my heart beats on a wishbone
by posthumous

Comment:
Great title... something about the textures, tones, and sepia color gives this a very interesting atmosphere... I like it.

Poser
by roby21112

Comment:
Exquisitely beautiful. Your use of colors is astounding. Glorious!

bird in the hand
by whiteroom

Comment:
A 5.6?!?!?! What next? OH well. This is incredibly beautiful! and...(don't tell any one I said this, but I think this is better than the top ten winners... ) ;D

votes 148, views 216, Avg Vote 4.974, comments 9 (the bird is not sharp)
by Oded

Comment:
I like it - great capture and neat composition. ;)

Contemplating Takeoff
by goc

Comment:
OH bravo! I love the airplane in the background...and the whole atmosphere you've captured here is wonderful. Great work. (Don't tell anyone, but I personally like this a lot better than anything that finished in the top ten...) ;D

TopazSpooky-feb07.jpg
by dassilem

Comment:
I love it! The way the eyes pop out from the subtle shades of the black fur is wonderfully creepy. I personally would have tried to get a slightly less cluttered background and also taken the dog's collar off, to increase the impact of that effect... although quite possibly if you had tried moving the animals they wouldn't have settled down again and all that... oh well. ;) Very neat idea! :)

Spooky.jpg
by dassilem

Comment:
Great capture! I love the way the whiskers seem to spider out from the picture... it creates a neat effect.

Mitzi1.jpg
by dassilem

Comment:
Well, here's my two cents. ;)

I actually think the cropping is okay here... the composition works nicely, and I am not really bothered by the whiskers. But perhaps to get the horizontal crop, you could use the cloning tool to get rid of the shower curtain? I played around with it a bit in photoshop and got this:
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I also intensified the colors (maybe too much?) added some contrast, and did a bit of burning and dodging. This is just what I personally might have done. I think it's a great shot with lots of potential - that subtle expression makes this a really wonderful capture. :) Hope this was helpful!

Message edited by author 2008-02-03 18:03:30.

The Light
by haze

Comment:
I wish the hands were in better focus... but I really like the rich tones and the beautiful lighting. The composition is also nice. I'm not entirely sure about the color. I could go either way with it. Fix that focus, and I think this will be a truely beautiful image!

Man and Bird
by Alicia

Comment:
Brilliant work!