Symphony of Circles
by markwiley

Comment:
Whoa! Stunner! 10!

Roundabout
by LevT

Comment:
The shadow of the pole is a stunner :-)

Rebels Without a Cause
by Lydia

Comment:
You poor woman, having to put up with watching such scabrous scofflaws! Have another Pina Colada...

Water Sprite
by markwiley

Comment:
This one's just beyond belief, so perfectly seen and realized. I like to think you happened upon the scene and captured this shot on the fly, but I'm pretty sure you carefully planned and staged the whole thing. Either way, it's utterly spot-on. At one point I was wishing you'd cropped it to be perfectly symmetrical, but I began to realize the old tire in the foreground adds an unexpected and "grounding" element to the composition.

Well done! One of my (few) 10s!

Take off
by wildiris

Comment:
It's hard to be any more perfect than this. Already voted, 10. At one point I felt like there was too much space to the left and a crop would improved it, but the more I studied it the more I realized the ripples on the water are actually FRAMING the bird and its reflection almost like some sort of textural vignette.

Add to that the exquisite deepening of the backlit wing's color in the reflection and the way the droplets on the trailing legs are becoming branches/twigs in the reflection, not to mention the perfect sharpness, and you have a total winner.

It's not the most imaginative image in the challenge, and my appreciation tends to lie with those who stretch a boundary or two, but this is compelling. Great work!

Art Deco
by Yo_Spiff

Comment:
It's a beautiful, even gorgeous, B/W render but it reads more horizontal than "tall" to me...

Out the Window
by Jutilda

Comment:
JUDY! Are you back to play or is this a drive-by? Love the shot!

Infectious Smile and Zest for Life
by glad2badad

Comment:
Nice to see your better half up close and personal!

uninspired
by Tiberius

Comment:
I'm not sure how "lack of inspiration" is a defining feature, nor for that matter how you, personally, can call yourself uninspired, but that's a hell of a selfie :-)

Annie
by Neat

Comment:

Originally posted by posthumous: Originally posted by GolferDDS: Well done Anita. Those low scores are disgraceful! Those are probably DNMC scores. I for one felt this didn't meet the spirit of the challenge.

I'm with Posthumous on this. Mine was one of the low scores. For me the spirit of "shoot from the hip" is sort of a "flawed spontaneity" and this shot's too perfect to qualify even assuming Anita was running backward, holding the camera low, and using no viewfinder. It's clearly an "intentional" shot in that sense.