You want to play?
by danielcheong1974

Comment:
Oh, well... Technically this is outstanding; exposure and processing are excellent, framing/composition is spot-on, and you basically have eye contact with both beasts.

A particularly compelling aspect of the image is how the baby is reaching out, palm upwards, as if to cup her face, and how she is pointing directly at the baby herself. This gestural sophistication is lifting the shot above the usual, mundane-but-technically-excellent captive animal shots we see at DPC.

Good work and a bump from me out of the screening group.

The Blues
by wanjun

Comment:
Breaking all the rules, aren't ya? Nothing in the picture is sharp except a few strands of hair and the immediate curve of her shoulder, and the face is almost entirely hidden. The interesting thing is just how much we *can* make out about her despite the softness; that she is, for instance, of Asian extraction, that she *does* seem sad or at least introspective, and even, possibly, that she's normally somewhat of an extrovert, given the cut of her clothing.

Anyhow, I digress... It works very well, IMO, and you get a bump from the screening group from me.

Freestyler
by mrmorris

Comment:
This is, after all, the iconic pose of the early 21st-century urban photographer, LOL. Remember when we all used to stand up straight at your viewfinders? And now we crouch and the camera is at arm's length? Well seen!

1,000th Challenge
by MayaM

Comment:
I like everything about this except I'm having a hard time, personally, with the extremely tight framing on the bottom. It makes me want to see this as the top half of a taller building, but I know it isn't... Just another smidge of foreground and you're in business.

Warren Lade at 99
by choltmeier

Comment:
This is a lovely portrait in every way that matters. I am particularly taken by the excellent use of DOF to bring the face up from the neck, the clothes, and even the ears. There's a sense of abstracting or isolating the face/expression as if he is in the process of working free of his body and becoming wholly spirit at the end. Well done :-)

The Opportunist
by goc

Comment:
This is just great! It's amusing, it's awe-inspiring, it's poignant, it's what a nature photograph ought to be :-) Bumping...

The Professor
by PenelopeK

Comment:
I love, in particular, that the hand, for all its grace, seems careworn, well-used, not effete in the slightest. The lighting is lovely. I have mixed feelings about the chair back, which I'd have darkened or at least desaturated quite a bit.

Sweeping
by kteach

Comment:
This is really a fabulous, evocative abstract. Very well done!

Rainy Days
by Yandrosxx

Comment:
That figure is SO 50's... Pity the car ain't :-)

Shadow of Hanging Basket
by GenrOne

Comment:
You know what this calls to mind, for me? A WWII helmet, a tribute to a fallen soldier. Quirky image, and I like it.