as the flame flickered....
by Ecce_Signum

Comment:
Looks like a very interesting effect on a drapy piece of plaid fabric. I does look like a flame, and I like the image.

Lamp
by JuliBoc

Comment:
Hee hee, good idea. Don't think I'll be doing it though. :)

lamppost by the sweetgum tree
by ErinM

Comment:
Hey, I just posted a close up of that lamp. Well, not that lamp, but one quite a bit like it. :) I love what you are doing with the overlays in conjunction with the lensbaby. And I like the way you put the sweet spot on the foreground rather than the subject.

by ErinM

Comment:
Wonderful combination of the lensbaby and the texture. I love the composition.

Gathering
by Germaine

Comment:
Oh, what a wonderful use for Lensbaby. This is delicious. You blended the moon so well that I didn't realize it was pasted until I read your notes. I like the colors. The green and orange is an unusual combination.

Photoshop action.....
by Rino63

Comment:
I feel like I'm sitting in a car, looking at this scene through a broken windshield. Maybe we just had an accident, with that car ahead.

lookout
by krnodil

Comment:
What a nice shot. You must live in a rural area to have such a bird in your back yard. Before reading your notes, I thought it was a juvenile red-shouldered hawk.

Baby at the Beach
by Bear_Music

Comment:
Thanks for the reference. This looks like someone over-indulged in pistachios. ;)

Actually this really sucks me down. Perhaps I'm drowning. Interesting colors. I don't know about Topaz Adjust.

P.S. I wonder what this would look like with those 3-D glasses on.

Message edited by author 2009-01-10 13:58:33.

niece
by Retroesque

Comment:
Love the cheeks and smile. Very nice DOF achieved with this lens. What aperture ring did you use?

Glass-Bottom Boat
by JuliBoc

Comment:

Originally posted by Bear_Music: I had some that are the same general idea, though my shells are bigger and my image is a lot less sharp. But, honey, shells ain't sand, now, are they? Not even pieces of shells, nor little itty bitty stones for that matter. The one I did enter is getting 4.5-hammered, sigh. You?

I never thought about what would qualify as sand. I just seem to know it when I see it and feel it, and when it gets stuck is uncomfortable places. :)

Here in Delray Beach, FL, we have a gorgeous beach that the world seems to consider sandy. The FL beaches appear to be made up entirely of itty bitty pieces of broken shells. Depending on the age of the sand it is either finely ground or coarse as in this shot.

Now Michigan is a different story. Those beaches are made up of disintegrated sandstone. Perhaps that would qualify in your book. Anyway, my Sand Challenge entry (Florida) is getting an average reception. Some like it and some don't.