big success. Compelling image! Well deserved congrats!
07-27-2011, 12:22 PM
denise ippolito

Nice work Hilary! Congratulation!:S3:
07-27-2011, 12:57 PM
Indranil Sircar

Congratulations Hilary! Outstanding and one of my favorite of yours!
07-27-2011, 08:25 PM
Harshad Barve

Congratulations Hilary, well seen and captured
07-27-2011, 10:50 PM
Tom Redd

Hilary, well titled and well composed. Congratulations on a moving image!
07-28-2011, 01:39 AM
Hilary Hann

Thank you all very much.
07-28-2011, 12:36 PM
Brendan Dozier

Congratulations, Hilary!
07-28-2011, 06:13 PM
Cheryl Slechta

Congratulations, Hilary:S3:
07-30-2011, 01:32 PM
Grant Atkinson

Super work Hilary, the colours and the comp are superb
Well deserved recognition for this one..
cheers
Grant
08-04-2011, 01:51 AM
Steve Kaluski

You 'dark horse' where have you been hiding this one, it's fantastic Hilary.

Big congratulations for this and as Grant said, well deserved recognition. :5
08-04-2011, 02:18 AM
Hilary Hann

Thank you Steve, your approval on this means a lot to me. I am very careful to only post in wildlife, images which have had minimal changes so I travel between wildlife and OOTB (but they are always wildlife related) as I push boundaries and envelopes towards a style which fits what I like visually. I'm trying to develop a way of producing the same style 'in camera' so that I can post and enter competitions legitimately but in the style I am developing. This is way harder than I imagined. :S3:
08-09-2011, 04:53 PM
Susan Candelario

You struggle paid off, Hilary. Very nice work and a big congrats for your IOW.
08-09-2011, 05:54 PM
Hilary Hann

Thanks Susan
11-07-2011, 12:24 AM
John Ippolito

A beautiful creation! Congratulations, Hilary.