Day 24 - Budding Birth
by sherpet

Comment:
shez ... beautiful .. x

Cold Beauty
by dreamy

Comment:
missed this in the b&w ... love the translucent quality in those petals and the excellent contrasts . love the composition ... just gorgeous . :)

sixteen/thirty
by UNCLEBRO

Comment:
man .. gorgeous shapes here ..
i just put a comment on your colour version .. and was pleasantly surprised when i looked at this one again .. when comparing with the colour the b&w suffered .. but without the comparison i'm finding more and more to like in this one .. i'm now liking them as much as each other, only in different ways .. excellent close-up .. delicate and subtle .. lovely ..:)

sixteen/thirty (color version)
by UNCLEBRO

Comment:
i've just looked at the black and white version, in fact i'm commenting on it right now in another window, but thought i'd like to see the colour version before going on .. must say i much prefer this one in colour .. it loses so much in b&w .. for starters there is a beautiful translucent quality in the foreground petal in the colour version that is totally lost in the b&w ... there is more, but i've had a big day & i think my brain may start reverting to lunacy if i put too much of a strain on it ..
i will now finish my comment on your b&w .. which will not be as glowing as this one unfortunately !!:)

Rider - 22
by Jutilda

Comment:
man .. this is awesome ..
& do you know wot?? .. i actually thought this was someone sitting at a piano as a thumb!!!!!! .. so it was a great surprise to see wot it was when i opened it .. THAT WAS EXCELLENT .. !!! ..
love the contrasts in this and the composition . .. and of course the subject . ..:)

22
by sevilduvarci

Comment:
double post .. sorry ..

Message edited by author 2007-05-23 06:26:38.

22
by sevilduvarci

Comment:
why on earth didnt you move a little to the right .. altho if you had, this would have been invisible till opened, coz of content ..!! .. this is totally mad .. it looks like they're all paying homage to the risque white guy standing above them .. this feeling is only heightened by that person who is obviously bowing .....

Day 24 - Made for Metallica Red!!!
by jonfrommk

Comment:
man .. this is excellent .. if you hadnt said it was a tie, i would never'v known .. i thought it was some crazy carpet at first .. a magic carpet, of course, because of those interesting ripples, and a genie is the one taking the picture .. !!!!!!:) .. which is illegal in dpc, unless you are that genie ..!!!!???

Message edited by author 2007-05-23 06:21:18.

fifteen/thirty
by UNCLEBRO

Comment:
hey steven .. i've come to this image from your portfolio page and not the b&w challenge, so i dont know if you put any explanation with this in there .. its taken me a couple of views to work out wots going on .. and because i really liked it a lot, without knowing wot it was, is why i perservered ...
i'm assuming you're standing above a body of water and the 'stuff' at the top of the image is the 'pylon' or wotever holding up wotever you're standing on?? .. and i could be completely wrong ..
wot i love about this is the amazing textures in the water and that incredible feeling of movement .. which is pretty hard to achieve when you catch a moving object in a still picture .. like no blur or anything to suggest the movement, is wot i'm trying to say .. love the droplets so white and looking like they're jumping/dancing around that pole/pylon ..
& thankyou, i did get some sleep last night ... and you can see it greatly improved my ability to speak without sounding like a raving lunatic!!!!

Devoted Pair
by robinssong

Comment:
this certainly looks excellent with your selective desaturation .. a wonderful capture and just beautiful .. love the way that bird is leaning forwards ... it looks like he's just about to take off!! .. or maybe he already is!! ...... reckon it could'v been a first page in the challenge ... :)