milkweed
by ursula

Comment by Simplicity:
Awesome! Fantastic lighting...such wonderful, intricate detail captured....A definite 10+!!

my office skills
by ursula

Comment by Simplicity:
Awesome! Wonderful curves and angles here. I love the softness and the lighting..terrific job!!

urban landscape
by ursula

Comment by laheff:
Absolutely fantastic. Well done

milkweed
by ursula

Comment by newtune3:
What a great macro shot. The detail is great and the light from behind adds to that.

milkweed
by ursula

Comment by ellamay:
i love the softness and background colors in this shot, the fine 'hairs', good composition. Very nice work.

milkweed
by ursula

Comment by LucidLotus:
I like the lighting on the whisps, especially the way it highlights certain ones like miniature lighting bolts. However, I don't like the color of the background - I think it competes with the main subjects. With them being so delicate I think a darker background that would let them stand out more would work better, but that's just my opinion. 6

milkweed
by ursula

Comment by hughletheren:
This is very clever, the highlights on the strands are very effective abd I love the back gound soft-tones.

milkweed
by ursula

Comment by neenee1999:
looks like a winner to me 10

milkweed
by ursula

Comment by dsidwell:
Hey I did a milkweed shot once! I like the colors in yours! Cool idea! 10

sweet dreams, my pretty-pretty
by ursula

Comment by e301:
I once had a huge appreciation for very pure staurated colours, like the blue in this photo, Ursula; but i've kind of given myself an ongoing task to investigate duotone/b&w photography, and so my mind is perhaps more focussed on contrat and formmal content than is reasonable to jusge a photo. All of which is mentioned because I think this would have made a wonderful black and white image: a marvellous range and variety of contrast, from the immediate black vs. white of moments in the statue, to the gentle graduation of the reflected sky and the clouds.

I like the parallel of the blown-out steel in bot the window frames and the statue, and the contrat of the fluid shapes of the art and the rigid regulated structure of the window franes. I'm kind of surprised to see it score so low ... though i think I have an idea why.

The reflected building: especially ggiven tha challenge topic. If the were no reflected structure, i think it would hav score considerably higher - I think that building adds an element of everyday reality that takes away from any feeling of the unusual, the non-humdrum, that's hurt this image in terms of the challenge. Likewise if you'd included more of that building, the efffect would have been different - some kind of comment on office life, or city life, set against the evident freedom of that sculpture. With just the qurter-view of it present, I think the pic falls between two stools a little, and I think that hurt your score.

Still, an intersting image, and a pleasure to think and to write about for fifteen minutes.

Ed