He who lives by the sword dies by the sword
by jsolsona

Comment:
works for me. 9

" you can't teach an old dog new tricks "
by Kaizer

Comment:
Nice puzzled expression but on my monitor some pathches look badly blown out.

I got my eye(s) on you.
by chikhing

Comment:
Lovely shot to remind that not necessarily all of us see the world in the same way. I only wondered if it had stood out more on a darker leaf perhas?

Foul Hunt
by efren

Comment:
I hope it could be relieved of the suffering?

Grapes; a billion dollar business.
by mpeters

Comment:
Or "Colour reels of Hitchcock's masterpiece North by Northwest discovered"?

Body found in swamp
by alpharich

Comment:
NIce idea but looks a bit dull. Did you try it in colour with a bit of red seeping into the picture from somewhere, for example?

New Kid In Town - Multicultural Education in Iceland
by gsal

Comment:
Hi. It's 4 from me as without the caption I would have failed to get the context.

Renaissancesque
by armin

Comment:
Thanks to everybody for fine comments.
The workflow from to the one submitted inlcuded:
1) Fairly heavy NoiseNinja because my P&S is pretty noisy at ISO200.
2) Curves to increase mid-tone contrast.
3) Slight overall saturation in Hues
4) Extra boost to the Reds in Hues to bring out the colour of the dress
5) Burn around the edges of the image and the headdress
6) Dodge arround the face
5) Crop, resize, USM & SFW

... and i'm hatin' it!
by armin

Comment:
Hi and thanks to everybody for their comments. For me this was pimarily an opportunity to tease something out from an otherwise rather flat source image .

I am nether a fan or an opponent of McD's, just indifferent. Been there once some years ago and never since. Can't speak obviously for the guy in white but it's kind of difficult to imagine him munching away a Big One.

Grandpa's Toy
by itsmetena

Comment:
I would think that incresing constrast a bit would help to emphasize the metal of the body here