3 Blind Flamingos
by Bear_Music

Comment:
It's a dreadful pun (which is the best kind, of course), but a fun photograph.

Moonlight Sonata
by luvmyaussie

Comment:
A lovely, elegant photograph. Our den-mother RKT is going to love this! I do as well.

The use of a deep, silken void separating the relatively well focused rose from the radically unfocused piano keyboard is a sublime touch. Tones are perfect. This is quite simply superb.

Polababy ™ Karma
by Bear_Music

Comment:
Oh God, what have I done? :-)
Great fun, innit?

Chloe
by Retroesque

Comment:
Super-duper sharp where it's sharp. Nice tones, too.

... With the Flow
by Germaine

Comment:
Woo! Welcome to 2009. I've already been here for 18 hours & 39 minutes and it seems OK so far.

The right half of this picture looks like something by Igor Posner (and that's as good as it gets, for me). The left half is a little less compelling.

Happy New Year, G.

B L I Z Z A R D
by Bear_Music

Comment:
Can't do that in Photoshop! Well, I suppose someone could, but wouldn't they feel a right plonker after they'd emerged from 2 hours at the keyboard only to see this, made by a dignified (if cold) old gent in 1/640 sec?

There's a lot I love about it, and nothing I don't. Perhaps I'll remark in particular about the way the horizon, the very earth itself, is being bent down before this tempest.

This is among the very best of LB images here, using selective focus to genuine purpose. I could look at it again, and for a long time too. And I will, because I am declaring it a fave and awarding it the Order of the Thumb:

2009 is on the horizon!
by Ecce_Signum

Comment:
I'm not one for vivid seascapes, but you are bending me in that direction with this (pardon the awful & unintended pun).
I especially like the way the horizon gently folds over itself towards the R/H edge.

field
by cgino

Comment:
Just about perfect. There's often a sense of misplaced optimism that attends windmills (more correctly, windpumps, I suppose), and you've expressed that mood of desperate, lonely perseverance beautifully here.

And to second the motion made by bear_music in the LB forum, I can't see how this same thing could be done in Photoshop. Nor can I think why anyone should try.

S T A R E
by Art Roflmao

Comment:
This boy photographs well, don't he? I don't mind the parsimonious file quality setting ... there are a great many photographs that would be much improved by a little less fidelity. This one has a lovely B&W film look done this way. Kinda arty, Art.

Julianne's right ... this is a very fine use of a LB for portraiture, especially at F/2.0 ... it's the kind of sympathetic touch usually seen from rkt (and she's been known to embrace a little less fidelity as well).

mission
by cgino

Comment:
I very much like this photograph. The underlying image is very, very good and will outlast the fashionable fad for texture layers. The light is glorious and the selective focus is beautifully judged.
(Of course, I suppose selective focus is a fashionable fad too, but it can't be a 'bad' one because I do it.)