The Leaf Eater
by vawendy

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Thanks for all the comments!!

The Leaf Eater
by vawendy

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Originally posted by MinsoPhoto: A truly beautiful photograph Wendy. The light is beautiful, your composition superb and the processing is divine but one leaf does not foliage make. I do love that you thought outside of the box but this time the outside of the box went into a whole different and unrelated challenge. I am disappointed that a shot that is not foliage by any means gets a front page placement in a foliage challenge but I do hope more people will learn to think outside the box. Just, perhaps, keep the box inside the challenge theme in the future?

How very disappointing to read this comment this morning. I'm sorry you feel that this is not foliage by any means. It may not be about the leaf to you -- but it was so much about fall and the leaf to me.

We stayed there watching for quite awhile. Mostly because they would be scavenging around picking up mostly thin, long yellow leaves that weren't interesting. I was fascinated with the fact that they were eating leaves to begin with. But the laves were falling into the enclosure while we were watching. My husband, daughter and I would be routing for the leaves to blow closer as they came floating down. And we'd be saying "it's right behind you!!" to critters that, of course, paid absolutely no attention to crazy people talking to leaves and prairie dogs.

I had the shot early on in the 4 week challenge, and was afraid that people would think as you do, so many times I thought of pulling it and going and taking a picture of a single leaf. But I left it in, because it was real, not a setup. It's one step in the life of this particular leaf. Personally -- it still tells the story of an end of a leaf, whether it's eaten by a prairie dog, or it's sitting in a gutter, or it's floating in a blue pool of water. Why would some shots be ok and not others?

By the Sea
by debsperspective

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I'm so glad you picked this one -- my favorite of your shots. I'm so mad I waited and missed him!!

Just noticing that your horizon might be a bit tilted -- you might get some hits for that.

Welcome to DPC!! (not voting. :)

no lightness without darkness - "Perfect Day"
by mariuca

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It was an 8 from me. :)

Day Eight
by Art Roflmao

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I never understood why people said this movie gave them nightmares.

Now I understand!!

Kinemortophobia - Fear of Turning into a Zombie
by vawendy

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Nope -- it was a creepy mannequin thing that a friend of mine bought for halloween -- it has blinking red eyes!!

october sun, pimentos and two rubber bands
by mariuca

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This is quite lovely -- gave it a 7, not quite sure why I marked it that low...

Of course it's a good idea. I saw it on the Internet.
by bohemka

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My favorite of the rubber band faces!!

Pasta Elastico
by wdamman

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Best of the spaghetti shots -- made me hungry. But I want a meatball. :)

rubber band socks
by Lawton

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Such a fun idea -- nicely done! Congrats on the HM. :)