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Comment by vawendy:
Hehe! This was brilliant! Congrats on the blue!!!

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Comment by grahamgator:
I just love your humor and this image, congrats!

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Comment by daisydavid:
I love the honesty, the live and the humour, can't beat it.

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Comment by Neat:
I agree with bear also, you definitely deserved to win, I mean who else would do something like this!

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Comment by roz:
this is wonderful .. i'm loving that its like a story .. the tool that was used to create that magic piece .. and the shavings ..
the light is beautiful as well .. :)

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Comment by roz:
many congratulations Lydia for such a brilliant photo so full of personality and fun ..
you do it like no other .. :)
oh . forgot to say .. so good you got the blue for this .. totally wonderful .. :)

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Comment by thrumyiis:
Congrats on the blue Lydia, this is such an endearing shot, made me smile..

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Comment by markwiley:

Originally posted by Neat: You are brave, very brave.

It is a subtle difference, but I think fearless more apt.

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Comment by JakeKurdsjuk:
Because you asked... I gave you a 6 for the work, but there's a lot here. Venser has covered much of it, particularly around "story" (you might have been able to tie it in with a title if you built it around "pink") but I'll add some.

When you're compositing you need to look at light and just looking at the coat rack you can see that light/shadows fan out from just that image and fade quickly, not like those on the flamingo that has them.

From there you've utterly messed with my OCD when it comes to lines and while the floor is fine your verticals are a bit of a mess for me, and a corner line always wins to a coat rack. You're shooting the room into the corner when perhaps you should have moved right and shot with the image plan parallel to the far wall.

Finally, it's vertical, and while I can see a lot of details here when it's presented to vote in a squashed format you lose details and nuance. I stay away from verticals whenever possible here for that reason.

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Comment by Cory:
This is ridiculously adorable for some reason, like a cartoon of the kindest lady ever. Incredible!