Growth: Daughter, Wife, Mother
by pcody

Comment by twm122:
Beautiful colors.

Growth: Daughter, Wife, Mother
by pcody

Comment by ShutterPug:
not focused very well and does not convey family to me - sorry

Growth: Daughter, Wife, Mother
by pcody

Comment by CLarson557:
Beautiful garden...love the colors. If it were not for the title, though, I wouldn't have thought of this as representing a family theme. Actually, with the face covered and the clothes they are wearing, the person could be a man just as well.

Growth: Daughter, Wife, Mother
by pcody

Comment by chele:
im not particularly fond of a single person representing the idea of family. but it's a lovely image and the title helped create the non-visible bonds. 7.

Growth: Daughter, Wife, Mother
by pcody

Comment by TobyF:
Nice photo, but I don't see a family theme here other than the title.

Toy Soldiers
by pcody

Comment by mesmeraj:
I'm surprised so few comments, Pat and at the score. This was one of my highest photos. It was stark and powerful and emotional - very photo journalistic. I "got it" maybe a lot didn't - sometimes we don't spend enough time on each image for our brains to tick over, especially in a large challenge.
I like the set up you made, i found the twigs and other business to be approriate, since war is a noiisy messy place, not peaceful and unclutteres at all.
The one thing that did bother me was that the camera was focused on the toy soilder to the left of the "real" soilder. I would have liked the little guy with the gun pointing to the photo to be the one that was most sharp. The gun was your leading line, so thats where i wanted the crispness to be.
Those voters with no cams will do it to you every time ;)

Toy Soldiers
by pcody

Comment by aboutimage:
Responding to your request for "brutal honesty":

I "got it" when I saw your image. I knew you referring to war as obsolete (or wishing it obsolete, rather). I just thougth it was a bit messy with the extra "little green men", twigs, and general flotsam. I was not offended or put off by the concept in the slightest.

Message edited by author 2005-07-07 01:05:07.

Toy Soldiers
by pcody

Comment by Troutbear:
Extremely Powerfull!

Toy Soldiers
by pcody

Comment by jnthn205:
to me, this shot is awsome but it seems that the main subject is not on the toy soldiers but on the picture of the human soldier. Great mood here though.

Toy Soldiers
by pcody

Comment by nerdynotdirty:
This is a cool shot, but how exactly is it obselete?