Rural Cheer - The Tow Truck
by HUETH

Comment:
such colorful, round bokeh! Gives a nice ambience.

Festive
by neenee1999

Comment:
snow globe?

Holiday embellishment
by clickodak

Comment:
simple and elegant. Just the right amount of negative space. Perfect amount of spill below/behind the ornament. Wouldn't surprise me if comments are made about needing a backlight to define the shape, but I like the falloff the way it is. Very nice light. I dig this!

110 Hz
by Nowhere_Man

Comment:
Thank you LevT, and congrats on *your* ribbon! You also conveyed sound quite nicely!

Strumming
by LevT

Comment:
I could swear the guitarist is more of a "picker" than a strummer here, but either way, you have conveyed sound here. Congrats on the ribbon!

Fire and Ice
by kasaba

Comment:
thanks from me also for the behind-the-scenes insights, I may have to try this! Pretty sweet image, congrats on the ribbon!

Male & Female
by roz

Comment:
Does anyone else hear Marvin Gaye music? ha ha
Interesting insect catch lights!
Pretty good DOF there, was this stacked? Just curious.

110 Hz
by Nowhere_Man

Comment:
Thanks to everyone for their votes and especially your comments! I have been away a long time and it is great to be back.

HUETH, Lydia: I will admit a dirty secret or two- I struggled to get the vibration effect "strong" enough. The secrets were: don't use flash as the primary light source, and the biggie: loosen up the string quite a lot. Even then I took multiple shots to get this one. I kinda wish the sharp, frozen part of the string would have been in the middle of the vibrating part of the string.

roz: yes, the vibrating string is technically supposed to be vibrating at 110hz if using standard tuning. (note: since I loosened my string, the title is technically a big ol' LIE!)

kasaba: congrats on YOUR ribbon, great image and an inspiration to me for future submissions. The only reason the lighting for my shot was that complicated was that I was trying to keep light from spilling into the sound hole- there's a paper label inside there that I didn't want to be visible.

Mrrreow!
by vawendy

Comment:
I can hear the paper rip! My pick for the blue.

Late Stage Tailfins
by Yo_Spiff

Comment:
Neat! I love 59-60 Chevrolets and I have taken taillight shots similar to this many times. Often times people will misidentify non-Impala models as Impalas, glad to see this is not the case here!

I see very careful camera placement here, you got the lines just right, perfect amount of sky for framing. Pleasing the way the blue in the car goes with the blue in the sky. Bet it looks even better in full resolution. Congrats on the blue!!!