Solitudes
by zeuszen

Comment:
I'm getting better at spotting your work, Zeus. This is lovely. It was in my top 10. It has a surreal, painterly quality to it. I love the juxtaposition of the lone bird flying and the tiny runner. A truly unique nature shot!

Added after reading the comments... I wrote my comment before reading any others. It is interesting to note that a couple of other viewers shared my experience.

Message edited by author 2004-07-08 00:44:09.

Seeing without Sight
by cheekymunky

Comment:
I liked the lovely, eerie quality to this. It was one of my highest scoring shots. I liked the grainy quality and the way the reflected lights echoed the antennae. Interesting that someone would comment that they go well with the picture yet they are distracting. That makes no sense.

Message edited by author 2004-07-07 21:09:28.

Mark of the Wizard
by Imagineer

Comment:
I have a puncture scar on my instep that I got when I was 6 years old. I was riding my brother's bike (5 Speed Schwinn Stingray) with bare feet. I had to push off from the porch step to actually get the oversized bike going and my foot slipped and hit the larger gear. The scar looks like fang marks on my foot. ;-D I call it my vampire bite.

This is a cool scar. It looks like it must have been a painful lesson about practical joking, though. I have attention deficit with hyperactivity and I have the scars to prove it. In addition to the vampire scar, that summer I was viciously bitten by a dog (a Westie) I had been told not to mess with, requiring 25 very precise stitches to sew my upper lip back on and later plastic surgery. A few weeks later I crushed 1/3 of an inch of the tip of my middle finger by slamming it in the door.

I have a few scars on my wrist and arm and knuckle (the cat bit right down to the bone of my finger) from a feral cat I was told not to mess with. This was when I was 24 so you would think after 18 years I would have learned.

Now I regret not given this a higher score. I think the title and the X-Acto blade threw me off. I thought it was an interesting shot and well done but it seemed like a weird cult thing.

After reading what I just wrote about some of my own scars, I realized that I had a brief notion of photographing my right hand with my middle finger up. That is the one that is has a chunk missing. The nail grows really wierd and you can see the flesh of my finger under it. It has been Over 30 years so I'm so used to it I don't notice it, but every now and then I'm able to see it with fresh eyes and it is rather fascinatingly ugly. I decided against it because I wasn't up to futzing with lighting. I didn't enter anything.

Kudos for being your usual defiant self and entering this.

Message edited by author 2004-07-07 21:03:53.

Little Purple Pills
by justine

Comment:
Ha! I take Nexium too and I had this idea but rejected it. This is pretty good. You've managed to make it not too boring.

'34 Ford
by jmlelii

Comment:
This looks grey to me. The blurry triangle shape in the lower right corner is very distracting.

blue light + pink light = PURPLE ?
by Stagolee

Comment:
It is purple but this modern brick building is a very boring subject. The ceiling is interesting but it is out of focus. I suggest a tripod for night shots in the future.

"From the Ground UP"
by tfarrell23

Comment:
Really nice shot. Interesting POV and nice simple lines. I'm not really getting a suggestion of purple on my monitor. The flowers look blue to me.

Kimono
by PhilipDyer

Comment:
There is too much going on here. The plant, the texture of the floor, the stamps and caligraphy on the screen all distract the eye from the kimono.

Lipstick on glass & purple sheets
by graphicfunk

Comment:
Where's the lipstick?

This is kind of boring. The lighting is rather flat. There's very little drama. The fussy white doily ruins any suggestion of sexiness.

One Monkey Short of a Full Bench
by GeneralE

Comment:
I'm not seeing any suggestion of purple. I see bronze, aqua, blue, yellow, gold,cream, beige even a bit of red in the background but absolutely no purple.

It's a nice snap shot but the background is a bit distracting.