Krystal
by Kelli

Comment:
Beautiful all the way. Love the story and just the way the picture is, but I know nothing of portrait photography, just that I like the subtle quality of the light painting your model's features, which seems to fit the story of just emerging from braces/youth.

Safe harbor for Ducky Pirate!
by drydoc

Comment:
Ah, Steve, you have a way with the lasses. And you carry a little duckie in one pocket and an assortment of duckie hats in the other?

Ducky Airbags
by colorcarnival

Comment:
Oooh, great title. Just tickled that you and Steve seized the day and finished side by side, though the side by side could be a little higher.

Morning People
by Quigley

Comment:
You have a great cast of characters, even robotman getting his daily v's. Without reading your notes and comments, I can see that this picture does exactly what it was meant to do: please me enormously well after I finished laughing. (Yah, sometimes good to air out the comments too).

I n t i m a t e s
by Retroesque

Comment:
Very dear. Love the abandon of the groomee/groommee(?).

trees with moon
by tnun

Comment:
Thanks voters and commenters. Especially to JuliBoc. And to bassbone and basssman7 for their responses to my pms. ( DrAchoo acknowledged my 1/2 second but didn't think it was an obvious enough long exposure, and I may have to agree, although the obvious is not high on my list of desiderata). Jac has responded by telling me how to take the same picture at a longer exposure (ISO 100, f 2.8) which indeed I may try the next time it comes up, although I expect some noise, and this was a minimal editing challenge, and the best (most noiseless) moon I have ever shot, and I doubt this would have happened had I not tried for the longest exposure via f8 and ISO 50.

Okay, so I enjoyed the presumption of the higher end camera users, as well as the many submissions that exploited the possibilities of the challenge way more than mine.

Abstract Lighting
by ButterflyGirl

Comment:
This is a whole landscape unto itself, full of movement and suggestion.

The Power of the Dark Side
by bobnospum

Comment:
Works perfectly on my probably too bright monitor. Love the simple composition and the bright red against the dark green and the black.

earwigs at night
by ralph

Comment:
Original, but I am sooo taken with the title... Surely there should be a poem.

The Scream
by raish

Comment:
! (If I had looked at all the submissions I might guessed who had done this). Deserves a separate prize. - Oh you got one!