Day 1: Two-step
by EstimatedEyes

Comment:

Originally posted by Puckzzz: I would've liked to see that one shoe sharp and the other one moving. is this for those Scottish or Irish dances?

I agree ... the one shoe looked sharp in the LCD and I immediately thought it would make a nice B+W, then saw it was softer when i got home and threw it up on the monitor. But I liked the diagonal lines and the wood grain, so decided to go with it anyway

Not sure what kind of dance it was. They were having an Old West days festival in Old Town this weekend, and this girl, accompanied by her sister and parents on fiddle and wind instruments, was doing some sort of Irish jig on the wooden sidewalk. We stopped to watch, I had my telephoto on snapping pics of my kid and her cousins, and the feet caught my eye so I made some quick snaps like this for the challenge.

Day 2 Isabelle
by TCGuru

Comment:
Great expression, and nice soft lighting on the child's head. Works very well in B+W.

Day 2 - Change of Seasons
by Budya

Comment:
nice composition and tones. Looks a tad soft in the upper third ... maybe you were shooting at a 45 degree angle to the ground?

Day1.jpg
by FotoMunki

Comment:
nice capture Mark ... shows a lot of energy and happiness.

Always a Giant
by brad177

Comment:
Candy Maldonado? Tony Torcato? Jason Ellison? No. 755 is on its way. Oh, yeah, nice setup and nice pic!

No Parking
by h2

Comment:
This thumb grabbed my attention immediately, and the full size doesn't disappoint. Great colors and composition. I just love found images like this. Looks like you had a great vacation; thanks for sharing the pics

City view
by flavioalima

Comment:
Nice image and processing ... looks like a scene out of a sci fi movie. Congrats on a new personal best, and welcome to the K100D page!

S o l i t u d e
by JeffDay

Comment:
Wow, Jeff, I really like this image. Great colors and composition. I don't see any excess noise here at all; what some call grain/noise I see as texture of the grasslands that enhances the feel of the image. My only nit is that I might have eliminated the red dirt triangle on the left by shooting from a slightly different location and/or cropping, but that's just an artistic choice that isn't mine to make.

Starry, Starry Night
by Shadowi6

Comment:
Nice exposure of the nighttime sky and use of a flashlight to illuminate the far shore. I would have cropped off the bottom fourth of the picture, from about where that rock juts out to the lefthand shore, as there's not a lot of foreground interest there, and I think that detracts somewhat from the composition.

Walk the path of light, my child
by surfdabbler

Comment:
Nice lighting and shadow play, brings out the textures and detail very well.