Lua no Greenville - 1st Prize March 2009 (Heritage)

salehyar, on May 12, 2009, said:

Hi Faraon

Do not think about those offensive words, you are a winner and enjoy the site

Congratulations, It deserves the Prize...

very well done

Majid

sefa_atik, on May 13, 2009, said:

Fazla söze gerek yok. Tek kelime ile mükemmel.

Topseee, on May 13, 2009, said:

Sincere Congratulations for Your Lovely Photo & Prize.

Very Best Regards!

Topseee

Crise Marín de Espin…, on May 13, 2009, said:

Jealous?

I got the second prize (Heritage) in February. If you visit the awards in February, you can see it. I won the prize with a superb picture. Nobody discussed my picture. Now you have reason to be jealous.

Guía arquitectura, on May 13, 2009, said:

"evoke emotions or memories of the past, especially your hometown/motherland": motherland isn't mother's house; hometown isn't home in your town. All the world understand the meaning of the word "Heritage".

I agree with the critic of Crise and Yofillol I don't see jealous attitude, it is a constructive critic about quality of your picture and a critic to Panoramio to accept this picture in Heritage cathegory. When the river sounds...

R & F Faraon, on May 14, 2009, said:

Thank you very much Topseee, Sefa and Salehyar for your kind words. You make me smile!

R & F Faraon, on May 14, 2009, said:

Guia architectura. I said before that I accept your critics. Maybe it's a problem of of the meaning of word. Hometown isn't necessary home, but the it can be too in my opinion. But these categories are confuse sometimes. You can put the same photo on Travel and Scenary, for example.

Crise said "Por otra parte, la composición de la foto deja mucho que desear: las líneas de la perspectiva conducen al ojo del que mira hacia el centro de la toma, el reparto de masas es completamente simétrico, la luz es deficiente, la dimensión del color es sumamente pobre, las sombras ahogan la escena, la posición central del sol distrae la atención del espectador..... todo ello, entre otras cosas, conforman una fotografía exclusivamente destinada a las últimas páginas del álbum familiar de su creador."

Like I said, I'm not that good in spanish, but I think I understand the meaning. Thanks God that the majority of people doesn’t make “constructive criticism” like that! He’s ridicularizing the photo. It’s is called envy or jealous! He doesn’t even notice that there is a moon in the picture and not a sun!!!

Crise, you’ve got a 2nd prize right? Congratulations! but I guess you wanted the 1st, don’t you? I hope you don’t think only photo taken on a cemetery deserves to be on Heritage category.

Crise Marín de Espin…, on May 14, 2009, said:

Sun ... moon ..... Does that invalidate the rest of my arguments?. Can you give me some photographic approach that makes a good picture in your photo? I do not like your picture. And I have proven with photographic criteria, your picture is technically poor.

For other hand, my photo of the Cementerio de Colón, talks about the history of a city. Talk of an artistic style. These are stones that have survived historical and speak of a society.

Guía arquitectura, on May 14, 2009, said:

Da igual Crise, el problema no es la foto, el problema es que ha sido aceptada y votada por los mecanismos que permite Panoramio. Posiblemente nadie esperaba que fuera a ganar y muchos la habrán votado en un intento de intercambio de votos o por aburrimiento de promoción.

Ahora como ya no está permitido el spam, cambiarán las cosas, eso espero, aunque hay muchas más cosas que deben cambiar. El concurso por ejemplo debería dejar de llamarse Concurso, pues no lo es.Se podría llamar "Promoción Panoramio mayo 2009" o "Carrera de marketing mayo 2009"... Total, que es un concurso internacional sin premio: NADA.

Las categorías creo que no son mas claras para permitir que cualquier foto valga para cualquier categoría. Esta misma foto puede valer para "viaje" para "escenas" (que es su caso pues es su casa) "lugar inusual" (para un esquimal lo será igual que para nosotros lo son sus aburridos paisajes nevados", e incluso a pesar de lo rebuscado, "viejos tiempos o heritage". Así nadie tiene que perder el tiempo en aceptar o no las fotos. El trabajo lo hacemos solo nosotros, y nos toca acatar los veredictos.

R & F Faraon, on May 14, 2009, said:

Guia So we agree about the contest and its categories. It's a lit bit confusing.

But I disagree with you about marketing. This is very very relative. The promotion makes the photo to be more visited, but not voted. This photo has around 400 views when it was choosen. There some with much more than 2000 and did not get a prize. I do have posted some links for my contest photos, there were 4 photos competing among themselves and the users choose this one as the best. In addition I say this is a unique shot! I didn't see any photo similar to this one here on panoramio, that also account for.

But now the rules changed. I disagree but I'm ok.

Another time I answer to Crise. I'm bored right now. He wants to ridicularize my shot.

©-Miguel A. Rodrígue…, on May 14, 2009, said:

La foto esta bien, pero tanto como para darle un premio.

Os doy la razón a todos, si no hubiera sido por los mensajes masivos no hubiera ganado, ya es hora de que panoramio tomo la decisión acertada de catalogarlos, como SPAM, y si la foto no se sabe muy bien en que categoria inscribirla, saludos, a todos, desde Palencia, Miguel

Ömer Tanoğlu, on May 14, 2009, said:

CONGRATULATIONS FOR YOUR AWARD....

© Gökhan TOPALOĞLU, on May 14, 2009, said:

Wow very very nice shot and color..

NURİ ERZAİM, on May 14, 2009, said:

CONGRATULATİONS ! For your contest first prize. Greetings from Turkey, Nuri.

saykut, on May 14, 2009, said:

Congratulations for your prize.Greetings.Saykut

googlebeycan, on May 15, 2009, said:

!!! This ! photo ! is ! not ! real !!!

Onixy, on May 15, 2009, said:

Very good nighttime shot!

googlebeycan, on May 15, 2009, said:

Not real foto! http://j6psla.bay.livefilestore.com/y1pK0lGdb1KHU6OMqVGydOrEQLicNEHTtb_-PhDCPL0U5tHfDaw1ammJBEP30L5QhNw2Z461VrkB6YQPnZ881kztKTaZmkH1a3X/not%20real.jpg

R & F Faraon, on May 15, 2009, said:

I don't understand turkish!

But I'll declare y it again, my friend: I afirm that I took this shot with my own digital camera and the only edition I made was reduce the size of it

I can say also that there was light on the street I took the photo and there was a shining moon as you can see!

I'm glad that the photo was so superb that there is people thinking it was a fake!

Thank you very much also to Onixy, saykut, nurì, Gokhan and Ömer. A hug from Brazil.

kenblue, on May 15, 2009, said:

这个光感好神奇啊。。