Elephant Ear Leaf Closeup
by rox_rox

Comment by crayon:
actually I do think this is wonderfully captured.
It's just me, but I'd like to see this in colour :)

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Comment by aimeethetoo:
Congratulations on a great score and a top 5 finish. So well deserved. My husband and I had this absolutely pegged during voting as an original Scalvert. So perfectly done. And your lighting setup is genius (not to mention hilarious)! I always use God's lightbox too. So they really were real roaches? I mean they look like it and everything but eewwww! :) What we won't do in the name of art! Rock on sister!

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Comment by photoslik1967:
Congrats!

Summer Lubber
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Comment by graphicfunk:
As good as it gets in capturing these lovely creatures.

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Comment by sfalice:
Just excellent. Oh, yes. And funny too.

Congratulations.

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Comment by rox_rox:
Thanks everyone for the kind comments! I was absolutely shocked when my score started out so high and stayed there!

Thank you Robin for noticing the details in my setup. I did, indeed make them all from scratch, including the garbage art (which I have decided to keep). The chair, clock and picture frame were sculpted from self-hardening clay. That was the easiest part of the whole thing. Finding and posing the roaches was obviously the hardest. I'll never forget the way my husband reacted when he realized what I was doing! He must really love me to put up with the critters I constantly bring inside.

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Comment by robinssong:
Congratulations on your top finish and high score. Thanks for sharing the setup too. You did a fantastic job and I am so impressed that you were able to work with dead roaches and put them cute poses!

Love all the little details...doilies on the chair, cuckoo clock, and the adorable framed garbage-art tilted slightly. I have to wonder if you made everything yourself from scratch.

Hilarious! Original! Creative!

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Comment by Artifacts:
Congrats on your first 7! This is a very creative image in the true spirit of Gary Larson. Hard to believe it has been so long since his comic strip has been discontinued. You captured his warped sense of humor perfectly.

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Comment by LN13:
Congrats. Very well done. I personally prefer the color version. The lighting almost gives it the feel of the Sunday Funnies.

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Comment by CEJ:
Wow Roxanne - congratulations on the finish! Excellent shot! Very true to topic and well executed. I really like the b/w processing - the right choice. Got a laugh from this one which I used as a partial gauge for scoring in this challenge...this scored well with me. Great job! I love it!