Daddy Makes it all Better
by karmat

Comment:
Now I know why all those big bad beaten black and blues men sing 'Oh baby'.

Great take. Please tell me she's better now?

Blue's Man
by goinskiing

Comment:
Great picture - sort of needs more than one person in there if you're going to get the human interaction thing, so maybe that drags it down in the candid stakes.
As a picture/portrait of a blues busker this is top notch.

ETA: colour distracts - take it from me, I know everything. What?

Message edited by author 2009-05-01 05:40:58.

Contemplation
by canigirl

Comment:
It's a personal best! Welcome to the club.

And you're supposed to be young and green and ammacher...

This is a terrific capture of mood and moment - blown out schmown out - you hit the challenge right between the eyes.

Keep on!

miss connected
by posthumous

Comment:
Just in case you get the feeling not every picture tells a story, this one has a little collection to make up on the shortfall.

Beautiful pose, beautiful moment - and excellent composition to bring it all together.

Give yourself a Posthumous green ribbon for this.

Focus
by purpleflutterby13

Comment:
Good title - is this the hungover juggling league, by any chance?

Maybe misses out because it's as much portrait as it is candid - didn't hurt the winner though. Did you try b&w?

Good to see you back. Flame on!

. . .W A I T I N G. . .
by snaffles

Comment:
Gaaaahh! Somebody get me out of here! The pictures are climbing off the walls! Gaaaahh!

Didn't you read the bit in the handbook where it says that candids are supposed to be sombre meditations on - er - sombre meditations?

Just another promising candidate standing in the wrong line.

Shame. Great shot.

Doggie By The River
by sonniejake

Comment:
Voters are pretty definite about what they're looking for in a challenge like this, I guess. As you now know, a quickly snatched picture of an animal doesn't fit, whereas a quickly snatched picture of a person does.

Shame, really, as there's a whole load of doggy emotion (and lens licking) in this picture. We live and learn. At least you got the picture:)

"A Pig Walks Into A Hair Salon"
by rodfulk

Comment:
Definitely an ace picture, but hereabouts the genre 'candid' becomes 'dpc candid', naturally enough, and unfortunately you dip out there.

Pig facing the camera would have pushed this higher (not that one has a whole lot of control over that). The inclusion of hairdresser and client reflected in the mirror is great.

Another one bites the dust, but, you know, pigs are used to that...

One Against The Wind
by Quigley

Comment:
You're on the front page! Could you hold my hand for a minute? You definitely belong here - this is candid candid candy - well done for catching it.

Just a Moment
by BrianR

Comment:
The processing appears to have been both clever and disastrous :(

The couple are highlighted, no less, whereas the original suffers for them being indistinct.

The other thing you did right, of course, was to capture a magnificent candid moment.

Onward and upward! Basic editing is a drag at times...

Taking a little longer to look at it is rewarding - another dpc no-no ...

You've definitely done better than most in presenting a moment of private tenderness and joy. Thanks :)

Message edited by author 2009-05-01 05:09:45.