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Comment by LandzEnca:
Maybe a preference thing, but I would have cropped out some of the upper left portion of the photo. The image is in monochrome, yet somehow it doesn't show much of a contrast.

I like the expression on the subject's face. The shot feels like it is part of bigger story, which suits the challenge well.

6 from me.

Lord of the Flies
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Comment by lunachicken:
This depicts the story well. I really like the effect the leaves have with the boy still sharp. He looks a tad too clean though. 6

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Comment by blindjustice:
Very nice. I found the processing felt like the creepy past, and the hand and arm split by the tree lumb was a nice detail.

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Comment by Neat:
This is like a scene out of a horror movie!

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Comment by herfotoman:
The colour of dying.

Pick a hand off your own cupboard. - I'd give it a red.

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Comment by Bear_Music:
I gave it a 9 as well. I'm in the camp that sees the ominous. "No good can come of this!" my mind is shrieking. That's a very strange relationship of trunk, shadow, and arm, BTW. An eerie sort of manacling... Or IS it a shadow? Another trunk? Whatever, it's eerie...

Message edited by author 2013-10-18 00:57:40.

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Comment by mariuca:
My mark (oh yes, it's important!) was a 9 only because the silly ipad did not register the bump to 10.
It's part of my favorite shots.
Again, my mind went to Tarkovsky, and my reading was way more gentle than I read in other comments. It has to do with paving the road, with family ties, with the clearing in the forest and a slew of other symbolic elements. Life itself

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Comment by PennyStreet:
My kind of dramatic. . Fills the frame with it. 8

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Comment by jayzundel:
I love this!

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Comment by tvsometime:
Impending horror? Strength in understatement. The processing pops effectively. Voted earlier.