Taking Shape
by Meera

Comment:
Wow. This is great!

I noticed that your background colour isn't a true black.

I think it looks very nice like that. Adds a bit of softness rather than a harsh background.

I am going to guess that this was done intentionally.

I'm a big fan of the triptych form.

contour
by mesmeraj

Comment:
Nice pic. I like the pose, the slight lighting of the subject and there is something very spicy about the edges where the garment has altered the smooth lines of contour.

Breadwinner, mother of five
by whiteroom

Comment:
I will also add that I felt this was best in challenge. WOW.

The fact that she sells peanuts for a living really hits home with me. I spoke with a vendor in TaiZhong last weekend who is a single mother of two high-school aged boys.

She was very strong, and you could see that she worked very hard. My friend talked to her for a little while and it was touching how she expressed her fears when she said that if she got sick and could not work, she would sit at home and cry all day. (there is no real social assistance in Taiwan and their education system is fiercely competitive and hierarchical)

This mother you have portrayed in Durban speaks a similar tale, yet hinging as it does on the sale of peanuts has a sharp potency to be something immensely powerful and touching.

Nice work. Nice choice.

"Oops, you dropped him."
by nsbca7

Comment:
After the challenge.

Well, I liked it before and I still like it. Oddly, the thing that really makes me like it is the sharpness at the bottom of the closer cop's boot.

The picture does indeed look almost surreal.

Please write some info so we can read the interesting story here.

The moral of the story: don't run and don't fight back?

...they said it would be sunny today!!
by sajin

Comment:
One of the best tiger pictures I have ever seen.

Honey I Burnt the Toast
by AlexSaberi

Comment:
This is great, Having seen the result, I would have tried again with the peice on the left in the foreground and the peice on the right slightly back to get the rest of that smoke.

Looks pretty good though.

Oh Nooooo!!
by docpjv

Comment:
Oh my word, that looks terrible!

And hilarious! I can't even figure out exactly what it is!

Do Not Enter!
by Younger

Comment:
That's some crazy set of jet trails out there. Taking conspiracy theory pictures about weather control again?

Cool snap!

Aaargh!!!
by ralton

Comment:
Amusing for the ladies. Or the guys I guess? I know that's what I would do if it were me putting it on for some reason.


Please make your longest side 640 pixels, not your shortest. It will help you.

Sh!t
by phatphoto

Comment:
Happens.