Hand google map
by Sisto

Comment by ecmguy:
Very creative take on the challenge... well done :)

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by Sisto

Comment by herfotoman:
Grand.
Print 1m*2m & hang by itself.
Sit & sigh contently.

My title - Top hat.

Hand google map
by Sisto

Comment by Ken:
Kind of interesting, but the lines aren't leading anywhere.

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by Sisto

Comment by grahamgator:
Camouflage in broad daylight; texture upon texture. Nicely seen and photographed.

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by Sisto

Comment by streetpigeon:
Pretty is not the diminutive of beautiful. It's a difficult, if not actually impossible, distinction to give voice to, but here I'm trying to explain a gut reaction. Pretty is delight, happiness and sunshine. Beautiful is glory, impressiveness, emotional depth and, okay, delight as well. Other stuff too. You know it when you feel it. This image is so uplifting. The leaves sparkle, the background elegantly sets them off, and as the leaves approach the top they mass into abundance. It's a garland to spring, to joy and promise. Very pretty.

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by Sisto

Comment by jmritz:
i see you put your signature down in the lower right corner. beautiful

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Comment by mitalapo:
beautiful (I feel there is something here beyond the composition and color pallette)

Hand google map
by Sisto

Comment by Zita:
With great interest I opened your submission. Why with great interest? Because I, too, had entered not one but two entries of palm lines. After all they are indicative (leading) lines are they not?

Alas, I withdrew both before the challenged flipped to the voting mode. The reasons I withdrew both are the same I see in this submission: self-photographed hands do not seem to show well. Both shots I prepared for entry made the mounts of my hands look like hams! I'm sure it was a matter of PoV but it was most unflattering. Secondly, the coloring - even in B&W and/or with Topaz effects applied - the skin looked cadaverous. Then, in my circumstance, the partially desaturated one was too soft. While your image is very sharp, unfortunately, it bears similar defects of my abandoned shots: PoV aberrations and coloring.

As painful as it is to receive a vote of one, it is more painful to assign a vote of one. One is what I am voting on this photo. I hope I have explained sufficiently the reason for this low score and would invite you to contact me after the voting is finished if you wish to plumb my reasoning further. Sorry.

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by Sisto

Comment by ubique:
Not my cup of tea and yet, and yet ... it's wonderful, and just goes to show that I know nothing. Or what I think I know is nothing, and what I don't know is something! Confused?

It's a lovely, deeply satisfying photograph. Absolutely perfect composition, so elegantly judged that it's quite unimpeachable on that score. The colours are glorious. And the contrast (I mean the figurative contrast, not the photographic one) between the delicate spray of the leaves and the bluntness of the streaked wall is ... no other or lesser word will do ... beautiful. I also like very much the suggestion of a distant skyline beyond the wall: it looks like a ruined or ravaged place over there, at least in my imagination, and that gives context to the foreground wall. Interesting (and humbling) photograph that I admire very much. Thank you.

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by Sisto

Comment by Jules1x:
I love the brightness of the yellow leaves against the muted colors of the wall. They contrast and yet complement.