Short Odds, a photo from Berkshire, England

Photographer's Note

Taken from Ascot Racecourse, not the best day for the races with a gloomy and cold day, but was enjoyable to visit one of the biggest horse racing venues in the world....and as an added bonus I left with the same amount of money as I walked in with.

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Pascale (10456) 2007-09-30 13:28

Bonsoir Brendan
Excellente photo avec une superbe netteté de l'enfant et un beau flou de mouvement du cheval.Les couleurs sont très belles.J'aime beaucoup cette composition
Bravo pour ce travail
Amitiés

photofiend (0) 2007-09-30 13:30

What a great shot! Cool to see a different viewpoint.

Framboisilla (5277) 2007-09-30 13:49

Hi Brendan,

Good shot with the focus on the little girl nicely fixed on the barrier ! I like the contrast with the horse moving behind. Bravo !

Stéphanie.

faubry (35447) 2007-09-30 14:13

hello Brendan, very funny shot, good composition decentred and speed is very well captured,
soon
francine

eleparc (24063) 2007-09-30 14:22

perfect shot! This was a great idea to focus on the child and let the horse be the BG rather than the focus of the ascott race photo ;-)

Voted!
Eric

tehanu_f (6896) 2007-09-30 14:33

Hi Brendan,
What a capture you have here! The shapness of the foreground and the little girl against the blurry action looks amazing. You handled it very well. You even managed to reflect England's famous weather. ))
Congrats.
Fusun

Iva_R (1352) 2007-09-30 15:29

Bonsoir,
Une composition très bien réalisée, avec une profondeur de champ qui met vraiment bien en valeur la scène. J'aime bien!
Iva

stiginthedump (1833) 2007-09-30 18:00

Nice title here Brendan, and one of your better ones as of late if you don't mind me saying so (the photos and not just the title though). The lines, the muted colours, the motion etc etc...great stuff!

smarcell (19965) 2007-10-01 2:12

A very smart composition, Brendan. The child is the subject, and the blurred horse means that something is happening in the meantime, but whop knows what the child is actually looking at.
All the components of the picture are then in their perfect position.

ktanska (40041) 2007-10-01 2:35

Hi Brendan,
No pompous hats on elderly ladies on this Ascot shot! Nice to see that it's possible to enjoy the place as is, not just a place to be seen at. Child's viewpoint well presented. Mix of static and fast moving subjects. Sky fits with the feeling, luckily it doesn't look completely flat.
Kari

yanseiler (20) 2007-10-01 5:18

Super good one, the speed is just perfect, the creamy bokeh is lovely, nicely composed with the structure which includes life, nice one...

vts_ch (2624) 2007-10-01 7:27

Hi Bendan,

Finnaly have a little spare time to visite TE...

Loving this one, simply

Vince

MKING (3054) 2007-10-01 7:35

Saw this on your flickr gallery, 'tis a shot and half! You've set the standard high when it comes to racing photography: timing is impeccable here.

It's Spring Carnival time here and I hope to make it to one of the major meets at Flemmington-- time and equine influenza permitting.

Did you end up even due to luck or because you didn't have a little flutter...?

sebinho342 (19329) 2007-10-01 8:54

Hi Brendan, kind of devil today for you considering all the "6" you have in your total account ;)
Beautiful one, excellent mux of motion / sharpness, i love the result, you pushed the detail and precision to caught a horse with a pink touch to fit with the young girl pullover
Great one

KevRyan (22956) 2007-10-01 9:36

You are so wrong Brendan - so absolutely fluting up the wrong tree on that line about leaving with the same amount of money as you went in with - this picture is worth a mint trust me - just choose who and where you're going to sell it - top notch mate - you left far richer than when you went in!

bw Kev

Things are looking so stretched for an Autumn get together - but just had an idea - you into street fairs -

http://whatson.charnwood-arts.org.uk/index.php?eventid=10519&mode=events&subareaid=&user=

this is my home town + maybe a quite day in the forest or around steam trains or some such.

greg64g (11193) 2007-10-01 13:32

hello Brendan
I have to tell you that i should comment more often your pics, you are a so great photographer, i love your style and work. Well i must say there are so great photogrpher in TE, thats hard to follow...This one is just perfect, so emotive.
thanks a lot to share this, i almost hear the noise of the horses running
greg

Dpbours (222) 2007-10-01 22:10

Hi Brendan,

Nice shot! Like the idea of the speed blur on the horse and the little girl hanging there. A pity of the beam on the same level as her head. But the cloudy day doesn't disturb at all! Thanks for sharing!

