Kim,

With my image I wanted show how the human body decays with the age.

Personally, I think that at 200 Kts the skin fluttering will be insupportable. The airspeed is not relevant for the picture message.

Please, see again the image, surely you will understand what I mean.

Thanks for your time.


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Dirk TROTTEYN.
K10D+ Sigma 18-50 1:2.8 DC Lens.

Apologize if I ruined the morning coffee of any forum member with my image.
John, you are the moderator, so feel free to remove my post.

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Dirk TROTTEYN.
K10D+ Sigma 18-50 1:2.8 DC Lens.

What you see isn’t an elephant trunk. Is my left arm in a wind stream of 90 knots (the PA-18 cruise airspeed).

The fluttering skin becomes together with the pilot age.




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Dirk TROTTEYN.
K10D+ Sigma 18-50 1:2.8 DC Lens.

Lilly,


Although in a competition I think is not ethic to comment about a rival image before the judging, I feel necessary to express my deep and preoccupant impression your image shook my soul.

It makes me remember this dismal image where a soldier was shooting directly the head of his victim, that all the world showed some years ago; to this popular “Russian Roulette”, where for money (in these communities) people die. The childhood prostitution and so on…

Very impressive shot Lilly. I think this kind of images is one of the roles our contemporary photography is compromised with.

For the enormous dramatic content of the image, I think, furthermore than winning the Pentaxusers competition, is meritorious for The Pulitzer Prize (Breaking News Photography).

Well done Lilly. And make the world know your image.-


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Dirk TROTTEYN.
K10D+ Sigma 18-50 1:2.8 DC Lens.

What is The Ingenio Concepción?

Tucumán economy resources come principally from the sugar industry. Actually 15 ingenios (sugar factories) makes the province production grow up 1,500,000 to 1,700,000 sugar tons by year.

The ingenio Concepción is the greater sugar producer in Tucumán. Using sugar cane as raw material, his annual production is rounding 500,000 tons (about the 30% of the total production of the province). Around 2,300 workmen in factory an in the cane production fields converts the Ingenio Concepción in one of the most attractive manpower occupier. Also, Concepción is owner of 50,000 acres with cane production.

Started his production in the earlier 1879 under the direction of Don Alfredo Guzmán (owner), Concepción actually has the capacity for process 24,000 tons of raw cane per day with a efficiency index of 1:12 (1 cane ton = 120 kg sugar). Ingenio Concepción and Ingenio Ledesma (province of Jujuy) are the two leaders of argentine sugar production.


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Dirk TROTTEYN.
K10D+ Sigma 18-50 1:2.8 DC Lens + Piper PA-18 airplane.

Congratulations Lilly, I’m not surprised with Galot`s decision. You where the winner after post your image!

Yesterday I reed in Wikkipedia the Sebastiao Sagados`s biography and showed his images… Impresive…

Well done Lilly and a great judge Galoot.-


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Dirk Trotteyn

Ingenio Concepción...




Complete EXIF data adjunted.

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Dirk TROTTEYN.
K10D+ Sigma 18-50 1:2.8 DC Lens.

Nimitz,

I like much No 3. Opportune shot. The baby eyes are saying thanks mom. IMHO I think would be better the focus a bit after (at baby eyes plane).

No 1 is a sculpture fountain? A bit more generous cropping for referencing the spectator in the image should work better here.

No 2. Looks great. What lens for this approach?


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Dirk TROTTEYN.
K10D+ Sigma 18-50 1:2.8 DC Lens.

Ladies and gentlemen,

It looks like this week will be a colorful competition, so I uploaded mine in color to. But I can’t resist how sepia looks… Out of competition, here it is…

"The truth, the falsehood..."




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Dirk TROTTEYN.
K10D+ Sigma 18-50 1:2.8 DC Lens.

Thanks for the C&C. Interesting observation.

Not intentionally made. I filled the frames in a purely randomized way.
For each competition I make a special folder in my HD where I put all the entrants’ images with a new filenames (i.e.: “6-lenscape.jpg”) for avoid file chaos. At closing time I see all the images in a slideshow and select my favorites and writes them in another folder called “My favorites”, as you can see, the way I access the images has a double random seed.

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Dirk TROTTEYN.
K10D+ Sigma 18-50 1:2.8 DC Lens.