Smashed
by Retroesque

Comment:
Your house? I love what you've done with the place!

soup
by krnodil

Comment:
I prefer to think that you have flipped this image horizontally, in order to merely simulate left-handedness.

I have the same speed-peeler as you ... they work great, don't they? But you have a lot more utensils than me; I am suffering utensil envy now.

I love looking at cooking pictures, because I love to cook. And you're right; the LB seems right at home in the kitchen! I therefore reciprocate with this admittedly clinical study of my own kitchen:

one good lady
by jmritz

Comment:
This is the one for me ... Best in Challenge. For the simple reason that it is about being elderly, and not just a sentimental picture of an elderly person. Surrounded by family photographs, but alone. Sustained by a bewildering arsenal of drugs. Too much furniture in too small a space. Too many mementos, but each too precious to throw away (or even to put away, in the hope that the person involved might call by). Warmed by an embroidered granny blanket on a solo chair. So much of life; so little left. Plus she's lovely ... once pretty, still elegant and serene, and still who she was. And so I must award you the Order of the Thumb:

Final Impression
by pointandshoot

Comment:
This is a beautiful, sophisticated photograph. It is many-textured, both literally and figuratively, and so there's a fresh reward for every additional minute spent looking at it. I'm up to about 12 nearly 15 minutes in total with it so far, and it hasn't run out of gas yet. So I must award it the Order of the Thumb:

Longing
by luvmyaussie

Comment:
The light is sublime. Really. How'd you get this good, livin' way out there in French Lick, Indiana?

by aznym

Comment:
Weirdly distorted. Weirdly composed. Weirdly illuminated. Weirdly shadowed. I love that kind of stuff.

by aznym

Comment:
The splash of red being stolen away from the scene by one of the walkers is what makes this photograph sizzle for me.

by aznym

Comment:
One of the many small lessons that you scatter in your quiet wake, Az, is when to tilt and when to not tilt. I invite the observer of this image to tip your head & make it 'straight' for a moment. See? This really is a 'when to tilt' moment!

soft
by cgino

Comment:
Yes, better than the star shot. Karen's characterisation of the shot as a "visual purr" is just ... so apt (nearly said 'perfect', which would have made me want to spell it purrfect ... I'm so glad I didn't).

Dunegrass in Winter
by Bear_Music

Comment:
There's a beach I remember that had this grass. I loved it, for two weeks every year until I was about 12. It has apartments and a golf course now. I'd prefer it was a hole, I think.