Charging Pig
by Pug-H

Comment:
Looks more like a kissing pig.

Winter sea
by Rino63

Comment:
Beautiful pic. Is that dirt, though? Not sand?

municipal dirt
by aplomb76

Comment:
Is that dirt? Looks like gravel.

miner
by guillermo21

Comment:
Nice picture, but looks fake (i.e., looks like the dirt was applied).

Exhilaration
by escapetooz

Comment:

Originally posted by hotpasta: this was my choice for the winner...so congrats on moving up to ribbon status...wish your image was on the front page a little longer...the cheats seem to make it bad for all of us. I have won two ribbons like you just have...thanks for sharing the outtakes as well... This image conveys life and vitality...the cheat's one looked like death...I don't know how the voters vote sometimes

Yeah, no kidding! What's up with people voting for images that have no connection to the challenge? There were a lot of great images in this challenge that depicted life, but lacked any semblance of celebration. Images that I would have given a 10 to, I gave a 5 to for not meeting the challenge. And, believe me, I looked hard and gave the benefit of the doubt wherever even a hint or metaphor of a celbratory aspect could be found.

Exhilaration
by escapetooz

Comment:
Congrats! I'm glad to see you ribbon. Even if that guy hadn't cheated, your pic was more deserving because his picture did not meet the challenge. There was no celebrational aspect to it. Whereas yours is dripping with celebration. Good job!

Shooting The Flame
by Transit

Comment:
Ok, now I'm still quite the novice at photography. But, it says that the ISO was 100 and the shutter speed was 1 second. How is an ISO of 100 fast enough to perfectly expose a bullet that is traveling at somewhere near 2,000 feet per second? Second, how is it that, on the left side of the screen, the bullet stayed in one spot long enough for a perfect exposure, whereas on the rest of the screen it was just a blur? It's a cool picture; but I don't think it's really a stopped-motion picture of a bullet in flight.

On The Battle Field
by Transit

Comment:
That's one of the best shots I've seen on this site.

on his day off.jpg
by ChimericImager

Comment:
I think it's f'ing hilarious and could be sold as a poster.

Life in the city of brotherly love
by quiet_observation

Comment:

Originally posted by Hotshot7: I always thought pretzels were a Noo Yawk thing, but if they are big in St Louis too, so much the better! Maybe if the big archway thingy had been in the background, framing the pretzel...

St. Louis???!!! The City of Brotherly Love is Philadelphia.

If you had held up a cheese steak, I would have understood.