Margaret
by melismatica

Comment by Cantique:
Nice lighting and costumen. I like how it brings out her eye.

Margaret
by melismatica

Comment by flip89:
Great shadows ... but perhaps a little less on the left eye ...

Margaret
by melismatica

Comment by hopper:
cool clothes, cool expression, cool eye catch light and color .... but the shadows distract a little bit.

Margaret
by melismatica

Comment by cmangis:
One of my top picks for this challenge. Odd and excellent choices, wonderful model.

Margaret
by melismatica

Comment by toddhead:
Good picture. The only thing I would change is moving the necklace clasp behind her neck so it isn't visible.

The Modern Diner
by melismatica

Comment by d14:
Hmm. It does kinda look like boba fett. Love how the color of this one turned out.

Sally (Black and White)
by melismatica

Comment by melismatica:

Originally posted by cris: Nice Dog portrait. Reminds me of my dog when i was a child. She was a Collie Cross.

Thanks for your comment. This is my mom's Australian Shepherd. She is the littermate of one of my own Aussies, a blue merle named Bijou. The funny thing about Aussies is, in their scrappiness, they do rather resemble crossbreeds. Since their recent acceptance as an AKA breed they are more commonly seen in my parts of the country but not long ago, people would assume my dogs were mongrels. Sally has been a great comfort to my mom over the years. She (my mom) suffers what is effectively a chronic form of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma.

Help yourself but choose wisely.
by melismatica

Comment by AmiYuy:
What the heck, I understood your photo... -_- I don't get it, what happened in this challenge? This is a great photo that should have done much better! It especially didn't deserve 10 1s and 14 2s.

Your use of negative space/clouds & sky really draws your eye to the sign (not to mention with the red of the sign as you said). And there is nothing BAD about it at all!

Help yourself but choose wisely.
by melismatica

Comment by melismatica:
Accidently duplicated previous post.

Message edited by author 2004-06-23 11:46:58.

Help yourself but choose wisely.
by melismatica

Comment by melismatica:

Originally posted by agrimace: Sorry You didn't like my comment. I will try to be more succinct. I don't think that this represents a good choice picture since it doesn't tell the viewer what the choices are. I do like the colors and the framing of the storefront and the sky. I was not being flippant when I wrote the last comment. That is exactly what I thought you where trying to suggest. Maybe I ahve have been dieting too long. :) I certainly agree with your criticism and I will try to be more helpful from now on.

Actually, your comment was funny and not too far off. If you had followed it with, "No, seriously..." and what you said above, I would have marked is as helpful (and wouldn't have called you out in public--sorry about that--I was extremely sleep deprived at that point).

My intention was kind of a humorous elevation of the mundane kind of choices one faces at a Chinese buffet to the major life choices we make (the expanse of celestial clouds gave me that notion). I originally titled it, "Life is a buffet, choose wisely" but in my perverse way I felt that was too direct. I have an almost pathological aversion to insulting the viewer's intelligence with leading titles. Obviously, the double-meaning was too obscure and needed the clarity of a different title.

Thanks for the follow-up!

Message edited by author 2004-06-23 11:47:29.