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Perth City
Published: 2005-02-13 08:49:58 +0000 UTC; Views: 37479; Favourites: 774; Downloads: 6076
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This photograph was shot a couple of weeks back. This morning firemen finally got a huge fire threatening eastern suburbs under control - 16,ooo hectars of land was already lost. The smoke from that fire is what created the thick, orange blanket of fog you see laying over the city. Though I didn't care much for the smell, the smoke gave the light an extra warm tone this morning.________________________________________
Location: Perth City, Western Australia Camera: Nikon D70 Optics: AF-S Nikkor DX, 18-70mm Filters: Polarizer Exposure: 1/80 sec - F/7.1 Photoshop: Resized > cropped > framed > signed & titled________________________________________
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Many thanks to ~scoota269 for suggesting this one for a Daily Deviation, and to `mirrorkills for featuring it. To everyone who took the time to leave a comment and/or added this shot to your favourites, thank you so much for the feedback, critique, support and motivation.
-Thomas
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Comments: 302
so full of interesting color, red palms and green to yellow water! very soothing!
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Fantastic photo, one of the best which I've ever seen. Great colours, light, but the best is composition...just brilliant. 
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That's nice.
Perth rocks! In a lame sort of way.
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Truly a splendid capture right here, full of integrity & class. Not only have you nailed a sheer brilliant composition, but the vividness of the photo, the colours, & the scene really adds to it, even with all the complicated layers of elements, they all seemingly draw a great perspective & composition. & to top it all off your use of the border & where it lights & fades even causes your eyes to focus on the image, something that requires skill is a good use of a border, & you pulled it off in style.
Furthermore i would say, everything from the varied rippled amongst the water, to the silhouettes of the ducks amongst the vibrant lake, & to the half dark, & yet glowing tree's, & then, a magnificent view of Perth, the capture of lighting as it hits the buildings, & the way you have spaced everything out truly makes this a powerful scene, truly photography. The bench almost centre of the image seems to draw a focus point, as not so your eyes wander aimlessly, you show great skill in knowing how to setup the view of your images, i truly applaud that.
The sky gradient is warm like the furious bushfire, & yet, soothing, like a peaceful rest. There is truly nothing i can really critique in this image, even the placement of your title text & signature dont distract your eyes, it just all fits in, beautiful work. You have done a very good job, & although it was a while ago now, you definitely deserved the Daily Deviation feature, this is a piece of artwork indeed, you have every right to call this master photography. Keep up the great work!! 
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Stunning. Absolutely beautiful..
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The beautiful colours of the water and haze in this shot deserve a fave from me. Brilliantly captured!
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i love it how you took the photo with the lake in front of the river, very nice touch
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A super shot of perth skyline. Forground is most impressive.
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Stunning! i love the tones, the colours.. composition. Everything about it. Wonderful
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*dies of shock* this must be the one photo in which the city looks good. I love your work.
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i always thourght of perth as a desert city.... like i alway think of WA as the wastelands of aust.
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I'm really impressed by the compositon and the number of plane in this work
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wow, the colors and composition are amazing, really love this, great work
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'Fantastic ~ you have an amazing eye for the shot!
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OH MY GOD, i live there
awesome capture.
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oh man this is lovely
oh it was a daily deviantion..i could see why!
lovely, i got to fav it, the colors are the best ever!
not i must check out ur gallery!!!
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Cool pic... This brings back some fond memories I have of this cool city
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the colours, composition, contrast...everything - amazing.
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magnificent view..... this shot is just sublime......
Loto.
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This is so beautiful. You are an amazing photographer.
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Wow thats wonderful. Such a shame about the fire but it did make an incredible photo. Amazing colours. The light and dark are wonderful.
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Looks very nice and awesome from foreground to back...great work.
Greg
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ohhh, I remember this day. It was horrible- everything was orange. 
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what a beautiful photograph!
i like the color and composition
very much! excellent work.
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The all too familiar Bush Fire Haze. The worst part is Perth's remoteness, noone else in the country cares!
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