When I Was Young
by Kylie

Comment:
Mine never had such nice embroidery though ...

Free Time
by techtraum

Comment:
Witht he thickness and style of that book, I'm not sure this qualifies as "free" time, but it certainly looks like it will take more than a Fall afternoon to wade through.

Update....Update....Update....Update......................
by Prime_Time

Comment:
Too bad they announced the humor challenge right after this : )

The 8th Hour
by DefyTime

Comment:
Nice choice -- eight is my favorite.

The 17.20 .... Late again
by agwright

Comment:
... but trying to make up for lost time apparently!

TIME
by graphicfunk

Comment:
The 35mm camera in the background looks kind of familiar ... I'd like to know what it is eventually.

...only for a moment, and the moment's gone...
by Sammie

Comment:
I'd thought of using one of these, but this one's much nicer than any I'd have found in time.

The Path
by dwolff

Comment:
I find it's the one tree in front of the ess-curve in the path which is the most distracting; the path is the title subject, and you are partly obscuring it's most "interesting" feature. Perhaps moving a couple of feet to the left would frame the curve of the path between the more substantial trees.

This would be a good shot to try in duotone mode, using a light blue or cool gray as the second color to accentualte the feeling of coldness; duotones often have more of a feeling of depth to them than do monochromes.

Muralist at Work
by GeneralE

Comment:

Originally posted by Shadowrain: Nice capture. A different angle would have made this so much better. Maybe from the side so you could also see some of the artist's expression as well as the mural.

I was deliberately trying to shoot from angles such that the person's face would not be individually identifiable to allow for greater freedom in use of the photo without needing a release.

Muralist at Work
by GeneralE

Comment:

Originally posted by xian: would have been a better choice for a color challenge

I agree ... here's the color version of the same shot for comparison.



However, I still think it was probably my best picture during the challenge time period.

It was also somewhat a deliberate choice to present the voters with something so obviously "better" presented in color in B+W ... forcing a few, as they said, to do a "double-take" and check to see that there really is a lot of shading and detail there ... It is also intended to be documentary in nature -- the mural is not my work after all, and that's a challenge in itself -- to take a colorful scene and render it in grays because you have to -- instead of just looking for something which looks good in gray to start with.