this Mall is my home
by coolhar

Comment:
Excellent.

Sheepish
by Pixelstate

Comment:
Hi All,

Thank you very much for voting for my 'sheep'

I will have to admit to being quite lucky in finding this shot. I had spent a while wondering around trying to see 'faces' in various trees and bushes around my town but to no avail. In the end I got lucky closer to home (and closer to the ground!) with this macro. You may notice that it is far from the ideal photograph, hand-held at ISO 800 with a DOF that is just a little too shallow, I noticed this too during post-production but unfortunately the sun had melted away the 'fleece' by this time and I couldn't re-take!

The picture was taken in Canon RAW format and I adjusted the contrast and sharpness in PS. The image needed rotating by 30 degrees counter clockwise and I used a little dodge and burn to help accentuate the 'eye'

PS/ My wife says the only reason that I got the winning entry was because everyone else was busy spending time with their families at Christmas. (which probably has an element of truth!)

Wishing all DPCers a Happy New Year.

Chris

to ugly face for such beautiful sunset!!!!
by simba

Comment:
Not sure that this quite meets the challenge. Nice sunset and silhouette effect though.

Try to think more outside the box
by EddyG

Comment:
This is a good start! :-)

Start A Family
by photomayhem

Comment:
LOL

Time to Quit and Create a Healthy Lifestyle Cause I'm....
by OneSweetSin

Comment:
Congratualtions!

I will stop photographing flags!
by samtrundle

Comment:
LOL. and I will stop photographing cats (kitty is getting fed up with it!)

Belonging to Him
by bledford

Comment:
Nice.

TIME IN MOTION
by DDYJR

Comment:
Very cool!

Grandfather Clock
by fisheye

Comment:
Perfect composition and exposure. The motion blur is spot on. Top 3 IMO