From the ground up
by robsmith

Comment:
Remarkable depth of field!

It's 38 degrees Fahrenheit, it's raining and I'm not wearing a coat.
by milo655321

Comment:
Very funny.

Finally.....
by Beach_mel

Comment:
Extraordinary.

I see you . . .
by mocabela

Comment:
So distracted by the fact that I saw the same face, same expression, same pose, same lighting in the Pain competition just days ago... It's nicely lit, exposed and photographed. And though I know it' s not the same because the macara is not smudged in this one, the similarity is too strikiing to ignore. So what? Well every photo has its novelty factor; every trick wows less the second time around.

The Ghost
by Fyzarl

Comment:
Very unusual. Sodium lamps produce such glaring, garish light. Not sure I like it much.

Meditation
by Discraft

Comment:
Up, Up, and Away. Sorry, I had a hard time taking this seriously.

By the river
by nsoroma79

Comment:
You chose a beautiful spot to pose. But the problem with beautiful spots is that they rarely look good in photos. And the things that make them beautiful are the things one must generally eschew from portraits because the eat up space and draw the attention from the subject. So that log you carefully worked into the photo, that is a beautiful and photogenic log. And for precisely this reason it should be excluded from the photo. Same thing goes for those rocks, especially the one sticking out of your back. As for the lighting, it is flat on the subject's face. This is generally the least flattering lighting since it tends to wash out features. Also it makes people squint. And with a digital camera especially, strong sunlight is a bad idea for almost any photo since the detectors do not have the latitude of film. This means that significant areas of the photo may be washed out and large areas black. Sometimes this is the effect you want, but it doesn't work to do this to the subject but not the background.

I like the stump. And I like the pose. I'm a maniac about cropping and would crop on all sides.

Keep trying.

I like to imagine myself as a good photographer, but I already imagine I'm a middling judge of photos.

Portrait of Insanity
by kdkaboom

Comment:
Very subversive. That's worth a couple extra points in my book.

cold body in the road
by eirasi

Comment:
Here's a road less travelled. Purposefully static, empty, and cold. A lonely soul in an empty , cold world. That's what I see. But wait, the subject is smirking. Okay, I'm confused. Well, I thought the snow should have been whiter, anyway.

A Portrait of Everyday Strength
by Coley

Comment:
The thumbnail of this looked hopeless. The bigger photo looks ridiculous, but in a sly, humorous way. I wonder if we'd have gotten it that they were asphalt shingles if they had been cropped?