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by GeneralE

Comment:
I like your full out portrait very much, and I likewise think this different approach is quite successful. Pared down to its essentials, it has a different, and maybe greater, emotional impact. They're both very, very good.

Ryker
by GeneralE

Comment:
Wonderful portrait, serious and intent with his dark eyes shining. I imagine him as one of the launch team at Cape Canaveral, which plays right into my childhood fantasy of a world run by kids, and such an improvement that would be.

predators.DSCF5648
by mariuca

Comment:
Alfred Hitchcock! Down to the coat draped over his arm as belly, this is just the style I'd expect from him. You've nicely caught the somewhat absurd tension of the oblivious photographer (and we've all been there) and the looming threat. Perfect angle from man to spider. I like the tones and detail of his hair, the spider's shadow, his hearing aid - which adds to the sense of obliviousness - and the paisley shirt, swimming with enormous paramecia that may be what the spider is stalking. A wild and delicious story handsomely executed. No pun intended, of course.

meet Makia
by Ecce_Signum

Comment:
But for the chair seat, with its pattern and domed nails, this could be Siberia. That's how I saw it in the thumbnail. A lynx or fox crouched under an overhang, amidst the snow and next to a leaning tree. Your lens enables the image but your eye supplies the entirety. It's both intimate and at a remove. That it is a chair overhead is charming in that we often see the ancient wildness in our pets, their theoretical existence in the forests and on the plains of yesteryear. It's an enchanting image of possibilities.

Chocolate
by PennyStreet

Comment:
Would never have thought "chocolate," but that you so titled this image makes it obviously so, with some imagination. Such diversity of shape and tone is its own reward, and that it's quirkily elegant pulls it off with, if you will, panache. It's a world unto itself and invites a visual odyssey. Fine stuff.

Brewery B&W
by NikonJeb

Comment:
Personally, I prefer the color original. This black and white conversion strikes me as too contrasty, whereas the colors in the original were quirkily harmonious. The mood in the original is more welcoming, but all this is certainly a matter of personal artistic vision.

something happens
by Bear_Music

Comment:
The term "artsy" is often used pejoratively, and snidely, might I add, yet this is surely art. It's surreal, it's mysterious, it's dark and it's also playful. The shadows, in their granularity, are sumptuous. The damascened knife and halved Brussels sprout are a revelation of pattern and color. The shadowed hand passing over the knife ties the composition together. Just great.

the power of art
by mariuca

Comment:
What an appealing embrace with only her arms and bling in view. And him in his black shirt against the light background. Not immediately provocative, but it sneaks up on you. Deceptively artful.

IMG_2328squarsmall
by GeorgesBogaert

Comment:
Bedazzling. Dynamic and with beautiful colors. Looks like a brainstorm.

Dark in the Daytime
by insteps

Comment:
Very interesting image. Peering into the dark you realize you can penetrate about half way, and I love the subtlety of that. I like how the strong shadows allow a gentle curve across the dog's back. I also like the hint of a profile and even the candy wrapper on the ground. Lovely, unique and compelling.