Dad creates his own "missing link"
by smardaz

Comment:
Ouch!

2001: A Space iPodyssey
by tojlewis

Comment:
I wondered what inspired Apple's designers!

They're coming; Keep out of my head
by hanneke

Comment:
While a Sci-Fi "classic" motif, recent research at MIT seems to show that those foil hats will not protect one from any known radiations. : (

"Amateur" Winner My A**!
by GeneralE

Comment:
I almost titled this

scalvert's trailer or something like that ...

Guess This OrElse!
by GeneralE

Comment:

Originally posted by noraneko: ...I'll get Ebola?

I'm not entirely sure, but I think this is the closest guess : )

Thanks to everyone who entered this informal contest!

Day Into Night
by GeneralE

Comment:
Darn, I thought this (almost literally) last-minute snapshot was going to top 6.

I NEVER Get To Be Super Mario!
by GeneralE

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Originally posted by dahkota: First impressions: glad that you kept this in color. I like the composition except for the chair in the second boy's face - he has a moustache. Sharp but with a few blown spots. Interesting, but not much of a story.

Yes, the moustache is the entire point of the composition and the title.

For those who don't know, The Mario Brothers are extraordinarily well-known characters from kid's video games -- Mario Teaches Typing is a popular piece of educational software found in many elementary schools.

The Mario Brothers are readily identified by their luxuriant black moustaches ...

Fade Out
by GeneralE

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Originally posted by pineapple: That is a lot of work for a (------- note to myself, complete at some future date -------) photo.

I agree, but this is a learning site, and I was experimenting with something new. Not all experiments have to be "successful" in order to learn valuable information.

Isaac Asimov makes this point in an essay called "The Light That Failed" about the Michelson-Morely Experiment -- an experimental failure of such spectacular proportions that it won the experimenters a Nobel Prize.

Sorry, I meant to post the links for the original and a shot of the setup:

Boats-3.jpg
by judojoe

Comment:
This one puts the focus on the boats -- I think the rich colors are mostly OK and really divide the photo into horizontal zones, though the busy-ness and harshness of light on the foliage is a little much. I would probably experiment with masking off the background area and try some things to reduce its dominance -- lightening, darkening, blurring, etc. Or maybe just crop some away and leave a panoramic crop ...

Boat-1.jpg
by judojoe

Comment:
As much as I myself like showing the "whole picture" in this case I think that bit of sky really pulls attention away from your main subjects. Also, I wish this was framed just a bit to the left so that the prow of the farther boat could be seen more distictly and not look cut off.