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by sfalice

Comment:
I think keeping part of the original relatively intact turns these from straight abstracts into surrealistic visions -- this came out great.

No. 28
by krnodil

Comment:
Very nice soft gradients -- reminds me of a bowlful of polished glass "jewels."

IMG_1359-copy.jpgv4.jpg
by jomari

Comment:
Really like the spiraling effect -- can you post the steps you used to achieve that?

Getting to the wedding on time!
by Judi

Comment:
This doesn't look like the same version of The Saddle Club we get in the US!

Fine action shot -- congratulations.

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: