Nobody's Making Honey Here...
by Tolt

Comment by Tolt:
I can understand why it's DNMC... If the challenge guidelines had mentioned flowers, the challenge would have been flooded with them and there would have been fewer actual bees and less actual honey. I regret now that I didn't artisticly drip honey over the lilacs somehow... But again, allergic to bees, lol.

Thanks for the comments. :)

May
by Tolt

Comment by geinafets:
The green is a little oversaturated for me, but the placement of all the flowers worked out so well! Great composition.

Nobody's Making Honey Here...
by Tolt

Comment by JuliBoc:
You asked for help understanding why this didn't fit the challenge. I think I was a little abrupt in my first comment, but that really explains all those low votes.

It is a very nice photo of the lilac, and judging by the number of high votes you received, many people thought your way of interpreting the challenge was valid.

There is a group of members here that sometimes reward photos like this with an OOBie. It stands for Out Of the Box. It's for good photos that meet the challenge, but with a different approach or way of thinking than the majority of the entries. This should definitely be an OOBie contender, if the group is still awarding them.

If you care about getting a higher score, which many people don't, you need to be more obvious in your choice of subject. Many voters don't even read the description of the challenge, just the title, and they only view the photo for an instant (not enough time to follow out-of-the-box logic). This is always a problem for participants who are competing for the ribbons. For me, I use the challenges as challenges -- to take the best shot I can on a specific topic. I don't care about the competition, but of course I like getting high scores -- it gives me a little validation. And I have received a couple of OOBies myself. I proudly display them on my profile page. :)

Nobody's Making Honey Here...
by Tolt

Comment by PennyStreet:
I got it - gave the flowers a great score. And I love your thinking (no brain warp there that I can tell)

Nobody's Making Honey Here...
by Tolt

Comment by Tolt:
Weeelllll... I'm not upset over the way this placed, because I have never really cared one way or another. I do wish the challenge guidelines would have been more specific. All I read was: "A tribute to the missing bees." I didn't see anything that said the picture had to include bees or honey. When I think of bees, I think of flowers. My mistake, I suppose.

This lilac bush is enourmous.. It is probably ten feet high and it encircles my fiance's yard. There were no bees that I could see on the entire bush. So, naturally, I thought of how the bees were going missing.. And to me, it fit the challenge. Maybe my brain is a little TOO "different". Oh well. :)

May
by Tolt

Comment by ThingFish:
Beautiful capture of these lovely blooms. Looks almost like a painting.

Nobody's Making Honey Here...
by Tolt

Comment by weheh:
funny, but i forgot to laugh

May
by Tolt

Comment by aliqui:
I almost wish that foreground flower weren't there. That background is killer.

Water & Sky
by Tolt

Comment by GinaRothfels:
You have picked very difficult lighting for this shot. For the scene to look good you really need to work with HDR software and bracketed images at different exposures. Unfortunately good photos are often as much dependent on post-processing as on what comes out of the camera. If the sun hadn't been in the picture you wouldn't have had all that glare and this would have come out much better.

Don't be discouraged by the way this looks. You're at the beginning of a great adventure and you will learn from your mistakes.

Nobody's Making Honey Here...
by Tolt

Comment by ndistress:
But it's just a good image of a flower...