help me mom!
by Giles

Comment by Neat:
Heartbreaking moment!

help me mom!
by Giles

Comment by BubBroad:
Great photo, hope she was ok...

help me mom!
by Giles

Comment by SandyP:
Oooooh.... that makes me sad! Was that baby & mom okay? I live in Texas where a snow like means things die...Course, we never GET a snow like that.. but... It is an awesome winter photo tho! Very awesome!

help me mom!
by Giles

Comment by whiteroom:
Love this but not the title 8

vicki
by Giles

Comment by Giles:

Originally posted by sulamk: Originally posted by Giles_uk: 2x1's, 3x2s 4x3s and 10x4 so 19 ppl who don't like nudes ouch, It's in focus and exposed ok, the model my ex Gf is pretty enough? I do like fighting these up hill battles hehe, back in the day this would have gone down a lot better on dpc when there were more professional photographers and less soccer mums ;) no it wouldn't !the pose is too awkward and unatural and the cast is off putting! Got nothing to do with it being a nude!

Maybe you should go look at previous free studies from 4-10 years ago a lot more nudes then, hardly see any now. The last nude challenge was 2007 If I recall correctly so you can't tell me they receive the same voting they did then.

This scored highly on 500px, I liked the pose as it wasn't a cliched seen a 1000s times before pose, trying something different.

vicki
by Giles

Comment by sulamk:

Originally posted by Giles_uk: 2x1's, 3x2s 4x3s and 10x4 so 19 ppl who don't like nudes ouch, It's in focus and exposed ok, the model my ex Gf is pretty enough? I do like fighting these up hill battles hehe, back in the day this would have gone down a lot better on dpc when there were more professional photographers and less soccer mums ;)

no it wouldn't !the pose is too awkward and unatural and the cast is off putting! Got nothing to do with it being a nude!

vicki
by Giles

Comment by RyanW:
The shoes make the shot for me.
It's so often that you'd see a picture like this either cropped part way up or playing up the natural bare foot... the shoes add a fun element to it.
The model seems willing enough to do the shoot (proof is in the picture), but the body language (head turned away and down with eyes looking even further away), shoulders looking tense, arm posture of 'open but not inviting' and the blue lighting just add together in a way that make this image seem less fun and more work.
A smile in the corner of the mouth, a furtive glance, biting the lower lip or a finger, warmer lighting, or a more vertical/forward posture could have added some 'stay a while' factor to this image and some points to your score (i think).

I do think it's very well done and i'm a bit envious of your having a model willing to do these types of shoots, and if i had voted i'd have likely given it a 7, but with some of the other elements it would've been an 8 or 9 easily.

vicki
by Giles

Comment by HarveyG:
Agreed.
It would seem that a certain voting rule has been broken at least 19 times...
I liked the shot barring the blue caste, odd pose and all.
Perhaps I'm being a soccer mom about that but at least it was a 6, 7 with a more natural skin tone.

vicki
by Giles

Comment by Giles:
2x1's, 3x2s 4x3s and 10x4 so 19 ppl who don't like nudes ouch,

It's in focus and exposed ok, the model my ex Gf is pretty enough?

I do like fighting these up hill battles hehe, back in the day this would have gone down a lot better on dpc when there were more professional photographers and less soccer mums ;)

A thing of beauty is a joy forever
by Giles

Comment by Giles:

Originally posted by Jutilda: Cool old car. Volvo? Peugeot?

It's a morris minor :)

Was my vintage entry but messed up on the Sunday of roll over and entered into the wrong challenge :(