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aimzy says:

Bravo. The full size did it for me.

-voted as "saveme" (from Delete me! group
Posted 52 months ago. ( permalink )

djmacedonas says:

I want to save this, but lift towers, and cables kill an otherwise perfect action shot

-voted as "deleteme" (from the Delete me! group)
Posted 52 months ago. ( permalink )

짜디그노스 (Zadignose) says:

I guess I have to be a snowboarding enthusiast to get excited by this shot? Well...

-voted as "deleteme2" (from the Delete me! group)
Posted 52 months ago. ( permalink )

nepenthes says:

i think this is quite a nice photo!

saveme2
Posted 52 months ago. ( permalink )

Kiki J says:

I would save it if it had signature and border. :P

-voted as "deleteme" (from Deleteme! group)
Posted 52 months ago. ( permalink )

defekto says:

There are no flowers or children in this photo.
-voted as "saveme3" (from Deleteme! group)
Posted 52 months ago. ( permalink )

defekto makes a good point.
It would have been an automatic delete with a sunset too. ;-)

I'm not a big fan of wierd crops...
maybe this one was made for Cinemascope.

And the bare hills and the building with the shiney roof
don't jibe with my pre-conceptions of a 'Snowboard Shot'.

But this shot is just too good
and I can't see how you could have cropped it signifigantly better.

-voted as "saveme4" (from the Delete me! group)
Posted 52 months ago. ( permalink )

Tobyloc (again) says:

Oh kiki, you wrote EXACTLY the same thing on mine, you were pasting your sig/border enemies! and I thought I was special...sniff. As for the photo, that white house and the cable lines are bothering me. In the full size they still bother me. But to be honest, I just love the rest too much to care.

-voted as "saveme5" (from the Delete me! group)
Posted 52 months ago. ( permalink )

JJPhotos (formerly MfRf) says:

just to keep things balanced, i'm going to be a dissenter...
while i think it's a pretty good snowboarding shot, i think the amount of stuff showing at the bottom ruins it. when i see a guy flying through the air like that, i want to think about him 'flying through the air' — not about how in another second he's going to be 'smacking down on that dirty-ass snow'. seeing the ground below him ruins what magic this might have had.

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Posted 52 months ago. ( permalink )

michale says:

i like it a lot. i like the hints at context/contrast to the natural that the bits at the bottom give it. the color rocks.

-voted as "saveme6" (from the Delete me! group)
Posted 52 months ago. ( permalink )

ken mccown says:

the relationship of the foreground and background is really nice giving this a sense of depth. That gives it that drama, plus there's a bounty of snow in the front and it's rock in the back. Nice one!

-voted as "saveme6" (from the Delete me! group)
Posted 52 months ago. ( permalink )

arturlr says:

When I was studying in the university there were some teachers that wanted to appear bad or “knowledgeable” due to their non-sense criticize. This is a nice photo! Delete it only because there is no signature is non-sense. Come on, this could be a side note instead of criteria of deletion.

-voted as "saveme7" (from the Delete me! group)
Posted 52 months ago. ( permalink )

XpoPen says:

djmacedonas and MonkeyfacedRatfink expressed my beef.

-voted as "deleteme5" (from the Delete me! group)
Posted 52 months ago. ( permalink )

tanguero (BLOCK, rinse, repeat) says:

i'm with monkeyfart.

-voted as "deleteme6" (from Deleteme! group)
Posted 52 months ago. ( permalink )

tanguero (BLOCK, rinse, repeat) says:

@arturir: kiki has a signature issue, we all just try to look the other way.
Posted 52 months ago. ( permalink )

Aeioux says:

@all Thanks for the comments - On the subject of the lines (ski lift) and building, I did attempt a crop with them removed, but it caused more problems than it solved - it lost depth and the composition lost balance.

@ Michale & Ken - you guys simultaneously posted... think it's saveme8 / deleteme6 now

@Kiki J - lol!
Posted 52 months ago. ( permalink )