Dennis

aralda (1240) 2007-10-02 8:59

Fabulous! Great idea to focus on the kid and blur the horse and rider. The light is very good, too.
Raluca

designsoul (17843) 2007-10-02 17:24

Amazing work, Brendan. I probably would have blurred the little girl, you just kept your hand firm and spot this amazing scene so perfectly. Superb. The best way to shoot races, I'd say. Powerful.
sasa, back from budapest

Galeota (10352) 2007-10-03 3:44

Really cool shot, Brendan. I love the way this is articulated in several successive layers from the foreground to the background.

woladorsky (806) 2007-10-03 5:08

Cheers Brendan,

I think that this is a great picture, composition wise I would say excellent. The remaining traces of light of the horse passing by and the little kid just amazed probably looking at the horse that passed by a few fractions of a second before..just excellent!! No to talk about the contrast of the greyish sky and the green of the grass and its great sharpness. It is several pictures in one!

Great job and thanks for sharing

regards

Rolando

brevbrev14 (140) 2007-10-03 5:26

Hi Brendan, fantastic capture!
two great moments captured!
the position of the little girl and the wonderful action of the horse..
Another good one!
ciao!
Valeria

Furachan (0) 2007-10-04 4:26

Man, is that great, Brendan - a super sports shot, of course, at which you excel, but there's that sly poetic element creeping in as well. Really splendid, makes one smile from ear to ear.
Cheers,
Francis

macondo (20449) 2007-10-04 5:42

Hi Brendan. Just had a look at your recent work - really good, especially this one. You would think sharply defined wire fencing would be boring, but not in this context. Amazing that you managed to get a shot like this at Ascot with only the three living things in it. I gather this horse is running last, as the kid is looking at the rest of the field? Lovely light and superb and appropriate shallowness of field, or whatever you call the opposite of dof. Wonderful shot.
Regards,
Andrew

Leonie (8809) 2007-10-05 3:03

Hi Brendan,
This looks cool...I like the colours combination and the originality of the composition! Well done, Cheers Léonie

prezntime (3946) 2007-10-08 20:16

Man Brendan,
There are some great divisions in this shot...so much depth not having anything to do with aperture.
I love that the young girl is facing towards the direction of travel of the horse...somehow this provides some drama to the photo. There isn't resolution to the conflict...I.E., the horse is coming, she sees the horse...all is well. We anticipate the outcome, yet we don't really know. Movement and time, drama...excellent.

Chris.

Luan (12971) 2007-10-15 6:02

This picture is great, the motion against static, the white lines make your compo stronger !
Superb one, excellent timing
Luan

hispic (9658) 2007-12-19 4:28

Hi Brendan,
Very smart shot!
The combination of the running horse of the motion blur with about 1/30 slow shutters and children on the fence is so marvelous.
Best wishes, Hisashi

Prisley (1485) 2008-01-15 13:04

Voilà qui attire l'oeil sans aucun doute! Très belle réussite dans la capture du cheval au galop et de son jockey. Le contraste de la silhouette "fuzzy" vs. les lignes et la petite fille bien nettes fait fonctionner le tout impecablement!
Bravo, bien joué ;0)
Pris.

chriswhitley (2027) 2008-05-10 5:13

Hello Brendan. Just having a random look through TE and stumbled across this shot. I'm glad I did. What a great one. Love the movement of the horse compared with the sharpness of the child. Chris