I Can Block the Sun with my Hand
by xianart

Comment by emorgan49:
Someone explain WHY this is not in the top 20? I hate to find my 10s so far down in the pack.

I Can Block the Sun with my Hand
by xianart

Comment by dahkota:
I looked over the top scoring images of the challenge. I looked where my image placed. I looked where my top scores (including this) placed. And I just have to wonder why I'm here. No, I know I'm here for images such as this. But I also know, with the results of this challenge, that I must understand that voters really annoy me. This should have placed near the top way above my image, which in retrospect seems so trite. But I will stay for moments such as this. Thank you.

The Plunge
by xianart

Comment by Ivo:
Clean shot and nice tones. Good luck!

I Can Block the Sun with my Hand
by xianart

Comment by Beach_mel:
Love the grain and contrast.

I Can Block the Sun with my Hand
by xianart

Comment by posthumous:
I feel like I am caught in the middle of a faint. I have no idea where I am, but it's somewhere very important. It is somewhere between feeling and meaning. The lines of perspective are a hand opening up to take me to an interior place I've never been, and I see myself as a child, trying not to see, and I see this frightful hand upon my own face, touching its pinky against my own hand. I am in pajamas that are falling open, utterly vulnerable, slipping into what I hope is the familiar world of sleep... but this passageway is utterly unfamiliar. I wonder if that is my whole life being drawn in the multitude of shadows, charcoal sketches of the images and incidents of my life. I am trapped in the moment before you pull your hand away and everything is obliterated by the sun into a monolithic world of white. 10

I Can Block the Sun with my Hand
by xianart

Comment by magnus:
Intriguing idea! I doubt it will do well because the average voter won't notice the hand-shadow, but it sure deserves to do well.

The Plunge
by xianart

Comment by pineapple:
Anticipation is indeed a nice part of life. 8.

The Plunge
by xianart

Comment by pacpinto:
Great setting, and good idea. Here's what I think would make it better: nobody in the water, model's arms in the same angle, and probably, in colour, and shot more from behind. Just my thoughts.

The Plunge
by xianart

Comment by madcrabber:
including all of his feet would make this image stronger

The Plunge
by xianart

Comment by quickpik:
very nice photo