Colorful living memories of Japan : today's Geisha
by vincentM

Comment by GuGi:
I am glad this shot did so well.
Congratulations! The ribbon is well deserved.

Colorful living memories of Japan : today's Geisha
by vincentM

Comment by Shrink:
Congrats on Ribbon. Great shot. Kyoto is such a wonderful city to photograph in. Do shoot more and add to your portfolio of great images from Kyoto. (will bring back great memories for me!)

Colorful living memories of Japan : today's Geisha
by vincentM

Comment by whiteroom:
cute, congrats on the ribbon.

Colorful living memories of Japan : today's Geisha
by vincentM

Comment by dleach:
I love these kinds of sites. When I am in Japan I see these ladies going through the crowds and no one seems to notice them.

Good job.

Colorful living memories of Japan : today's Geisha
by vincentM

Comment by BrianR:
Blue Red And yellow, went to the 3 best, congratulations on the ribbon...

Colorful living memories of Japan : today's Geisha
by vincentM

Comment by Tiberius:
Congrats! Goes to my favs.
Edit: watched more and more. Great to see the mobile phone hanging on the left geisha hand. Great for the challenge.

Message edited by author 2007-04-09 00:18:03.

Colorful living memories of Japan : today's Geisha
by vincentM

Comment by posthumous:
Great street photo! This is head and shoulders above what is really a lackluster challenge. 10 and the Posthumous Blue Ribbon.

Colorful living memories of Japan : today's Geisha
by vincentM

Comment by citymars:
Wow, really impressive, and absolutely fits the theme. You desaturated the crowd a bit. You did a good job (thank God you didn't go b&w).

IPOP
by vincentM

Comment by purpleflutterby13:
Greetings from the Critique Club.

A very good entry, and a perfect tribute.

The entry is definitely spot on for the challenge. An iPod is very pop culture, and the bright green, and the image repetition and extreme hue shifts in the middle are distinctly reminiscent of pop art a la Andy Warhol. The composition works well for this too.

At first the image struck me as oversharpened, but I think that's just due to the slightly uneven, scratched edges, which at first look a bit like the white halo you get from oversharpening. I think these could definitely do with a fix. They wouldn't take too long to burn or clone out, and I think the improvement would be drastic - pop art is meant to be perfect and posterised, the items used within it shouldn't really be showing signs of wear.

Anyway, that's about all I can think of. Great image, well done!

Jelena

Synchro Swimming
by vincentM

Comment by gg3rd:
Amazing capture! Well done!