" The Day Begins "
by Rmac

Comment:
Wonderful handling of the exposure - lovely result! Congrats on the blue!

cAR
by bvy

Comment:
Really nice and excellent execution. I do like Penny's interpretation.

White Towers
by JohannesFrank

Comment:
The scaffolding is still in the same place from when I took a similar shot. I do love this old place! Thanks for shooting it for the challenge.

The Wishing Tree
by ursula

Comment:
I think it is a perfectly valid use of HDR and I think perhaps some are mis-reading what you did. I know I did the first time you told me about it - I thought it was a series of shots with different focal planes (which is indeed legal in advanced - I recall Heisch did a bug that way.) But what I think you're saying (and correct me if I'm wrong!) is you shot all the exposures at the same shallow DOF aperture setting and used the HDR to emphasize that shallow DOF. No different than using HDR to emphasize details, bring out shadows, etc.

Oh, and nice to see this do well here, too!

The Stick Shift
by UrfaK

Comment:
Somehow I missed this along the way. Wonderful shot!

lone
by UrfaK

Comment:
Exactly what Jutilda said.

Mad Hatter
by gadion

Comment:
An outstanding effort and very fun photograph! Sorry you lost the spot on the front page, but you still ended up with a great shot that people really enjoyed!

The Dreaming Tree Has Died
by vickio

Comment:
What an excellent use of a marvelous setting!

Transformation-The Little Mermaid
by bspurgeon

Comment:
And you were worried about the blur... :-) 6+ and a ribbon!

The Princess, charmed.
by Lydia

Comment:
This is totally delightful!!