rise and fall
by skewsme

Comment:
haha, you are stuck on joy ;-)

yellow
by boysetsfire

Comment:
Another brilliant image whooshes by the majority here.

Wheels
by Retroesque

Comment:
Excellent, wish I'd gotten to this in voting. Like your duotones. Clearly your choice was deliberate - but I wonder about getting the ferris wheel in the other orientation to drive home the wheel aspect. When it looks like a tower like this, I almost want to see a handstand instead. Wonderful interpretation though!

Wow ......A Penny
by electrolost

Comment:
Love the capture - despise the vignette/frame.

Brave New World
by scalvert

Comment:
waitaminute, you mean these aren't those little plastic troll dolls?

Curves of the here and now
by quiet_observation

Comment:
nice to see this is you! i thought it looked like a davidus or a falc. deserves a better score - do you suppose it was too subtle for them? buh.

At Cross Purposes
by krnodil

Comment:
Nice and gritty! Love the title. I think you did well to crop it, it's a little more mysterious this way. Congrats on a new top 5!

Hang
by escapetooz

Comment:
This is not a a dpc challenge entry. This is reaction club. You posted the picture voluntarily, in order to receive gut reactions. No matter where you post it, a man with makeup on, posing in an effeminate fashion, may garner the comment 'looks gay'. Sure it's not the most pc thing to say, but reaction club is for voicing your gut reaction. If you only wanted comments on the technicals of the shot, and not the content, you may have posted in the wrong place. Particularly if you tend to overreact to pointed comments.

The Warrior
by noraneko

Comment:
Goodness, have you lapsed again? I liked alot this during voting. I'm grateful that you didn't remove the natural color cast of the sunset from the white of the boat. It glows with a realistic beauty and I can imagine actually being there.

Springtime Rendezvous
by annig

Comment:
Was the halo effect in the original? Sometimes this effect can be achieved by a combination of overexposure plus off-focus (both particular to the purple flower only, in this case). To support this, there doesn't seem to be a halo on the parts of the purple plant that are in focus. But, if you didn't see it until after you processed the photo, it possibly could be due to sharpening before you saturated. In any case, I think it's a pretty cool effect!