Breeze
by Philos

Comment:
very nice, but too much sharpening. still a great picture

Discovering the "Wooly Ducketh"
by 2Shay

Comment:
Wow, very creative and very well done! Congratulations on the 12th place finish!

Moo
by rbenny

Comment:
Very hard shadow. A larger light source would help a lot to diffuse the edges of the shadow.

Puppet
by ridvanerkan

Comment:
Hard shadow. Using a larger light source would help a lot. Good composition.

iPod
by hsteg

Comment:
Very nice. Excellent lighting and composition. One of the best in this challenge.

swans
by arngrimur

Comment:
beautiful! definitely one of the best in this challenge

Schizophrenic
by postoakinversion

Comment:
Sorry there is no description in the Photographer's Comments section. The reason is because I submitted this with literally only a few seconds left, and didn't have enough time to write how I did it. I'm surprised it actually got in.

I came up with the idea about 20 minutes before the challenge deadline, and my battery ran out about 10 minutes later. It's just a long exposure with a remote flash manually triggered twice, with two different expressions. I believe it's unique because the "strobe" effect is only on a small part of the picture, or at least was supposed to be. It was (obviously) quite difficult to sit still enough with my head in exactly the same place while making a different expression. I believe I could've done a MUCH better job if I had more time and more tries. This was the best of the 10-15 I was able to do before time ran out.

Limeburners Lagoon, Australia
by Anjella

Comment:
great color! a little oversharpened for my taste. beautiful landscape and sky

I Scare Myself Silly! (negative O. B. E.)
by graphicfunk

Comment:
Funny and very well executed. Congratulations on your well-deserved top 20 finish.

Fort Sill
by postoakinversion

Comment:
Thank you all very much for the comments! I posted the original (unedited) version here for those of you who wanted to see the original.