Corn Is Maize: The Gift of the Indians
by wkmen

Comment by Rastas:
The corn silk in the middle of the shot takes my eye away to the left. Came back to look at this one again.

sacred ground
by wkmen

Comment by kiwiness:
Here I would have taken a different shooting position. I would have gone more to the right and shot more to the left, in this way the houses in the background on the right wouldn't have been included in the frame and also the grave stone you cut in half on the left would have been included. I would have rather seen one of the two front grave stones in the foreground in full, instead of two halves as you have here.

sacred ground
by wkmen

Comment by Miah:
its interesting to me.. how sacred death is. buried dead bodies. It is somewhat of an abstract tradition. Thinking about it really makes you wonder about its origins. Was it at first simply a practical procedure to hide the bodies? - surely dead bodies above ground smelled horribly and attracted scavengers of many sorts... Somewhere along the line it seemingly became something of a ceremony.. religious even. The brain has some twisted learned behaviors. Me, i'm a cremation kinda guy. ;) its simple and it gets things done. tombstones seem more of an attempt towards some form of immortality that humans seem to hunger for than anything else. To be remembered is to live beyond life.

Fireworks collage
by wkmen

Comment by wkmen:

Originally posted by Jon Lucas: Very nice bursts - well captured. Just a note though, I can see some box edges where the images have been composited, which may be too dark to see on a PC monitor at standard setting.

Thanks. Too true on the edges... I put this composite together before I bought Photoshop Elements. I need to go back and do it again. I used Microsoft Photo Editor, which was simple, but doesn't show everything until it's too late.

Corn Is Maize: The Gift of the Indians
by wkmen

Comment by Ram21:
Good macro, I like the details.

sacred ground
by wkmen

Comment by muckpond:
i think this would have been better as a landscape shot instead of portrait -- there's a lot of "dead space" (seriously, no pun intended...sorry) in the lower 1/4 of the picture.

sacred ground
by wkmen

Comment by deckyon:
The biggest issue I see here is focus. Other than the "ICK" on the headstone in the left side, everything else is blurry, out of focus. I do not know if a tripod was used here, but it needs to be. Remember, out of focus is not soft focus.

Fireworks collage
by wkmen

Comment by Imagineer:
Very nice bursts - well captured. Just a note though, I can see some box edges where the images have been composited, which may be too dark to see on a PC monitor at standard setting.

Corn Is Maize: The Gift of the Indians
by wkmen

Comment by vrphotos:
hate the string on top... looks like a bug has thrown a life line to a friend on the other cob. could it have been arranged better to make a more intesting composition?

Corn Is Maize: The Gift of the Indians
by wkmen

Comment by justine:
Very nice. I shot Indian Corn for the last challenge. I love looking at it in all the many colors it comes in. Beautiful.