Electrified Moon
by GeneralE

Comment:

Originally posted by Yo_Spiff: All the blocky artifacts are killing this, I'm afraid, but lot of zoom, high ISO and a tight crop were certainly needed to get this shot.

Yes, I didn't notice until the voting had started that I could have retouched out some of those artifacts. :-(

Mulch
by raish

Comment:
I keep forgetting that adding an intrusive border will provide the necessary ballast to sink to the bottom ... ;-)

Not that I actually TRY for last-place finishes, more that I accept them as a frequent inevitability. Nice alternative take on the challenge -- I thought of fallen leaves, but I had already entered early and was too lazy to reconsider/reshoot.

Dog in the Road
by Blackbox

Comment:
Reminds me of the Jim Hightower book title "There's Nothing in the Middle of the Road Except Yellow Stripes and Dead Armadillos."

and I am on the outside looking in
by raish

Comment:
Interesting candid -- those spots in the middle remind me of the Geico "googly eyes" so ubiquitous in recent commercials. :-)

Warp Speed!!!
by Shutter-For-Hire

Comment:
Very nice depiction of "space travel," though I think the sun-roof doesn't quite fit my impression of a spaceship flight deck.

Jupiter In The Crosshairs
by GeneralE

Comment:

Originally posted by posthumous: "unable to Resolve the Galilean moons" - you crack me up.

Yeah, but on a tripod my camera can sort-of make them out ... this is a 100% crop of a shot taken a few days earlier:

Model A
by Yo_Spiff

Comment:
I really like the color contrasts in the various reflections -- makes it into a great abstract. Excellent composition arranging the various elements.

Dallas morning
by Yo_Spiff

Comment:
I sure don't think of large bodies of water when I think of Dallas! Nice and unusual ...

Foothills
by glad2badad

Comment:
Really like the contrast between the bright foreground and the stormy sky -- makes me want to look around for a rainbow somewhere. Good use of the HDR technique to make an image which looks "real" ...

A Story
by heida

Comment:

Originally posted by AmeedEl-Ghoul: This reminds me of Charles Chaplin who came 3rd in a competition imitating Charles Chaplin :)

In Isaac Asimov's story The Immortal Bard, William Shakespeare is brought forward in time to take a college course on whis own plays, which (of course) he flunks.

Considering the results of the Ansel Adams challenge, it seems in the top 10-15 is a "typical" finish ...

As I was scrolling through the top results, this bright bit hit me and my first reaction also was that it was the least heida-like so far ...my second that at least someone realized that a limited palette didn't equal "dark" ... ;-)

Congratulations!

FWIW, my mom knew Charlie Chaplin ...