Grass explosion!
by LalliSig

Comment:
Excellent! And congrats!

Surfing
by micro

Comment:
Now THAT's action! Bravo!

Dad & Daughters
by roadrunner

Comment:
Aside from its obviously beautiful color, really excellent tonal values (note the not-quite-ilhouettes, rich in shadow detail), and strong sense of "family at play", there's another aspect of this image that's enthralling, and this is the sense of "altered scale".

Note how all the image elements are essentially on a single visual plane, and how the tree is the same visual size as dad. Note the "person-sized" cloud drifting gently off to the right, as if towards tomorrow's future.

The more I look at this image the more I like it. I honestly feel that in a "real world" sense this is one of the better images ever to ribbon in DPC. It's intensely human and superbly metaphorical.

Again, congratulations!

R.

Gretchen, Mark, Rosie Jack — 3 Generations in Sunset Light
by Bear_Music

Comment:
Re: the color, it was shot at sunset and that's the naturallight; I left it alone.

Re: the BG blur, this was a snapshot the evening of the challenge, of my neighbors who came to dinner. There's VERY distracting fence etc back there; the blurred fence is that is "haloing" the baby's head. I didn't want to obliterate it for fear of DQ.

Thanx for all the comments!

R.

Brothers and Best Friends
by L1

Comment:
Hah! I KNEW this was yours! Congrats on the high finish!

over there dad
by whiteroom

Comment:
Nice one Lesley! I had this picked for second, and there it is!

Dad & Daughters
by roadrunner

Comment:
WTG Runner! I had this one called :-) Second place too...

The single mom.
by docpjv

Comment:
WTG on your first ribbon, friend!

Indy Thinker
by fulgent

Comment:
Is that actually Jay Leno? If it is, is this swinging_johnson shot?

Falun Gong Protestors (The Forlorn Hope)
by pawdrix

Comment:
Interesting you choose a group of 3 people doing the same thing to illustrate independence...