Burying the Anchor
by skewsme

Comment:
Fantastic! Meets the challenge better then 90% of these entries. Beautiful color, clarity, textures.....like the seaweed as a contrasting subject. 10.

Mixed Grain
by Stagolee

Comment:
Beautiful. Nice vases. I just finished an anagama firing and my vases look quite like these! (I also paint and do pottery....mostly...this photo thing is just an addiction! lol) Are they salt or wood fired? 10+

Birth of a Spirit
by MacDonald

Comment:
Fabulous! Sensual, alive, perfect in black and white! Mother Nature's clefts, oozings, secretions, moanings, flows and private mysteries.......spectacular! Oh yeah..... lolol....granular....that too!....amazing how sand and rock can look so alive! Water always helps!

10+ 1st place.

Forgery
by wei1108

Comment:
I would LOVE to do that!...just couldnt stand still long enough!

The Beginning
by jagar

Comment:
Intriguing faces......lovely textured fabrics, nice vignette.....perfect relaxed bond of true love......wait.... I HOPE they are really getting married......and not just models!!!lolol Are they dancers???
10

Yellow Toms
by Apollo2077

Comment:
Cadmium Orange medium damn it!......windsor yellow...... 10

sensing the storm
by posthumous

Comment:
It's amazing how in tune they are! Sweet pup! Hope she (he?) did'nt shiver too much and found a good warm spot to ride out the storm!

Where Did She Go?
by littlemav

Comment:
.....COME ON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! You are WAYYYYYYY better looking than that chick in the framed photo...in the photo! CELEBRATE!!!! Each day is a gift and stay in the moment....there is nothing to the past but memories and nothing to the future but hope or doubt. The moment is what we have.....and when we look through our cameras or do our art work.....WE ARE in the moment....>Savour this!!!!!! Congratulations on your win!

Funky Duck
by P-A-U-L

Comment:
.......whoops... I didnt mean to type "common"....but come on'!!!!!!! (encouraging the ole' guy whose right eye shows some skeptical reluctance to play....don't cha think?) :-)))) Changes the comment abit....Sorry....loved this shot!

Funky Duck
by P-A-U-L

Comment:
cute.......common dude...play that xylophone!!!!!!!!!!