Armless Angel
by Jaded_Housewife

Comment:
This is beautiful. Very old-fashioned feeling to it.

walking in the rain
by timfythetoo

Comment:
This is excellent. It just sings to me of warm, rainy days. The colors are fantastic.

by boysetsfire

Comment:

Originally posted by ShannonLee: what does the slash through the S mean??

"No Standing" zone in a traffic area, I believe. So people don't stop to let off passengers.

by boysetsfire

Comment:
Oddly effective. I see nothing wrong with "zones of sharpness" in this challenge, so that's OK by me. There's all kinds of ways to use dominant blur.

A Good Book for Company
by Wildcard

Comment:
If you think the sweater is dorky, how about the hat? I have him pegged as Austrian :-) The image doesn't do a lot for me, however... It has a certain charm, but I wouldn't come back to look at it over and over again...

reflected
by jdannels

Comment:
Eerie image, I see the attacking beast as well.

her soul
by whiteroom

Comment:
Great title as well, Lesley :-) I'm not sure "ugly" is the word we want, but "determinedly non-aesthetic" would work :-) There's story-telling at work here, and that's why this works.

day 1. summer babies
by ShannonLee

Comment:
The textural component that derives from the blur here becomes the emotional component that informs the image; if that makes any sense. Ephemeral and evocative.

thelook.jpg
by drz01

Comment:
This is extreme HDR/Tone mapping. On the plus side, the fabric is extremely well-presented with this technique. On the negative side, the backlit foliage in the BG is way out of proportion, value-wise, to the rest of the image, and the models' faces have picked up the characteristic "tone mapped dome" where the foreheads are reflecting light.

IN my experience, you are better off working on the original with healing brush to eliminate the light gradients on the faces BEFORE you tone map. The two flanking faces should more closely resemble the central face, which apparently was shaded by the veil because the gradation is not present there.

Day 30
by Brad

Comment:
A lovely, pure hue to this one :-)