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Looking for Blue Skies
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February 23 2006:
Looking for Blue Skies

An entry as part of Lee’s ‘Umbrella Challenge’.

It’s been dull and damp here today, but it wasn’t really raining hard enough for many people to have brollies up, and then I noticed how many of them were black or dark grey. Aren’t we British dull and conservative?

But then I spotted some people trying to promote Oxfam with blue umbrellas. I felt duty bound to give them my phone number, but I just ‘hope’ I didn’t give them a wrong number ;->

This was before it started snowing

Other images in the challenge

John
Faye
Beverley
Lee
Laine
Bob





Photoshop:
Cropped and Resized

Canon EOS 300D Digital Rebel
1/60s f/14.0 at 17.0mm iso400 full exif

other sizes: small medium large original auto
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Jan Koster02-Dec-2006 20:07
Great idea, beautiful composition!
Guest 03-Mar-2006 14:51
beautiful shot, simple and interesting, looks like this is as much a part of photogear as a tripod ,in english rainy conditions:-)
Karen Stuebing24-Feb-2006 11:56
Great abstract with the ribs of the umbrella and the water droplets. Snow? I thought it hardly ever snowed over there.
Carol E Sandgren24-Feb-2006 02:41
Blue the color of the sky you WANT it to be. I love the abstract of the unbrella strokes!
b-w studio24-Feb-2006 01:01
great eye to see this.
Guest 24-Feb-2006 00:53
Lovely blue and nice lines.
I'll have to start looking out for these challenges.
Just like the PBASE meet, they seem to provide so many different perspectives on similar subjects.
Craig Persel24-Feb-2006 00:08
Love the color, light and lines. bravo.
Guest 23-Feb-2006 23:21
Beautiful Ray - the others have said everything else already. Vote
Gail Davison23-Feb-2006 23:09
hahah. Ray you are so funny.
Wenche Aune23-Feb-2006 23:02
Beautiful colour and lines. Love the droplets. V
Gilles Navet23-Feb-2006 22:48
Great idea, perfect use of blue tones and light, perfect "cadrage" too
Plain, effective and beauty
Vote for all these qualities
Gilles
Bob Floyd23-Feb-2006 22:04
I really like the color and the details in the rain drops. Well done.
Guest 23-Feb-2006 21:04
nice title !
Guest 23-Feb-2006 20:10
Yes why ever should umbrellas be black
JW23-Feb-2006 20:00
Thought it was the new Wembley at first, Ray!

Nice, crisp image. Brolly-tastic!
Roy Birger Nilsen23-Feb-2006 19:49
A very good shot of something I can relate to!Splendid comp and very good colour-tones.:-)
Jola Dziubinska23-Feb-2006 19:44
Very good angle and details. Well done.
Guenter Eh23-Feb-2006 19:38
It`s so simple and looks so perfect! The droplets, the graphical elements and this wonderful blue - Bravo and my vote!
fred_il23-Feb-2006 18:56
Well done, Ray!
laine8223-Feb-2006 18:35
I can see a star in your heavenly blue umby.!!
beverley harrison23-Feb-2006 17:49
very nice ray, i think we have the same tastes in umbrellas!! as you will see!!
Marisa Livet23-Feb-2006 17:46
Doo-dloo-doo-doo-doo
Doo-dloo-doo-doo-doo-doo
Doo-dloo-doo-doo-doo-doo
Doo-dloo-doo-doo-doo-doo...

I'm singing in the rain
Just singing in the rain
What a glorious feelin'
I'm happy again

Ray, I find this picture marvellous, all the little droplets, the light, the texture...How can you be so talented?
Marisa
Jim Ross23-Feb-2006 17:45
Good shot... I think we have sent all the snow down south this year, we hardly had any.. :-)
Sharon Rogers23-Feb-2006 17:42
wonderful shapes, reminds me of a flower
Focus23-Feb-2006 17:41
Beautiful!!!......love the color and the lines with the water being an added bonus....GMV
Lee Rudd23-Feb-2006 17:40
a great study in line and light
Zak23-Feb-2006 17:40
very nice indeed!
Faye White23-Feb-2006 17:34
beautiful color and comp - love the droplets!