Self Portrait with Flowers
by banmorn

Comment by Coley:
Nice lighting effect

Self Portrait with Flowers
by banmorn

Comment by moodville:
Woo very manly! (Just kidding) The first thing that strikes me is that the edges on some of the flowers and the left side of your face look very 'sharp' almost like they've been masked to get the background black. As such they stand out, but kinda in that disjointed floating in nothing way. The seemingly separate lighting also helps with that feeling. Part of me wonders if you're involved with flowers and that's why they are there or else it's a DPC joke thing. Personally, I think overall the image would probably have had a better impact without them.

Let Nothing Ever Grieve Thee
by banmorn

Comment by srbrubaker:
Guys who look like this are always cast as dumb petty officials - sergeants, sheriffs, and so on. And we are conditioned to believe them incapable of tenderness or pain. Ordinarily this conditioning is so strong that seeing is not believing. Yet in this case the expression of grief seems pretty convincing.

Technically, the photo seems just about ideally realized. The man's face and the flowers express almost all of the full range of values from white to dark gray, leaving just the right gap between the shadows of the subject and the background. Lighting and focus are perfect. This could be the best of the bunch.

(I would have edited out that little pin prick of light halfway between forehead and alstroemeria petal. And I find two or three eyebrow hairs just a little distracting; but these are the merest of trifling quibbles.)

Self Portrait with Flowers
by banmorn

Comment by puzzled:
Ah, sooo cute!! Though I don't have nearly enough talent to make a suggestion, I will at least mention that I think I might like this even more if the light coming from under your face weren't quite so strong. But what a great shot! Make sure to keep this one.

Self Portrait with Flowers
by banmorn

Comment by terje:
Nice shot of yourself! I like the flowers, and your look. I believe in it, it's sincer. 9

Self Portrait with Flowers
by banmorn

Comment by vtruan:
wow no whiskers, how odd. Nice shot

Self Portrait with Flowers
by banmorn

Comment by ClickNSee:
Is he a florist, by trade? Nice shot, but the pedals on the right of the picture are just a little too bright. Pulls my eye away from the rest of the photo. <6>

Self Portrait with Flowers
by banmorn

Comment by tolovemoon:
nice light!

Self Portrait with Flowers
by banmorn

Comment by Kylie:
Guess we know this man!! Love it!

Let Nothing Ever Grieve Thee
by banmorn

Comment by quasi:
Well done, I am not even what you would call an amuture, shutter bug maybe.
But I do like what you have done here. Clear, Detailed and black and white captures the mood.