Moment of Silence
by FtWorthphotog

Comment by EL-ROI:
Good photo, well composed with nice use of available light.

Smile, it's your Birthday!!
by FtWorthphotog

Comment by grahamgator:
This is a great diptych; great model. I thought it would place higher.

Moment of Silence
by FtWorthphotog

Comment by Skip:
One of my favorite type of newspaper assignments is to capture "wild art", which is defined as "Stand-Alone, Feature Shot, Enterprise art are found moments that are intended to be realistic slices of everyday life" (definition taken from this glossary). These are typically images that caption themselves, not needing a lot of words to get their point across. For this challenge, I'm scoring images as whether I'd like to see them on the front page of a paper as feel good wild art. If I don't think they would make the paper, I'm then asking myself, "does it make me feel good?" If it doesn't do much for me, well then, oh well...

While this is a nice photo and a nice sentiment, it's not moving my "feel good" needle. Yes, there are things about this idea that I should feel good about, but there's more of an air of sadness than gladness, don't you think?

Moment of Silence
by FtWorthphotog

Comment by Giles:
feel good or feel sad? this says sadness and rememberence to me

Smile, it's your Birthday!!
by FtWorthphotog

Comment by tvsometime:
Wisely kept both images the same size. Captures the moment well. 6

mini-model
by FtWorthphotog

Comment by Tiny:
Good and not over sentimental.

Smile, it's your Birthday!!
by FtWorthphotog

Comment by giantmike:
Lovely way to capture a special day.

Falling Water
by FtWorthphotog

Comment by Yo_Spiff:
I didn't vote this challenge, of course I would have recognized the location. Great choice of subject. I haven't gotten my killer shot of the water gardens yet.

Smile, it's your Birthday!!
by FtWorthphotog

Comment by Melethia:
Great model - really gets into the part!

Falling Water
by FtWorthphotog

Comment by Kathy:
Sorry that I never got to see this back in the '60s when I lived in San Antonio - it looks gorgeous.