Sweet sixteen
by edmeng

Comment by Kelli:
Back to comment... What a beautiful girl! Sweet look of innocence mixed with the I'm almost a grown woman expression. Well done!

Sweet sixteen
by edmeng

Comment by J-Me:
Love the softness of focus and the lack of heavy contrasting that we're so used to praising here in DPCland! BEAUTIFUL portrait shot and beautiful young lady!

Sweet sixteen
by edmeng

Comment by Lydia:
Beautiful! BW was a great decision. (not voting)

Sweet sixteen
by edmeng

Comment by hotpasta:
lovely eyes...nice as a b and w...

jogging on the beach
by edmeng

Comment by edmeng:

Originally posted by Yo_Spiff: Oh, wow, this is very cool looking. A great feeling of dimension and action to this. Judging from the apparent location and the discussion in the scores thread, I've got a fair guess this is a Melethia shot. If it's not, then make sure to take that as a compliment.

Thank you, Steve. I'm taking it as a compliment.

jogging on the beach
by edmeng

Comment by LevT:
nice image, Valeriy! (I should have recognized La Jolla beach :))

jogging on the beach
by edmeng

Comment by MaryO:
Just look at all the gulls! Great job to get them all in focus; I especially love that one right in front about to lift off. And then those two people perfectly outlined by gulls. Really fun image!

jogging on the beach
by edmeng

Comment by Yo_Spiff:
Oh, wow, this is very cool looking. A great feeling of dimension and action to this. Judging from the apparent location and the discussion in the scores thread, I've got a fair guess this is a Melethia shot. If it's not, then make sure to take that as a compliment.

jogging on the beach
by edmeng

Comment by Paul:
I'm going through the entries, stopping at those images I feel have had the benefit of an unconventional eye and dwelling a little longer to try to see and appreciate what you saw. This is one of those images.

Positives: This is quite lovely. WIth photographs, sometimes it's the small things that matter; here those small things are the walking people in the distance, framed beautifully by the birds and shrouded somewhat in mist/spray. The birds themselves are caught beautifully and the reflections are also well captured. The sepia tomes work well, though I suspect this image would look good no what toning the image had.

Critical stuff: Nothing really.

Overall: Excellent capture and presentation.

jogging on the beach
by edmeng

Comment by olimpiada:
Everything points to the couple jogging. Very nice!