Wind Chime
by sarimili

Comment:
the focus here is very poor-
was your camera set in macro mode?
unless you have the proper settings (or lens) on your camera, attempts at close-up photography will result primarily in blurry images.

qutub minar
by gogs2000in

Comment:
i'm confused
- focus seems soft w/o reason
- i don't understand the title
- nothing looks backlit here

Laughter
by debbybris

Comment:
looks like you used a fill flash to keep from losing detail in the foreground/shadow areas. good idea. The light, though it is behind the subject, is coming pretty strongly from camera right - for this challenge, I think that having the backlighting more directly behind your subject would have been more appropriate.

Balloons3
by idemaerschalk

Comment:
this is really an impressive photograph. little floating islands above a sea of tranquility. lovely.

Wretched Excess
by RKT

Comment:
it seems I have failed thus far to mention how much I like this picture - you've managed to create something both dark and delicate, which I find very hard to do.

Mother Swan Protecting Her Young
by LVE

Comment:
where are the young? are they underwater? :/

best friends
by suemack

Comment:
I feel like this image gets no particular benefit from the soft focus - looks like it was too low a shutter speed. ME WANT SHARP!

unconditional love
by Seanachai

Comment:
lovely picture, except for the drool. I dunno, drool just doesn't do it for me.

Quality Time
by esdarby

Comment:
very cute :)

Pondering the Mysteries of the Remote
by drydoc

Comment:
hahah. nice. this lady looks more grandmotherly than motherly - though of course one is a mother first - doesn't bother me, but you might lose points from the hardcore DNMC crew..

you did a great job of capturing one of those universal experiences that we all have :)
(as opposed to those universal experiences that not all of us have... umm....)