School Daze
by essay

Comment:
Wow! Lovely shot - Is that really the true reflection in her eye? Very nice quality in every way - very well thought out and executed

Congratulations

Refuge
by Ristyz

Comment:
My Goodness - what beautiful eyes!

Are they really that amazing colour? What breed is the cat?

I really appreciate the balance of brightness, with the background streak of light a bit like a spotlight falling accross the pix. Without it, it would be a more ordinary shot. With it, it is a bit like your cat is peeking from behind the curtains sizing up the audience before coming out on to stage and giving a show!

Very nicely done - makes me want to do something adventurous with photographing my moggy (long haired tabby, 'Fluffy'- there's a cliche for you)

Congratulations on being such a good photographer - I am inspired!

The Fall
by ct

Comment:
Hmmn! Very good idea! I must have a go at this - guess if we rotated the clouds so they looked horizontal, it would look even better, and maybe cloned the 'bottom' of the 'cliff', so it comes back over to the right some, I could be happily fooled into a sharp intake of breath, and wondering at what a good friend to have sacrificed so much for a friend. No second replays on this one?

Twilight
by Ken

Comment:
My word - what a lovely shot! It manages to look extremely cold with the blue bits, but warm and cosy with the sunrise, especially on the water, and I think the glow or softening filtering adds to the warm feel. I suspect I would have warmed the blue, so it all looked warm, but that would have spoiled it, probably. Well deserved ribbon!

Houses Of The Holy
by pawdrix

Comment:
Nice shot - I think it must be awful living there, but your patience paid off

You commented on how hard to get rid of cars, etc. I think if you need to do this again, keep the camera on a tripod, and take several shots while the cars move positions, so that eventually, the whole of the front is captured on various pix. Then, using probably the one with most of the building showing, and overlaying it with one where there is more of any that was covered, you can use the erase to remove unwanted car. Then flatten. Repeat this until all the front is showing, and you have your person on too.

To get it all dead straight, use the distort or perspective tool, and your grid switched on in Photoshop, and pull the edges until the lines lie straight along the grid. I hope you don't mind me saying this. Nice shot however, and worth the effort

"What, no cheese?"
by timwest167

Comment:
Very nice idea! Creative and good use of shallow DOF. I'm guessing you superglued the rodent into a prepared hole in the loaf, OR you get 100% for patience! Either way, keep doing that thing you did to get this one - well done! Most deserved. I actually like the idea more than the first placed, which although a lovely shot, seems to be less thought-demanding than yours, though I bet the photographer had to wait and be very patient, or use remote and read a short novel while waiting.(I don't really think you superglued it ("no animal was harmed whilst filming", etc...)

Message edited by author 2008-02-20 06:06:21.

Winter Wonderland
by rinac

Comment:
Now, that's just showing off! ( You can tell I wish I'd thought of it!)- very good, when I saw it onscreen as the thumbnail, I had to do a doubletake to realise it wasn't just a loaf of bread put in where a mountain had been. But looking at it fuller, I see how well thought of it really was. The one with hamster in the hole in the loaf is good too, but I think yours is more subtle.... Well done and keep thinking like that!

Message edited by author 2008-02-20 06:10:53.

Ichthys
by gloda

Comment:
LOVELY SHOT. Well deserved. Sounds like you have some positive camera-friendly people at the Cathedral. I tried in Durham Cathedral, only to have about four people in clerical-type gowns converge on me, and tell me it would disturb 'the worshippers'. I wouldn't have minded, but I could only see one, about 100yards away! I pointed this out, only to be told 'the noise'. (I had taken about 4 without them hearing anything). I asked if they allowed Photography, only to be informed that if I paid £10, I could photograph immediately! I feel the worshippers are getting a raw deal, as I am sure they would not get a penny of the £10. I think next time, I will just hang the camera over my chest, and use the remote to fire it without anyone being the wiser. Don't contact them - they will probably ban photography per se. What really got me riled was I came about 12 Years ago with a photo group, and we took hundreds of shots with no trouble - and there were more worshippers then. Makes you wonder if it's money those in charge worship! I just may visit Canterbury myself....

Fly
by Chinarosepetal

Comment:
Well now, that's just showing off! ( the fly, I mean)

You must have the patience of a saint, and what a lovely rich set of colours - I live in England, and don't remember seeing flies with red eyes - just shows you what you miss if you don't look close enough!

Very, very nice picture. I wonder if they will ever produce a lens which will stop down to about f100 - so that you can get almost infinite depth of field?

I looked at a fly some 40 years ago through a binocular microscope, and it was scarily like this, but even greater depth of field. It's high time we had such lenses, but this is a very lovely picture, and you deserve your ribbon. All the best for your future ribbons!

Staring You Down
by Simms

Comment:
I think this is very nicely focussed on the end of the horn - making a point of it, in fact? However, it contrasts nicely with the fuzzy coat that to my mind makes the beast a sort of cuddly-rug type creature.

So, it makes me aware that 'this cat got claws', as it were. I wouldn't like to be in the same field as this, so you got courage in my eyes - I bet you used the long end of the 200mm though - sensible!

Congrats, anyway!