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Challenge #10 in the A picture can say a thousand words series. Hosted by Boasty911.

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Walking with Sadness

by Vinter

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This man walked across the bridge with his dropped down looking only high enough to not walk into anyone. There is a sadness to him, as if he's going day to day waiting for his time to reunite with a love one he lost.

Camera:	Sony Alpha NEX-7
Lens:	Sigma 30mm F2.8 EX DN
Submitted:	Wednesday, 13th June, 2012 13:49 (GMT)
Taken:	Wednesday, 6th June, 2012
Focal length:	30 mm
Shutter speed:	1/1250 sec
Aperture:	F4
ISO:	400
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Views:	556
Galleries:	View this photo in Vinter's gallery

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Total comments: 9

Best entry in this challenge.

9 upvotes

Very apt photo for the challenge. I think the way the man's eyes are in lline with the bridge railing and the continuing downward curve of the railing really adds to the feeling of sadness.

2 upvotes

Nice picture.

Some may wonder why 13 times 5,0 ratings and 14 times 0,5 ratings for the picture #6 (the image is available in my gallery).

It is probably, the work of someone I exposed for using multiple fake accounts in the challenge who ended two days ago: "Summer is coming".

The revengeful photographer is on a mission...

Please don't blame the winner of this challenge, he has nothing to do with the results.

3 upvotes

I think a photo of the person that did this voting could have won because they are a sad person indeed.

2 upvotes

Are you accusing me of cheating?

0 upvotes

No Vinter!
If you read properly, I am doing the opposite, saying that the high amount of 5,0 votes do not come from you but someone who is targeting my images and upgrading others.
I wrote this for others in this challenge not to think you did it.

1 upvote

Well I appreciate you bringing your business with someone trolling you onto my photo's comments. I can only see this as you suggesting I won because someone voted you down and me up. Thanks for sullying the fun of winning my first challenge on here. Kind of rude.

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2 upvotes

Well, IMHO this picture is well representing this feeling and Vinter deserved to win. I like this photo very much, it really tells a story.
The fact that Werli Francois is receiving plenty of 0,5s it's real but it seems deriving from some situation that we cannot know but that only dpreview can resolve.
Anyway, in my humble opinion, none of us should "ruin" the fun of winning a challenge if the winner is not a cheater!
Congratulations for your picture.
Stefano

9 upvotes

Many challenges results have been screwed up lately and I am sure this one has been too.

If we look at a normal challenge result, the average voting ratio for a challenge with 50 images is 500 to 750 votes, makes 1 to 10 or 15. The voting ratio seems similar what ever the challenge size.

In this challenge the voting ratio is more than double the average. Adding to that the extreme amount of votes outside the scale in many images, it seems obvious that the votes have been manipulated.

If I did not say anything, I am sure some may have wondered why the image #1 has received 11 times 5,0 votes, #6 has received 14 times 0,5 votes and even the latest images in this challenge 2 to 3 times 5,0 votes.

Looking at every other challenges in the last few weeks, a winning image will receive on average 2 to 4 votes with 5,0 including challenges of 100+ images.

I only wanted to bring to the attention of everyone, that the photographer of the winning image is not responsible for it.

2 upvotes

Total comments: 9

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