Mr. Joviality
by jagar

Comment:
Irresistible top ten. Thank you.

Pout
by whiteroom

Comment:
Tick!

Primitive Smile
by mrbig65

Comment:
I can't say 'no' to this (and I say 'no' a lot). Top ten. Thank you.

N E C K
by ScooterMcNutty

Comment:
It's rare I like a ribbon winner, but this is uncommonly beautiful. Top ten. Thank you.

The Eyes
by 2mccs

Comment:
Best eyes in show. Top ten. Thank you.

Poet Choli
by wei1108

Comment:
It looks like him. I think it IS him. And it's good. Top ten.

Fezzik's eyes
by KfirLevAri

Comment:
So good to see a pet portrait that's so good!

In my top ten, and an extra point for the satisfying use of a transcendent frame.

this withering flower of dreams
by posthumous

Comment:
the flower of sleep ...

Beautifully elegiac. The only one. 10. Thank you.

untitled
by bspurgeon

Comment:
Wonderful faces, all the more eloquent for their nearly negligent representation here. Very satisfying composition, all triangles, lines, connections and disconnections, but never formulaic (you'd hardly know the 'composition' was there, it's so unforced and natural). Brilliant tonal palette. And grain that a film photographer would adore. All in all, there's nothing better in the challenge. 10, and a big Thumbs Up from me
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Untitled
by aznym

Comment:
In my top three because it's such a wonderfully interesting and restless picture. There's no way a viewer can just glance at this and be satisfied; it demands more engagement than that! Does the grain enhance that effect? Yes, of course. So does the fact that it's (unusually) in colour. As does the part-concealed face. As does everything, really. It's a superb, durable, marvelously open photograph! You've made the photograph (rather than the thing being photographed) the champion. That's a lamentably rare thing at DPC. Thank you. And please accept an Order of the Thumb: