"We must enhance the light, not fight the darkness." - Aharaon David Gordon
by Dr.Confuser

Comment by chromeydome:
PostLuminous Award Nominee!
texture, abstraction, cool blue tonality all work together

"We must enhance the light, not fight the darkness." - Aharaon David Gordon
by Dr.Confuser

Comment by Yo_Spiff:
Well, whatever it is, I like the textures and shapes. I don't have a single clue as to what it is.

"We must enhance the light, not fight the darkness." - Aharaon David Gordon
by Dr.Confuser

Comment by Nforsberg:
a jug.

"We must enhance the light, not fight the darkness." - Aharaon David Gordon
by Dr.Confuser

Comment by seasaw:
Nice textures and excellent placement of the mystery black hole -

Liberty Rising (US Silver Dollar)
by Dr.Confuser

Comment by Dr.Confuser:

Originally posted by FocusPoint: Hello from Critique Club :) Dr. Confuser seems like confused himself this time, or you were working on this photo while doing some upside down yoga!? :) Advance editing lets you to clean the scratch on this lady's face, and actually basic editing even lets you rotate images, which you should be rotating this picture to earn few more votes... did you protest DPC or something LOL Good macro photo. Sharp, very nice, I really love the quality of it, I like the crop, very simple and clean (well, besides the scratch on her face) You got 5.5 because of the subject matter and the quality of this photo. If you didn't do yoga, you probably would get around 5.8 and maybe 6. who knows. I looked at your page, and nice work you have there. You do also have lots of practice, but you must check out the previous winners and get some examples and try to replicate those just for study purpose. You are here for a long time, a ribbon long due for you, so go get one :) Just don't do head-down yoga and photography same time LOL Good luck Leo

Thanks for the thoughtful critique, I appreciate it. So you know, I shoot for me and not really for ribbons or popular acclaim. In this particular case, I was thinking about the financial crisis and the battering the dollar has taken and there is an element of political commentary in the photo. The orientation was purposeful and preserving the scars on Liberty was purposeful. At least PhotoInterest got the irony.

Message edited by author 2008-11-23 12:53:34.

Liberty Rising (US Silver Dollar)
by Dr.Confuser

Comment by FocusPoint:
Hello from Critique Club :)

Dr. Confuser seems like confused himself this time, or you were working on this photo while doing some upside down yoga!? :)

Advance editing lets you to clean the scratch on this lady's face, and actually basic editing even lets you rotate images, which you should be rotating this picture to earn few more votes... did you protest DPC or something LOL

Good macro photo. Sharp, very nice, I really love the quality of it, I like the crop, very simple and clean (well, besides the scratch on her face)

You got 5.5 because of the subject matter and the quality of this photo. If you didn't do yoga, you probably would get around 5.8 and maybe 6. who knows.

I looked at your page, and nice work you have there. You do also have lots of practice, but you must check out the previous winners and get some examples and try to replicate those just for study purpose. You are here for a long time, a ribbon long due for you, so go get one :)

Just don't do head-down yoga and photography same time LOL

Good luck

Leo

"We must enhance the light, not fight the darkness." - Aharaon David Gordon
by Dr.Confuser

Comment by fridjo:
good composition and focus! some kind of clay bottle?

"We must enhance the light, not fight the darkness." - Aharaon David Gordon
by Dr.Confuser

Comment by smudgeSMJ:
A pipe of sorts?

"We must enhance the light, not fight the darkness." - Aharaon David Gordon
by Dr.Confuser

Comment by SoulMan1978:
I'm thinking fibreglass - perhaps an old bath?

"We must enhance the light, not fight the darkness." - Aharaon David Gordon
by Dr.Confuser

Comment by photoMAD:
hmmmmmm..... some sort of painted metal thing with a hole in it. lol :)