The 13th Day...the aftermath.
by annependleton

Comment:
Reading your notes explains how effectively you have captured the mood. Kudos - right on the money. There there :)
Maybe you shouldn't have taken this, because when you look back you only remember the fun.
Anyway, truly excellent picture.

I'll Start Tomorrow!
by JeniY

Comment:
At 100 pounds you should start eating. At 100 kilograms I see the problem.

After All, Mourning
by xianart

Comment:
The hands themselves make this shot special. Maybe turned up the contrast in them? The sweater adds nothing useful and the negative space...well, negative space is negative space and it's right enough to have it there, I suppose. I'm thinking that some sort of textured and generally recognisable thing like - brick wall, grass, sky...
Excuse me for thinking out loud, but the hands are as good as that praying icon thing (nearly).
Anyway, 6 for what you have.

She'll Be Grown Before You Know It
by Photologist

Comment:
Beautifully set up diagonal. Tangential to procrastination, maybe. The adult spoils the emotional effect of the picture. It's worth 7 or 8 without the people, just as a picture. 6

1968: South African Apartheid
by faery

Comment:
Go to the top of the class

Duracell!
by LalliSig

Comment:
No fair! How we s'posed to know to vote easy when there's no volcanic landscape, northern lights or Viking symbols?
Huh?

Congrats :)

Wedding Photographer: Always the Photographer, Never the Bride
by fotomann_forever

Comment:
You're going to make some lucky groom's day...

Smile for me Pussycat!
by Judi

Comment:
So good the way the only eye contact is from the reflection. Slightly unreal blues there (reflecting from stuff you whited out?) Nea pic.

Pining for the cedar
by snaffles

Comment:
Brown Ribbon! Way to go Hotshot - I always wanted one of those. (I always wanted blue ribbons and universal accolade, but sometimes we have to be a little practical). The picture idea is fascinating of itself. I dare say if you edited the hell out of it, say with a couple of sharper silhouettes/details of the branches, both angled slightly upwards with lots of sky space above them . . .

Still n all - move on :)

UH-OH
by MichaelC

Comment:
Mars? No, they don't have clouds on Mars. I know, you used the freedom of the new rule set to impose a cloudy sky on a Martian landscape.
Seriously unreal - 8