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Published: 2009-07-05 12:28:31 +0000 UTC; Views: 1405; Favourites: 175; Downloads: 1
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Awesome daytrip to Cancale withHOT - HOT - HOT
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Geometrically perfect. Great contrast between the ocean and sky's green-and-blue versus the red-and-white of the boat.
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... and it was SUCH a hot day
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Eine wunderbare Aufnahme...Β die Aura des Sommers.
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Danke - sehr sommerlich, in der Tat. Stimmt genau !
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also good for the general mind !
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Very nice by the way, Where ever it is. Β Β
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Thanks, Donald 
(no worries - this is almost on the border between Normandy and Brittany 
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I scrolled way down, we certainly had an interesting conversation when you first posted this!
It's still a wonderful shot. Those perfect layers of color, and the boat in just the right place.
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"leather studded kiss in the sand"? 
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i wonder if someone at dA thought that up or some random word thing did it
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You wouldn't believe that this is the Atlantic Ocean near Saint Malo - Bay of Mont Saint Michel, btw.
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You're right...it has a very South Pacific feel to it.
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it had very South Pacific temperatures as well that day ...
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Thank you, dear
It was such a HOT day. It must have been nice to have a little breeze out there ....
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But why didn't you go for a swim? Nobody to watch over your camera?
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Maybe because I was always familiar with boats, so I didn't have to swim 
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Atlantic Ocean blue 
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aah, it must be very close
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pretty way up north, actually. and about the most enormous tides of the world. [link]
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Was fΓΌr ein aufregendes Schiff. Die Takelung gefΓ€llt mir!
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Eine echte Yawl war das ...
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Yawl sind a) selten und b) dann noch mit Gaffel-Takelung ...
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β¦ I know this guy! A good friend of mine! He told me this trip in Cancale, a hot hot hot day! If you want, you come and we trip again! 
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This IS interesting. Do you know what he is doing these days? I sort of lost contact
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.................I love it, another *zen* vision...
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In a way, yes. It was SUCH a hot day
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Unconventional composition. But it works.
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mmmh - do you really think so? I thought it was rather too conventional
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Your placement of the sailboat so low in the composition is one aspect that is unconventional. Most (IMO) would have placed the boat higher up in the photo.
Your use of negative space is what really stands out here. The entire middle of the photograph is basically subject and contrast free. That, to me, is not done very often. And even more rare, is to do this and make it work.
Both items contribute to give this photo a scale of the vastness of the earth (both sea & sky) to the sailboat. It works here in a simple and pleasing manner. It is the layers of colors that keeps my interest in this photo of an unconventional composition.
I hope this makes sense.
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Kind thanks for these observations and very thorough analyses. I guess it came as close as it can get to what I had in the back of my mind.
For there is one additional point here which makes the picture interesting for me. It is the fact that calmness and vastness of sea and earth (as you say) oppose very strong colors and color contrasts (between the boat and the sea).
Thanks again.
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