To experiment more, with different styles of photography
by Neat

Comment:
I'm guessing we'll see a lot of these goals :) no harm! hmmm, this looks like it was taken through something and not just pp'd. Please share when the time comes. Without losing any modern sense, it reminds me of old-time movies where the lamp would provide uneven illumination of the nitrates . . . i especially like how the subject is looking very slightly up and to their right and not dead-on. gives excellent feeling of being intimately scrutinized.

Have more fun!
by Cory

Comment:
This image suggests that you are on the right track (and, no, I'm not assuming that the juggler is you, just that you found the fun!) On a side note, you provided some (belated) inspiration for this challenge that I was struggling to express and ran out of time for. Along the same lines as far as the end goal, but an absolutely different type of spirit. Oh well.

Don't Stop!
by Tiberius

Comment:
This makes me really wish I knew what that stuff was, and that should speak well for your image. DOF is well-controlled and obviously intentional so good job there, but it is so focused at the foreground corner that . . . idk maybe something intangible registers wrong in my brain.

put them on the wall
by mariuca

Comment:
I hate you and your lovely house. Abosutely hate you. (of course I don't, and what a great goal. We all need to serve ourselves a little bit, don't we?)

To Let loose and Experiment More
by MinsoPhoto

Comment:
If you look at this long enough, you can imagine it blurring to the point of complete nonsense then exploding into clarity. incidentally, tthhiiss iiss wwhhaatt tteexxtt wwoouulldd lloookk lliikkee iiff ppiiccttuurree ttaakkeenn ooff iitt :P

Pimp My Ride
by mrbig65

Comment:
You can only hope that Xzibit has an interest in DPC . . .otherwise, good luck with this one, you'll need it AND the whole year! I don't know what it is, or if it is on purpose, but the masking seems a bit odd around the windshield's lower left corner.

Hike More
by SunnyHillsCir

Comment:
I'd like to see a picture of those brand-new boots come next New Years :)

60 pounds down, 60 to go.
by Yo_Spiff

Comment:
Way to go! Looks like a long-hauler, there. Trek pretty far?

discarded cauliflower stalk
by skewsme

Comment:
I loved it. There's something strangely seductive about this image, I feel "invited" into the white area, and that I will be carressed by soft folds on my way there. Weird, because cauliflower isn't particularly soft :) funny what light can do to things . . .

some days are diamonds
by ubique

Comment:
Even though I understand that photography can be a tool for increasing awareness by pinpointing problems etc. etc. it just irks me when I see pictures of homeless people in crappy situations taken by cameras that probably cost more than that person will see in a year. Often those images are pawned off as "art" instead of "photojournalism" (i know, fine line, but generally serve different purposes) and the photographer profits whilst the "subject-turned-object" never sees a dime, if they were even asked permission of. To form a rebuttle against myself, maybe I should have slowed down to gather the context and intent of the image instead of immediately eschewing it as I did. Short-tempered shallow-mindedness? I've been guilty before.

Edit Seeing as there is a great deal of conversation about this piece, one would be forced to admit that your image has definately made an social impact as the subject mattter is the focus of discussion vs. the subject himself. Therefore, good job.

Message edited by author 2012-01-18 06:57:08.