Aromatic soaps
by Neat

Comment:
a ribbon contender for sure . !!! ..
love the clean feeling i get from this .. and its not really about the soaps .. its your excellent photograph .. the lovely subtle hues and the way its all laid out .. the great background without any distractions ...
now i'd like one of those soaps .. i can almost smell them .. and its a particularly nice odour .. and i'm serious .. its called the power of suggestion .. !! ..:)

Nighty Night
by banmorn

Comment:
awwwwwwwwwww .. you got me in less than one second flat .. !!!! ..
my little katee used to burrow under her towels and blankets and stick her head out .. much like this little beauty ..
i'm loving this so much .. makes me feel a little emotional ..
i hope this does EXTREMELY well .. and yes .. a totally biased vote .. hahahaha .. or bwahahahahaha .. !!.. ;)

The Magic Carpet
by PennyStreet

Comment:
could this be something a child created .??. i had to get out the magnifying glass to check out the words top lhs square ..
'i love you' .. its the sort of thing little children say a lot .. in my family anyway .. and its beautiful .. and its lovely when the older generation get the hint and say it too .. just because .. an 'i love you' never goes astray ..
anyway .. this is so appealing .. and endearing .. and i'll be looking at this after rollover to see what a lot of the other words say that i cant read as its in voting .. :)

Works of Skilled Hands
by Lydia

Comment:
this is wonderful .. i'm loving that its like a story .. the tool that was used to create that magic piece .. and the shavings ..
the light is beautiful as well .. :)

Grandmother's Things
by photosbyMcDon

Comment:
lovely and a bit emotive .. especially with your title ..
loving the light and the shades and the way you have composed this shot .. :)

Contraption
by DistantColours

Comment:
havent seen all your competition yet .. just a few .. but this so far is a WINNER .. what a brilliant array of 'things' .. couldnt think of a word there ..
it reminds me of one of those 'things' .. where you put a ball in one end and it goes down thru a myriad of 'things' that make trapdoors open, and 'things' fall down and at the end something quite unexpected and seriously amazing happens ..
sorry about my limited vocabulary .. hopefully you can substitute the correct words where i havent been able to think of them ..
anyway .. this is brilliant .. :)

Babe in the Pottery
by digifotojo

Comment:
this is GORGEOUS Jo .. saw it in that new letters game ... still trying to work out how to do it .. !! . ;)

Ran Out Of Sunscreen!
by Refocused

Comment:
i've just read the myriad of comments you have received for this photo .. just by the comments you should have got the blue .. however .. the blue would have been very hard to beat ..

i love that you consistently come out with such imaginative takes on the challenges ..
wish there was a pill for that .. JOKE .!!.
would probably turn out harmful .. in some random unexpected way ..

and i've been thinking for some time that sunscreen could be just another thing that is supposedly good but turns out bad .. my thinking is that most things that are 'artificial' turn out to be a bit dangerous for us humans .. and every other lifeform on the planet ..
anyway .. i got a bit carried away there .

what i actually came here to say was ..
THIS IS FANTASTIC .. altho quite weird .. like ppl have said ..
and almost difficult to look at ... like you have some terrible disfiguring skin condition .. should i delete that bit .. you never know when you could offend someone unintentionally .. i feel political correctness has totally lost the plot .. :)

portrait without cataract in left eye
by tvsometime

Comment:
congratulations Tom on great place in quite a competitive challenge ..
loving the black and white ..
cataract surgery is like giving some of your life back .. well it was for me ..
had to look thru the viewfinder with my glasses on ..
focusing was a nightmare ..
you wont know yourself ..
well .. maybe you will .. but i feel the version after cataract surgery will be much easier on the eyes .. haha .., i think that may have been a 'dad' joke .. definitely very lame .. hope you got a grin .. :)

Touch of mystery
by Neat

Comment:
congratulations on a great place in the challenge ..
and how cool to see the woman behind the camera ..
this is a beautiful image Anita .. very lovely .. :)