Dad's Little Old Rocker
by JPR

Comment:
Very nice work with the painting with light concept. This definitely 'shines an interesting light' on a mundane subject :)

Bubbles
by moodville

Comment:
This is an excellent image :)

Suggestion for the print: I'm not sure if you have the room avaialable, but you may want to consider adding just a touch of breathing room at the top if possible. when this print gets a mat put around it, the bubbles are going to be quite close to the edge of the mat border....

50 years ago... defiance bred a Leader
by Rooster

Comment:
Greetings and kudos on an excellent photograph. I really love the way this young man's eyes are turned looking out of the frame. I assume he's watching for someone to scold him for drinking from the fountain. I think you have captured the essence of 'conflict'. Congrats on a beautiful photo.

Anthurium
by admart01

Comment:

Originally posted by admart01: Thanks to all for my highest number of comments and highest scoring shot! I really liked this photo and glad others shared my enjoyment. The contradiction in the comments refect my trade-offs and conflicts when putting it together (border, b&w, tonal quality, composition) I get so excited when I see I've got a new comment and this challenge was quite exciting! I've gotten hooked on shooting flowers -- that could be a bad/good thing!

I love photographing flowers, even though I haven't done many. I have a long list of specific flowers I want to photograph in the spring and summer though :)

Time and technology conflict
by dickwilhelm

Comment:
I bet you hear demonic messages when you do this...

Life is Hard
by lmason

Comment:
...and so am I.

Anthurium
by admart01

Comment:
Greetings...

I like the composition here quite a bit and wouldn't change anything about it. Everyone can always ask you to show them something that isn't shown, and I don't usually agree with that. When I look at a photo, I ask myself 'What is the photographer showing me?' I never ask 'Why isn't the photographer showing me this?' I accept what I see as what I'm supposed to see rather than it being a mistake of sorts. The problem you often encounter is that your viewer will have preconceived notions about what something looks like. When this is the case, some of them will ask you why you didn't show them what they expected to see. In this particular case, including the rest of the leaf and some of the stem would completely change the composition and theme of this photo. Your 'texture' would lose fighting ground to shape. You would be introducing more symmetry, which is not bad, but not necessarily good either.

My preconceived notions of this flower have nothing to do with shape or texture. I see death. This is a funeral flower. I think this lily is the evil nemesis of its relative Calla lily. To me, both are funeral flowers, but the peace lily is more descriptive and more associative with the subject. There is no sensuality in the peace lily.

It's a beautiful photograph and your score reflects an overall voter satisfaction with your work...

:)

Strange Fruit
by beclo

Comment:
i hope you didn't eat these.

Multiplicity Destroys Mundanity
by Paulk

Comment:
very nice abstract... the repeating patterns are all but mundane :)

Lamp
by Mousie

Comment:
beautiful work with the light and color :)