17 years old
by marbo

Comment:
Unusual unevenness in the rings -- I wonder if this was growing on a slope.

International policy
by Pingupingu

Comment:
I have an old hammer a lot like that...modeled after a "war hammer" I saw in an old book.

Humpty Dumpty Sat In A Cell
by Isaac

Comment:
Would be better with a sharper focus on either the cell or Humpty.

My great grand mother's egg-portrait of Charlie Chaplin
by Ruben

Comment:
My mom actually knew Charlie Chaplin...

Primary Oak
by Tarbini

Comment:
I just took a drive through the same or similar area...it's the perfect time...

Frost and Flora
by Kaz

Comment:
I think I'd have put the flower all the way in the upper-right corner, bleeding off the edge, and maybe none of the stem. I think the contrast of the sharp crystal and the soft petals needs no distraction from the greenery. I like everything else; exposure, detail, etc.

World of Wire
by GeneralE

Comment:
This was a tricky challenge for me because so much of my thoughts about images lean towards their use in a graphic context, as most stock photos are used. I've posted the original image (cropped but before the color manipulation and a cover mock-up for a fictional trade magazine (frequent users of stock photos) as my image might have been used.
BTW: the basic premise of the story is true (from a radio news report), but all of the details are made up.

Gull-able
by GeneralE

Comment:
Thanks for your comments all. I was actually on the opposite dock, so I don't have the excuse of the boat's motion -- I blurred it all by myself. I was on autofocus and I'm pretty sure it picked the far background instead of the birds.
Also I had to crop pretty tight, so I may have lost some resolution/clarity there. There were two more birds on the rail to the left, but they had turned a little, so I abandoned the horizontal framing, which would have been a stronger composition, in favor of the vertical with fewer (but better aligned) birds. I tried a little more sharpening but it resulted in an unacceptable amount of fringing.

Illuminated Texas
by Anachronite

Comment:
You'd think they'd include the Capital.

Plimsol Line
by Freebie

Comment:
Looks more like the "insole" line to me.