Capricorn Feeding Time
by leskataus

Comment:
I thought I'd already commented on this - I think it's brilliant. :) I gave you a 9 for it. (It took me forever to realize (doh!) that we don't know how people vote after the scoring is done so from now on I'm trying to post the vote I gave with the comments I give.)

Ready for Takeoff
by PaulMdx

Comment:
Wonderful... your macros are breathtaking. :)

143_4383a.jpg
by PaulMdx

Comment:
Wow! Now that's not just a closeup of a squirrel, it's a really GREAT closeup of a squirrel. :)

Electric Pop Art Heat
by Apollo2077

Comment:
Neat idea! -6

Day-to-day HIV/AIDS Pharmacopoeia
by flip89

Comment:
Scarily mundane for too many. - 7

Bored At Work...
by brownt

Comment:
Cool shot! - 7

French Bull
by undieyatch

Comment:
I like the balance of the various objects in the picture and I'm glad you didn't crop it to just show the dog and the skirt/sandal/foot.

......d&j greenhouse
by undieyatch

Comment:
Wonderful take on symmetry and just a great photograph in general.

snow fence & sawdust
by undieyatch

Comment:
Oh, I love this! Wasn't around when this challenge was going on but I'd probably have given it a 10. :)

Reaching For My Heritage
by carlacryptic

Comment:
LOl... this has been a real eye opener for me - the coments mostly surprised me but, then, I had a very distinct sense of what the picture was about - way too specific and unsharable in a single image. Perhaps if it had been part of a series (which, of course, it was for me, in a way - I did over 100 shots to get this one :), it would have been able to evoke more of what I had in mind.

I've written to some of the commenters privately, but thought I'd put the context here for anyone to see who is just passing through.

I'm multiracial, Black/White/Cherokee, and grew up in the 50's in the US. My hand in the black lace glove is reaching for one of my heritages in the form of the African statue (which I won at school for my learning of Swahili many years ago) which is distant and shrouded in mystery. Closer, and more likely to be felt, is the smooth, hard, glaring billy club on the right - representing the brutality my black ancestors have faced since being brought to this country against their will. So, obviously, the fact that most people didn't even realize it was a billy club (!), and that most people didn't recognize it was a hand in a glove reaching for the statue, a lot of the meaning was lost in the translation.

I live and I learn. :)