Hot Love
by h2

Comment:
Great setup, the lighting is just perfect. I love the red reflections on the rings' edges. Congratulations on your ribbon!

Metal to metal, rust to rust
by sarampo

Comment:
Congrats on your win, spectacular shot, it HAD to finish great :-)

Yellow-winged darter
by bnilesh

Comment:
The focus plane is perfect! Fantastic catch, congratulations on your well-deserved ribbon :-)

Blue Smoke
by karenk

Comment:
It is my favorite entry of the challenge by a large margin. I don't get why it didn't finished way better than that... Big congratulations from me anyway!

Have fun in life and LIVE!
by Judi

Comment:
Congratulations Judi, this was my favorite of the challenge. The subject lighting is excellent, makes is pop against the dark background. Welcome back! :-)

Lady Rollissima's Wonderland
by gyaban

Comment:

Originally posted by pedrobop: "Despite its bizarreness?"...The bizarreness is actually one of the greatest things in this image, along with the colors, composition and light!

Thanks :) Don't get me wrong, I do like strange and uncommon setups (and will continue to create them if inspiration comes!), but I also know that it isn't everyone's cup of tea (hence the 2 and 3 votes I suppose).

Lady Rollissima's Wonderland
by gyaban

Comment:
Thank you all! Very glad about this result :-)

@ spiritualspatula: In fact some of the threads transit in front of objects, so black wouldn't work well everywhere. Ideally, I should have painted them black when in front of nothing, and white/pink in front of objects, but it was hard to do so since locations depend on lens' angle... A bit lazy I guess.

Emerald
by UrfaK

Comment:
I am very impressed with this photo. One of the rare of the challenge in which underexposure really adds to the mood. Very well done!

No woman no pie
by gyaban

Comment:
Thanks for all the kind comments :)
This was done at home, I colonized a room with all my stuff ;) The setup here is very simple, just a black backdrop, 1 lightbox from the front/left, 1 backlight strobe.

You come to me, on the day of my daughter's wedding...
by AmeedEl-Ghoul

Comment:
Fantastic shot, I just love how you handled the light. The PP is excellent too! Congratulations.