Good Scratch
by Ristyz

Comment:
I feelin for him

... innocence ...
by roz

Comment:
Rosemary's baby? I think the dirt's more real than the innocence, so there's 6

Yesterday's Flowers ... Last Week's Hero
by PhantomEWO

Comment:
Nicely done, needs to be darker and dirtier (for me) - tough challenge.

All in a Days Work
by Firsty

Comment:
I need to give this a half-decent score, because it looks as though it could be genuine, but I think the post-processing actually makes the dirt look clean.

Cold and dirty
by TUBORG

Comment:
I can't get away from how this looks posed and faked. Technically fine, no problem, but apparently disingenuous in that he isn't a) cold or b) dirty. (Not that I expect you to make people suffer for your pictures - er - more than we all do, but you have to fool me).

municipal dirt
by aplomb76

Comment:
Looks clean to me.

miner
by guillermo21

Comment:
Technically excellent shot, although that might not be entirely to its advantage. All well and good if he really is a miner and that really is dirt, but the whole thing is so conscientiously set up and posed that I really couldn't say.

Ode to Joy
by Melethia

Comment:
Well, you know it's good, so I don't have to tell you that, but POW! didn't it work. I'll join the chorus of congratulations for having the arsehole to enter it. Thanks.

Sure, I'll have some coffee with my chocolate cake. Caffeine doesn't affect me.
by levyj413

Comment:
This is a truly excellent picture. You could sell it to someone promoting decaf.

Ivory Cat
by bryantbus

Comment:
"It was hard to get the cat to stay in the light box."

Tell me about it. I have cats charging around all over the place (except when I'm not trying to take their pictures, of course), so I just fire off millions of shots in the hopes that one or another might turn out half-way decent. This is a great set-up and great capture. It's one of the ones I didn't vote on and it scored somewhere up in a rarified atmosphere to which I cannot easily adjust, but I'll swear it was well worth it, congrats.