On the river Styx
by kosmikkreeper

Comment:
10/10! Good luck (but dont beat me! :-))

Energy Source
by tomz

Comment:
10 out of 10, This is by far my fav, (apart from my own)"lines of note"

Modern Day Colosseum: The MCG
by hotpasta

Comment:
Go the mighty lions!!!! 9

Prickly Pear
by aimeethetoo

Comment:
anyone who spends that much time putting pins in to a pear deserves an 8 at least!

Warning - Don't eat vegetables!
by birkin

Comment:
i bet your kids think your nuts also!!

Multiple Me's :)
by prentice

Comment:
Me Me Me Its all about Me!

Alone in a Crowd
by Pedro

Comment:
cleaver

I've Seen Better Days
by deapee

Comment:
is that a Kenworth i see in the background! 8

:-
by mattmac

Comment:
ill give u an 8 just for the title!! :-)

I Am My Work -- the Thorn that Weeps, & Holds the Sky Entire...
by Bear_Music

Comment:
I hear you BEAR, and its a bloody nice shot too! Hey, as an after thought, maybe you could get a reflection of your face in the water drop then you could have jambed it up all the critics!!! (just a thought)

If I had joined DPC to obtain my masters in photography i might follow every chalange to the letter. But I didnt! I joined DPC for fun, encourgement and to rekindle my love for photography. I can understand some of the politics that go on in these threads and i believe that there are many very talented photographers (pros and amatures)who use this site for nothing more than forum to get their shots out to the masses and for the masses to admire their talents. But i can't understand why if i submit a close cropped shot of my kids dirty hands playing in the sand needs to be discected to bits because its not "this" or not "that" so DNMC?

My shot was MY interpitation of the challenge. Was it a portrait? maybe not, Was it within its environment? you can take a photo of a nurse on a beach but this would not be relevant to the environment. Was it portrait or landscape? who cares!! Kids get dirty, kids play in dirt (its the enviroment!) you can tell that the hands are a childs hands so do i need to show the face for it to be deemed a portrait? if people dont like what you've shot, let them express that with their vote but they SHOULD not pick it to pieces because it does not fall in to "their" definition of the challenge.

I enjoy photography for the emotion it can bring (in the images not in comments)
Thats my thoughts. What are yours?