Tick Tock
by jeffzoet

Comment:
Sweet Home ...
Well, it's certainly different. Interesting & a bit strange. Gets your attention; that's worth at least 6.

Putting Practice
by sfarrell23

Comment:
It's a nice photo, but a truly awful putting stroke.

Boxes
by utro

Comment:

Originally posted by utro: Thanks to everyone for their kind comments! I'm really grateful. I just hope it wasn't a fluke and I continue to produce better photos than my first two challenges :p

Well this was NOT necessarily better than your first two challenges, Alison. It is VERY good indeed, but I think your Bridge was even better, and I think maybe you might too. 'Course, this one sure scored much higher! But I don't imagine either one was a fluke.

Hidden During Voting
by e301

Comment:
You don't look much like you sound, Ed. I had pictured more oval eyes and perhaps a roguish touch of 5-o'clock-shadow towards the southern extremeties of the bag. The inscrutable expression is , however, exactly as I had anticipated. I really can't imagine how you managed to keep a straight face.

Ready to get my groove on.
by Pedro

Comment:
Howdy Pedro. No wonder I didn't get the shirt thing ... it's a movie! Alas I haven't seen it; I can't stand movies. Haven't been able to stomach a whole movie since Citizen Kane (I was at the premiere, if I recall). I still like your portrait though, & wish I could give you back the point I deducted for what I thought was just a goofy shirt. Please excuse my ignorance.

I Am My Work -- the Thorn that Weeps, & Holds the Sky Entire...
by Bear_Music

Comment:
Howdy Bear:
Can't figure out why some commentators didn't realise that if your reflection HAD appeared in the droplet, then it would NOT have met the challenge! I award a Silver Star, Bear (and a Purple Heart, I guess!)

Edit to remove response to a comment since withdrawn.

Message edited by author 2006-01-17 18:09:32.

blk
by Geocide

Comment:
Adam: This was my only 10. It has an artistic purity and durability that is by comparison so pitifully absent in most of the images that finished higher, including my own. I hope you will be consoled (if indeed you require any consolation) by the fact that several of the most discriminating commentators in the DPC community recognised the quality of your photograph. I am not of course referring to myself, but if you examine the comments list below, you'll quickly pick them out. Then again, I guess you already have; it takes one to know one!

Toyland
by Jesuispeure

Comment:
I had you in my 6's, but I can't leave you there. This unusual self portrait has an irresistible charm. It's an OK photograph, yet it's a terrific portrait, I guess because of the sum of all its parts ... the absurd background, the great hat, your quirky pose (hope I haven't offended you), and the desat treatment. Original and memorable. 7. No, one more look; it really IS irresistible, so 8.

Miyka'el
by mcmurma

Comment:
Bill Gates, yes? Well, even if you're not, this is a very instructive portrait. First because the crop gives it an intimacy that it would not have if your whole head was in the shot. And second because of the effective use of limited depth of field. Great all-round photographic skills, employed with subtlety and confidence. 8.

Finally.....
by Beach_mel

Comment:
A beautiful portrait, composed and photographed with restraint. I love the way you just sneaked in enough of the reason for your happiness to tell us the story, but not enough to steal our attention away from the subject (you are the taller one, right?). 7