In the Woodshop
by glad2badad

Comment:
The ten is mine. I love it. This is how a portrait should be. very nice.

Denise
by claudia26

Comment:
I gave u a ten. If this is not a good portrait, I do not know what is.
Good work.

T
by Xilebo

Comment:
Pretty face and nice smile; it is as if the looks in the eyes makes one feel that he knows the person in the picture; however the lighting arrangement is not so good, the flashlight has left a shadow over the upper lip under the nose and another light source from a side, a window perhaps would have given it more of a 3D feel rather than the flat 2D feel it has; and I think I would, with advanced editing, clone some of the hair and cover the right side of the neck; plus a portrait orientation of the frame would have definitely served the subject better.
But all in all this photo has a deep feeling of some sort I can not explain. 7

Ever so quiet Gardenia
by Xilebo

Comment:
Nice work.

"Your call is important to us. Please hold..."
by gzupruk

Comment:
LOOOOL . 10

The Weaver
by HighNooner

Comment:

Originally posted by Xilebo: Congratulations with this excellent shot, like everything about it..

Thanks all for some very kind words on this photo, really made me happy; however some comments pointed that the photo was "top heavy" or "needed some cropping from the top" or "had a darker top", and I do appreciate these comments too, but I like to share my thought on why :"I left that dark area", with those who saw it my way and who saw it differently; simply, this guys works day in and day out trying to make an honest living with burdens of life getting heavier everyday and this sense of need a responsibility is greatly felt as one spend few minutes with him; so the top dark heavy area reflects an inside feel I had on this guys heavy load of need and burdens; and I just could not crop it out

Precision
by BakerBug

Comment:
I do not care either. This is a 10+ shoot.
Great, really good. never seen this phot before.
Man I love it.

winter and the river
by dragonlady

Comment:
The second good photo I found, after going through 65% of the submissions.
10

Striped
by Shermy

Comment:
The first one I found after going through 50% of this contest. Good work.
10

Solemnity
by unknowndeath

Comment:
10 very Good