A N G E L
by librodo

Comment by aksha:
i feel fear, happy, sad, and strong at the same time. #$@*&%^*

A N G E L
by librodo

Comment by aksha:
heart pumping!!

Eyes
by librodo

Comment by aksha:
everytime i see this picture... *speechless*
anyway, this one always made me more and more in love with photography. really nice portrait.

Make-Believe
by librodo

Comment by kiwiness:
Good, the tight crop to the right doesn't bother me, even with the cut off leg, that is not a problem. If it hadn't been for the stool with the shoes it wouldn't have worked. The stairs or whatever it is in the background left brings in the balance. But I don't really like the irregularities in the background, especially immediately behind the girl's head. Also the prominent dark part of the stool leg on the left of the girl's calf muscle I would have taken out.

P U P A E
by librodo

Comment by kiwiness:
Gorgeous! The flow of this photo is its beauty!

Exquisite Gaze
by librodo

Comment by kiwiness:

Originally posted by bobdaveant: Manny, I love your photos, I think you are coming too recognizable for the masses on this site and are suffering from jealouly from some, thus the 4 - 1's and 5 - 3's, all undeserved.

I totally agree! The ones here are only from envy!

Exquisite Gaze
by librodo

Comment by kiwiness:
Very delicate, very detailed. The girl looks so young and fragile. Without the ring one would guess she is 11 or 12 years old, but the ring gives her age away. The desaturation of the scarf on the right is unnatural but here it works into the total image somehow, I like it. Excellent work Manny, I could learn a lot from you.

Misty Morning
by librodo

Comment by KaneNguyen:
What a beautiful scenery! you're a poet too. Ha Long Bay in QuangNinh, not in Hai Phong as you told.

Eye for Colours
by librodo

Comment by TheLittleIsland:
FOR petdog4020:
- from the challenge description -
Details: Stamps, coins, dolls, cars, shoes... people will collect just about anything. Let's see what makes your particular collection special.

For others:
I thought the "kid" comment was foolish. To assume that only people under the age of say... 25 are capable of making "immature" comments or having poorly rated images, is to be a fool. Furthermore, it is a fool who condescends, especially those younger than him/herself. The 18 year old mind and the 40 year old mind are equally capable of and likely to be immature, if in different ways.

I happen to have lived in a house with a colored pencil "collection" anyhow, and it looks nothing like the neat, orderly image I see above. Where, I ask, are the broken pencils? The extremely short ones? Why are they all sharpened? The image above resembles that of a Crayola advertisement.

My previous post was an angry attempt to challenge the voters to think about the images they are voting for. Much of the photography I see winning ribbons is not creative photography, but neat, crisp, overtly dull, sleek sleazy commercial photography.

In my opinion, photography is a form of art. Art is a medium that in order to remain art, should be dynamic and constantly changing. I see little progression on this site, and it is frustrating. Many of the shots that win are not rewarded for creativity but for sleekness. Perhaps my photographic and artistic eye is not agreeably developed, but I am fairly certain that I have seen a number of water droplet shots winning prizes consistently. Water droplet shots? Taking no particular form, with no interesting title, such images I dub "blank images."

I do not claim to be much better than any of this... I repeatedly enter images that are less than impressive to my own eye, and are confirmed as such by voters. However, I think it's interesting that with the image I entered specifically because I knew it was bland and stereotypical, I received my highest score.

so... boo hiss.

PS: STOP OPPRESSING THE USE OF HARSH LANGUAGE. HARSH LANGUAGE IS AN INEVITABILITY THAT EVERYONE SHOULD LEARN TO DEAL WITH, AND IS SIMULTANEOUSLY AN EXPRESSIVE FORM OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE. WHERE WOULD HEMMINGWAY BE IF HE WEREN'T AN OFFENSIVE SUNNUVABICTH? STICKS AND STONES...

I AM AWARE OF THE IDEALISTIC NATURE OF THE ABOVE TEXT, AND ENJOY IT AS SUCH. I AM NOT, HOWEVER, AN IDEALISTIC PERSON.

Eye for Colours
by librodo

Comment by lectrol:
must have been anoying to sharpen all of those! and to keep them from rolling everywhere...