Eye of God
by chalice

Comment:
Trading Post - OK - as an abstract I think this shot works very well. Cool colors and textures. The yellow on the corner though should either be gone or have more of it. I see the little bit of it and want to see more of it. It has a contrasting look and feel to it compared to the rest of the pic. I had absolutley no clue what this was a picture of. But for the challenge it was tough to vote this high IMO. I personally felt that you needed to understand what the subject was to be able to relate to the movement. Spending more time looking at it now makes me feel that I may have scored it a bit harshly, but in the DPC voting world where you spend all of a second or two glimpsing at a shot this didnt grab me or make me want to stay to inspect it further. At voting time I thought it was not interesting or relevent as a motion blur shot. Looking at it deeper now and reading your description I can see what you were shooting for but I still think it would have done much better in an abstract challenge.

grace-20060629-04-web.jpg
by elru21

Comment:
Beautiful shot! Great colors and expressions. Very nice!

Alice's Slide
by Qart

Comment:
Thats ok man - get it out of your system. I have a couple of brown ribbon contenders up right now myself. Only one way to go now and that is way up baby - GO UNTOUCHABLES!!!

nikki3.jpg
by azuractive

Comment:
Stumbled across this on a page of thumbnails and had to open it. Great shot. The vignetting works well to draw you right into the eyes which have a cool other world like effect. Very very nice.

In the Thicket
by Jutilda

Comment:
Gourgeous (sp?) capture here. I am not sure if you could have asked them to pose for you any better. The processing works great and guides me right over their bodies to their black eyes. Very very nice.

Just a Swingin'
by tngrndream

Comment:
Trading Post - OK, this critique will be based somewhat on your past shots for part of it. The technical aspects of this shot have improved over recent entries. The settings on your camera are right where they are supposed to be to get this shot. Perfect shutter speed and low ISO. This left you with no grain and the right amount of blur. You did a very good job at keeping on her face and allowing the rest to blur. The colors all around look nice and your postprocessing does not look heavy handed at all. You met this challenge well technically. Now beyond that, the improvements to be made would have been to catch her with a different background and maybe all of her body showing. If you had all green or plantlife and sky in the background and had cuaght her whole body I think you would have scored way high. You did really well hereand captured a light and fun shot. Again - always good to see a new pic in your top rated bar - and even better when it is one of your kids (which I guess I am assuming but she looks alot like you).

Meditating on platform 17
by olbol

Comment:
Congrats on your front page finish! Well done.

No Editing
by bucket

Comment:
Eeeeewwww!!! lol

He Ain't Heavy...
by hotpasta

Comment:
Giving you an extra point for a great title.

Greyledge Falls
by SJCarter

Comment:
Way to go Jimmy - had this as one of my higher pics. Well done!