Letting go of control: the photographer becomes the photographed.
by GoldBerry

Comment:
Nice approach to "letting go." Wonderful portrait shot -- I love the lighting and the angle of the shot. The DOF is just a touch short, giving me a mouth in perfect focus, but the eyes are just a bit soft -- not much, but just a touch. Still, not as distracting as the blurry, but not blurry enough left hand at the right edge of the photo and the mystery buttons in the lower left corner of the photo. I don't think I'd try to crop them out though -- this shot works better as a landscape oriented photo than if you cropped off both sides. Now that my nits have been picked, I'd still like to say, nice photo and well done. Kudos to the non-photographer who shot this image of the photographer, letting go.

Ouch!
by zerocusa

Comment:
Ouch is right -- here is a guy that SHOULD let go, alas, he doesn't -- so, where is the "letting go" in this submission?

LUCKY SHOT
by Rando D300

Comment:
I'm not a hard-liner "rule of thirds" guy, but I think it would definitely help this image. The bird is way too centered -- but the slight off-center that it is is to the right or the direction of flight. I find it more appealing to have the direction of flight appear to be entering the frame rather than leaving.

Loosening Grasps
by mocabela

Comment:
Excellent submission. I'm not sure if the disembodied hands are intriguing, or annoying, but I'm leaning toward annoying. There's too much of the body to not have a head as well, IMO. Still, the best of the challenge so far, but I havent' seen that many pix yet.

I will no longer fear the future nor will I regret the past
by byshen

Comment:
Nice composition, perfect lighting and color. There must be something wrong with this photo -- oh yeah, it isn't mine!

Catch up on my reading...
by tj_skalka

Comment:
What's that in the upper right corner. The white balance also seems to be off here. I think the photo has also been overly sharpened, producing those nasty jaggies.

Quit buning my money
by finnz

Comment:
I hate it when I bun my money.

Lets wash our bad habits down the drain......
by Dseale

Comment:
What bad habbit is pink? Pepto Bismo?

Failure and Success
by jcordina

Comment:
ROTFLMAO! I'm not sure about the photo... yet, but man, what a sense of humor! I'm not a big fan of just shots of paper or boards, such as this one, but you've taken an interesting angle to the shot -- not just a boring straight on shot or anything. Not too sharp, not too soft -- it is just about right with a proper depth of field to express the idea. I guess it is a quality photo. The only shortcoming is I wish I could see the beginning of 1997 rather than dot dot dot. The not completely rubbed off previous writings are a must to make this the photo it is.

Atkins
by crabappl3

Comment:
LOL