Florida To Houston

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Week 13 theme: GET PUSHED 24 March - 30 March

The team: Benman31 and basselal

Challenge 1: Collaborative Double exposure

Leopold (spending a vacation in Florida) and I (stuck in already-hot Houston with extremely busy and stressful stretch at work) agreed to do a collaborative challenge. The first installment is: Collaborative double exposure. We both take two pictures a day and send one per mail to our get pushed partner. He is free to process, crop and do whatever he wants with the picture but has to make a double exposure out of this shot and his remaining shot.

Here's my first double exposure. A two lane road in Florida leading to Houston Skyline.

The White Cat At The Window

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Week 12 Theme: High Key (17.03 - 23.03)

“Horror is The Removal of Masks”

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Week 10 Theme: DOUBLE EXPOSURE (03 March - 09 March)
ODC: The masks we wear

(The title is a quote by "Robert Bloch")

Calm Like A Bomb

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Week 10 Theme: DOUBLE EXPOSURE (03 March - 09 March)

Suits

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Week 9 theme: STREET PHOTOGRAPHY 24 Feb-2 March

Pay The Machine

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Week 9 theme: STREET PHOTOGRAPHY 24 Feb-2 March

Brief Encounter

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Week 9 theme: STREET PHOTOGRAPHY 24 Feb-2 March




"A fellow will remember a lot of things you wouldn't think he'd remember. You take me. One day, back in 1896, I was crossing over to Jersey on the ferry, and as we pulled out, there was another ferry pulling in, and on it there was a girl waiting to get off. A white dress she had on. She was carrying a white parasol. I only saw her for one second. She didn't see me at all, but I'll bet a month hasn't gone by since that I haven't thought of that girl.

"Bernstein" from the movie "Citizen Kane"
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I'm not usually a big fan of "selective coloring". Actually, it's not that simple. I don't really "hate" selective coloring but I feel that in the vast majority of cases it's "gimmicky" and overused. Still, I did use it on very few occasions where I felt it would work.

For this photo, I really tried to resist. I must have made 7 or 8 different versions with different edits. I kept going back to this one. I just felt it is the most striking. and after consulting with Gretchen, I decided to go with it.

I'm allowed 1 selective coloring photo a year. Arn't I?