Bubbles & Curves
by choltmeier

Comment by K3Master:
I like this, quite a lot actually, but uh, even I'm having a hard time shoehorning this one. Even metaphorically I can't really find the 'twisted'.

Bubbles & Curves
by choltmeier

Comment by outland:
A unique way to isolate the curves of the female form. The overall effect is almost abstract. 7

Bubbles & Curves
by choltmeier

Comment by rick13601:
Good photo. Good use of lighting. Easly meets the challenge.

Childhood
by choltmeier

Comment by jasonlprice:
This is my favorite of the challenge and really my favorite in a while. Everything is perfect and I wouldn't change a thing.

Childhood
by choltmeier

Comment by smudgeSMJ:
I like this a lot, nice use of backlighting.

Childhood
by choltmeier

Comment by aplomb76:
I like this shot a lot. I have nothing to critique it on. 9

Bubbles & Curves
by choltmeier

Comment by peter:
Cool! Interesting crop!

Childhood
by choltmeier

Comment by bobonacus:
nice candid moment

Childhood
by choltmeier

Comment by K3Master:
It was a beautiful sunny day. Melissa had run off a little ahead, and her mother had called for her to stay close, stay where she could see her, but on a day like this a child has little heed for the half-hearted words of a parent. A day like this was meant for running, and dancing, and jumping, and playing. A day like this was meant for exploration and discovery.

So it was she found herself at the water's edge, in the sand, so pliant to her fingertips as she etched designs and pictures on the surface. So it was that she was focused so intently on the bric-a-brac and her own little world of imagination. So it was that she didn't notice the rippling of the water just a few feet from shore, a rippling that soon grew an ominous and oily shadow that seemed to suck in the glare of the sunlight. Had she looked up, for even an instant, that dark and evil patch in the water would have sent her screaming for her mother. She didn't look up, not today, not on a day like this, when the sand begged for her childhood hieroglyphics.

Then, with barely a registering movement, the shadowy, oily patch in the water began drifting towards her. It seemed to grow as it came. 20 feet away, now 10, now 5. She laughed to herself as she continued to draw in the sand, the sun warming her face, her smile bright, her eyes awash with delight, and that shadow came. Only inches from where the sand touched the water, gathering in on itself so that it became thick, solidifying... it touched the sand.

"MELISSA! WE'RE GOING!"

The voice broke her reverie, and she stood suddenly and ran off to that commanding call, leaving her sand drawings behind, never realizing how close she had come to never responding to her mother's calls again. Some time later, another walker happened by that very spot, and stopped to puzzle about a strange mark in the sand there, as if a giant rake had brushed the beach and pulled the sand there into the water. He then shook his head at the puzzle and walked on.

Bubbles & Curves
by choltmeier

Comment by JulietNN:
Oh yeah you got the curves going on here. Gorgeous, curves just scream out of this shot. nicely sharp and clean cut. You nailed this, 9