Ice flowers
by tome

Comment:
Lovely. An aquarium for ice fish.

feathers
by daisydavid

Comment:
Beautiful things. Life of Plants. This and Shall We Dance: as good as botanical pics get.

Sand Goanna
by Gordon_1

Comment:
Always great to see a fellow Aussie looking sharp. Very nice picture, thanks!

annual checkup
by LevT

Comment:
He's even got his head turned to the side to do the cough. Proctological considerations aside, it's a nice picture, as always.

by messerschmitt

Comment:
WS? Well then I know there's a face in here somewhere. Just gotta find it now.

Daily Grind
by bvy

Comment:
I'd buy that.

an untold tale
by mitalapo

Comment:
This is a wonderful photograph! So unexpected, so unusual, and yet so absolutely right. Two human figures forced into anonymous irrelevance (one by the tyranny of distance, one by the indifference of the frame); one has no arms, the other has but chooses to keep them furled; both of them apparently stationary while pointed on a north-south heading. And one wee dog rocketing through the scene in an exuberant west-east dash, as if in a mad act of insurrection, or fleeing the scene of a crime. If Elliott Erwitt saw this I'm sure he would laugh out loud and give you a big pat on the back. Perhaps an autographed copy of this.
Best I can do is a 10.5 score as my top choice in the challenge, a sincere thank you, and one of these things, which makes a very fine doorstop:

satellites
by posthumous

Comment:
What a great picture! It will be impossible for all those sad, simple souls who blather on about 'distractions', 'blurry', 'no clear subject', 'rule-of-turds', 'lens flare', and all that rubbish to fail to recognize the quality of this photograph. I've seen some wonderful, exuberant, original photographs that were shamefully overlooked at DPC, but surely not this time? This one is just so unequivocally damn good that it must penetrate.

Your picture is a celebration of the photograph, rather than of photography. In fact it's pretty much anti-photography, and that's always a very good thing in a photograph.

An emphatic 10 for you, a 'Thank You', and the following posthumous* Purple Heart , I mean Order of the Thumb:



(* the 'posthumous' Purple Heart is not connected with the well-known mad poet and twisted art critic of the same name)

co-habitat
by LevT

Comment:
It's unexpected, isn't it? And then you think, 'why not?'

Thieving wee buggers, though (I refer to the monkeys, just so we are clear).

Some Sort of Self Portrait
by Tiberius

Comment:
Soon as I saw this open my first thought was that you were walking backwards ... moon walking! No idea why I thought that. Were you?