See No Evil
by librodo

Comment by e301:
There are a number of things that can explain the low votes; a dislike of the portrait genre; a dislike of repetition in submissions; a suspicion that the photographer actually isn't challenging him/herself; a dislike of a sense of exploitation in photography (not everyone like Arbus' work, either); a dislike of the high-contrast mono production; a bunch of other stuff, probably.

The fact is, that this is a popularity contest here, and Manny knows he can score well with this stuff. If his sole consideration re DPC is to score well, it is evidently inevitable that a shot of this woman would be his entry.

My personal opinion is that it's a boring choice (both as entry and as winner), for that very inevitability, and in a genre that I just don't understand, and that doesn't seem very 'photographic' to me: rather, 'illustrative'. But more power to Manny for his popularity here, and his success outside of here; and likewise, more power to those willing to voice their dislike of that sense of inevitability in challenge results these days.

See No Evil
by librodo

Comment by PERCOM:
Biggggggggg...... Congratulations My Photographic God!!
Hope oneday I will be able to get result like 1/100000000 of yours.

Touched by the Evening Light
by librodo

Comment by aabatkinson:
beautiful

See No Evil
by librodo

Comment by Pedro:

Originally posted by whiterook: That is not true LARUS. We don't like the picture!!!! The picture is to dark crop is to much. Is this a Blue ribbon I will stick with Brown ribbon!

And you'll likely get your wish, Whiterook.

As for you, Manny...well - you already know what I think about the entire series with Rosalinda. Pure Genius. Ballsy and real...the way an A-Class artist should be ;)

All the best, Pare...keep on bein' you.

P

See No Evil
by librodo

Comment by UNTITLED:
Another stunning photograph Manny, congratulations on winning a blue ribbon in a very tough challenge.

See No Evil
by librodo

Comment by n2omega:
Congrats kabayan!

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by librodo

Comment by whiterook:

Originally posted by terje: Originally posted by whiterook: Originally posted by Larus: Well looks like there are about 9 people here on DPC that don´t like you Manny (the 1,2 & 3 scores) but the rest thankfully are a bit more mature :) Congrat´s dude! Don´t like this as much as your texture shot but that one was just friggin awesome, this is too of course and would have voted it an 8. That is not true LARUS. We don't like the picture!!!! The picture is to dark crop is to much. Is this a Blue ribbon I will stick with Brown ribbon! whiterook, if you have a very dark calibration on your CRT/LCD, that might be true. But trust me when I say this is truly a masterpiece, and it's perfectly exposed. You may wanna checkout a Spyder, to automatically calibrate your monitor. On my monitor your entries seem very overexposed, so I'm guessing it's a calibration problem. Manny, A-W-E-S-O-M-E! Congrats with your blue!

This shot look great on my monitor terje

See No Evil
by librodo

Comment by Greetmir:
One 1
Four 2's
Four 3's
Nine 4's

That is just TOTALLY insane. Do these voters have NO eyes at all and just pushing buttons at whim?

An absolutely ASTOUNDING photo. I am sure you are gonna sell this on somewhere. It grabs my heart. Congratulations on an awesome capture.

See No Evil
by librodo

Comment by angela_packard:
that is just one heck of an amazing photo!!! and congrats on getting best of 2006 blue ribbon!

See No Evil
by librodo

Comment by susi:
Big Congrats Manny!!!! perfect!