Slot Canyon
by Artifacts

Comment:
This is beautiful work Steve! I actually thought you would come out ahead of me in this challenge.

Second City
by kirbic

Comment:
Hot damn! first blue ribbon!

@flip89: I was aware of the other two shots, and hopefully I achieved my goal of an original take on this subject. I was in downtown Chicago all of week before last, and so my subject pretty much had to come from there.
Thanks to all the voters who saw what I saw in this shot.

Neon on canvas
by nico_blue

Comment:
4.8?? Ack! You were robbed! You deserved a 6+ average on this.

Wild Blue Yonder
by kirbic

Comment:
Thanks to all! I'm just in shock at having "doubled". It'll be pure hell to follow tho.
I really want to thank all the voters for seeing how the blue played as a little more than just a background here.

Message edited by author 2004-08-09 22:29:59.

Interrupted at Dinner
by kirbic

Comment:
Thanks to all, this was the one and only shot from about 1.5 hours of shooting out in the back yard that was even remotely challenge-worthy. Still, I really need to work on my lighting, and maybe catch some dragonflies if I'm ever going to best Jacko, LOL!

I also wanted to add some additional details that I forgot to include during submission...

This guy was busy having dinner on some weeds in a bck corner of our land. I still had good illumination from late afternoon sun, but with 1:1 magnification, I still needed quite a bit of fill flash. The 1/60 shutter speed preserved some of the ambient light, at the cost of a very slight blur on the thorax, which is only slightly visible in this reduced-size version. He would not make a very good large print however.

With the combination of title and image, I was going the "anthromorphic route", that is assigning human emotions/reactions to the subject. I imagined his thoughts on the fact that I disturbed the priviacy of his dinner with my photographic intrusion... can you look in his eyes and imagine his thoughts? Yikes!


Message edited by author 2004-08-09 22:38:23.

Eight Glasses A Day
by davidx76

Comment:
I'm reporting you for "abuse of a Guinness glass", LOL.

Saint Mary's Lake
by jodiecoston

Comment:
Looks like you overcame a bunch of the stiff competition! Congrats, well deserved.

Touched by the Evening Light
by librodo

Comment:
One of my favs from the challenge; congrats!

Angel
by heida

Comment:
Congrats heida! Well done, well deserved!

Kintla Lake
by jodiecoston

Comment:
Congrats on your first ribbon Jodie! And the blue at that! Way to go!