A day at the beach
by LalliSig

Comment:
Fantastic tones and lighting. Great depth of field, that and the tones adds a somewhat desolate feed to the image.

Mirror Mirror ....
by ekmai

Comment:
Beautiful image. Nice lighting and good choice to flip the image. I think it looks better with the top image showing a more direct view of the face.

Liquid Lines
by FromDaRock

Comment:

Originally posted by InnaN: Great capture! The background is a bit busy and could use rotating.

I agree. Not much I could do in this location though. I would have tried something different if I was actually trying to take a shot for the challenge. Just wanted to finally put in a second entry.

This one was already cropped and rotated to get rid of some worse distractions. I had a similar one with much better content, but it was just not near as sharp. Would have scored much better if the shot was technically as good as this one.

Solitaire
by FromDaRock

Comment:

Originally posted by surlybiff: Nice. Even though I think you could have cropped in a lot closer, I'm giving you points for such a great use of light here. 100% on topic. Nice one.

Thanks. I tried cropping it closer, but I didn't like it for two reasons:
1) Didn't have the same 'effect' without being surrounded by as much black.
2) Zooming in so much brought out too many flaws in the 'stone', which is actually a child's toy with a gem like plastic piece attached to a light.

Solitaire
by FromDaRock

Comment:

Originally posted by Teafran: Different use of light and creative in every respect. Nicely lighted, the white are right on the edge which is a positive from a technical standpoint. From an artistic standpoint, it suffers from a loss of facet detail, but that is countered by the very interesting effect of the gentle curves of the light source itself. The top light bloom is distracting by being ever so slightly over done. A good solid demonstration of the creative use of lighting on the subject and a clever idea both from the technical and artistic aspects. Should place well in the challenge.

Thanks for the comments. The lack of facet detail is less about the photography and more about the fact that it is a child's toy without good clean lines between the facets :)

I wish you were right about my placement in the challenge too :(

lol, but I am happy to have finally submitted none the less.

Solitaire
by FromDaRock

Comment:
Well, it was a rushed last minute entry, but I finally got around to entering a challenge. Didn't expect much score wise, but it felt good to finally submit instead of just look and vote.

Caged
by Sibbie

Comment:
It's a nice shot, but kind of blurry.

Insane Wife
by Timosaby

Comment:
Nice whimsical capture.

ice slide
by ralph

Comment:
Nice spot, had my kids there a couple of weeks ago. Hard to get a good shot with the bright sun on the snow and ice.

Catching the Tube
by owen

Comment:
Best of the surfing shots in this competition. Very nice.