La Chatte Noire
by Alicia

Comment:
Hehehe. :)

endpoints
by NiallOTuama

Comment:
Ok -- I'm jealous that people are posting so much bling in the posthumous thread. So I'm restarting the bluebirds. I decided they would be for the photos that shout out to me on my very first time looking through a challenge. This one made me say "oh wow!" out loud, when only the cats were around to hear me. Nicely done!

Illusion
by hihosilver

Comment:
So beautiful!!

"Trophies"
by njsabs

Comment:
Wow -- you had some tough competition in this one! I'm so glad it made it into the top 5, it really is wonderful! Kudos to you and Hollywood!

Chicken vs. Egg
by ecmguy

Comment:
This was completely brilliant!! Way to go above and beyond!! HmmmÉ I haven't done this type of thing to my husband yet. He put up with bathing with a lamp in the james river, I wonder whether I could get away with thatÉ :)

Congrats on a spectacular win!

It Tastes Like Chicken
by MeMex2

Comment:
Absolutely perfect timing on that shot! What a way to start out your lighting challenge career!! I look forward to seeing more. (and what an awesome cat! I would have liked the chicken, too. Too bad he didn't stay around more more challenges. ;P)

Dances with Feathers
by jasonlprice

Comment:
whoot!! I knew this would do well! It is so adorable and yet so wonderfully done! You had it all on this one. :) Huge congrats on the red!

Tiberius
by Tiberius

Comment:
I'm so not sure about the slight tilt to this. It bothered me at first, but it's beginning to seem right. The guy on the left is fabulous. I wish the guy on the right receded even more in the shadows, because the rest of the scene is very, very interesting, and he's almost a little distracting. Cropping down quite a bit from the top could have been interesting, but I do like the wire. :)

KMcC
by KMcC

Comment:
This is so wonderful with the dragonfly, but you have a lot of sharpening issues, especially when you look around the beak and around some of the grasses. I'd love to vote it higher for such a magnificent catch, but it just doesn't work with this processing. Even if it had to be soft, I think it would have worked better that way.

tanguera
by tanguera

Comment:
Very fun and interesting, but the surrounding area is looking a bit dark on my screen, and the sky looks artificially darkened -- with a little problem area on the left of the sky? It seems like cropping out the sky or making it even darker would have been better (a black background on DPC would have helped. :)

Of course I'm viewing this at night, so I'll be curious to look during the day to see if it's as much of an issue.