Drink More Water
by Samantha_T

Comment:
This is just tremendous. There's no doubting your photographic skills, but we shouldn't underestimate your modelling skills either. I book professional models all the time and I have to say I'd book you in a heartbeat. It is exactly this sort of commitment to an image that makes all the difference.

With both these sets of skills, matched with standout post-processing ability and a great conceptual imagination, it's no wonder you grace the front page so often.

I'd be pleased to get this shot of a model, to pull it off as a self is boggling. Well done.

(I think the eye is not at all overdone - it anchors and is key to the image)

fireworks
by PennyStreet

Comment:
I didn't get a chance to vote but this is just superb.

Boats and the City
by MargaretNet

Comment:
Got a 9 from me. It is a lovely one; boats like brush strokes.

Into the Valley
by hesitant

Comment:
Well done on your ribbon. I really like that glowing look you've pulled off.

Spin Casting
by Brent_S

Comment:
Well done on your ribbon. Very well executed and presented.

Mid October
by ursula

Comment:
This is pretty.

Roman d'Amour
by todbedy

Comment:


Awarded for the December 2012 Free Study

vacation
by 4trtone

Comment:
I'm going through the entries, stopping at those images I feel have had the benefit of an unconventional eye and dwelling a little longer to try to see and appreciate what you saw. This is one of those images.

Positives: A country scene turned a little dark - I like that; it feels cinematic; we wait for the camera to pan upwards and sweep leftwards in a curve. The tones are really good too - emphasising the oppressive feel of the subject matter. The depth of field is perfect too - the house soft and looming...

Critical stuff: Nope.

Overall: Very well made.

look inside
by posthumous

Comment:
I'm going through the entries, stopping at those images I feel have had the benefit of an unconventional eye and dwelling a little longer to try to see and appreciate what you saw. This is one of those images.

Positives: Goodness, this is brave. Blur, grain, in-your-face coloration, ambiguity of subject - all ensuring that you put distance between yourself and the admirers of eye-candy-cliche. I like it (despite liking a bit of eye candy myself), I like how it engages the imagination - for me, this is definitely neurological in its suggestion.

Critical stuff: Given the joy of engaging the imagination - I wish you had left us with a less steering title.

Overall: Powerful.

december sunset
by bspurgeon

Comment:
I'm going through the entries, stopping at those images I feel have had the benefit of an unconventional eye and dwelling a little longer to try to see and appreciate what you saw. This is one of those images.

Positives: Love how you have thrown away the colour option to give us something rather deeper - a concentration of form and light and perspective. What make this is the way the whole thing is compositionally balanced and how you have avoided the ends of the grey scale range.

Critical stuff: Nope

Overall: Characterised by the subtlety of a master at work.