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My wife drove me to work this morning and her side windows were fogged up. Waiting at the light I looked left and saw the cross traffic on the road through the fogged window. I was able to take my camera out of the backpack, and squeeze 2 shots off before our light turned green. I wish I could have composed better, but the A pillar and Dannelle were blocking me. I am posting the original with no processing other than noise reduction and jpeg conversion, and my best crop. The first shot had only one headlight from a motorcycle in it.
It reminded me of the scene in Fantasia where the monks are walking thru the forest with lanterns, and Ave Maria is playing. Anyway sorry again for the long intro, but ya'll are probably used to that by now. I appreciate any and all suggestions, criticism etc. Thanks, John
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Like the first better. You could always add sort of monk shapes with the headlights as eyes...

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David Kilpatrick wrote:Like the first better. You could always add sort of monk shapes with the headlights as eyes...

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Further down the road I saw where an 18 wheeler T-boned the Jawas transporter, and they had to hoof it... Gonna take a while as short as they are :lol: As to the photo interesting w/ artistic value or no?
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I guess I'm not really digging it, but I appreciate the creativity and the boldness. Never say no to an experiment. If I had to choose a favorite here, I'd go with the first.
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Yeah, at first I thought it was pretty cool, then after I was working on it for a while I wasn't so sure. It isn't very balanced... But my wife tells me I'm unbalanced all the time/ :lol:
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