play time
by Abra

Comment by EL-ROI:
Great emotive shot, very playful.

Mane of the Lion
by Abra

Comment by salmiakki:
I meant to come back and comment on this. This is lovely, one of my top scoring images in the challenge

Mane of the Lion
by Abra

Comment by mrchhas:
Three comments during the challenge! and a relatively high finish. this means you still have to shoot for abstract challenges!! :)

ETA: The colors and lines are exceptional! Seemed right to comment on the image as well.

Message edited by author 2012-07-12 11:43:00.

play time
by Abra

Comment by nam:
Wish the background was less distracting but you have done a good job minimizing it. Love the focus, light and joyous expression on the boy's face and the motion blur on the animal works, too. DMC and one of my favorites. Voted earlier.

play time
by Abra

Comment by Neat:
Really cute shot!

The Chase
by Abra

Comment by Ecce_Signum:
night shot with a subtle blur

Mane of the Lion
by Abra

Comment by Skip:
in a word, gorgeous! one of my top picks for the challenge.

play time
by Abra

Comment by giantmike:
The joy of a child having fun. Heart warming.

play time
by Abra

Comment by Jutilda:
His expression says it all! :)

play time
by Abra

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...

This looks like fun. It could probably stand to be cropped in a bit tighter.