African Hoopoe
by sulamk

Comment:
Well done - nothing like a global medium to widen our horizons. Wouldn't have seen a lot of African Hoopoos without your help :)
You may be a thought short of ding-dong sharpness on this, but you got the shot and a great 'character portrayal' of the bird in its natural surroundings.
I'm looking forward to the series.

Crow Creek Mine #001
by ShutterPug

Comment:
I think I could have used some more graduation in the forest... Great subject for b&w though - stirring stuff.

Carousel girl
by Melethia

Comment:
You sure caught her.

In Norway (and no doubt Germany too) it is said that elves or pixies or some sort of magical little people dance in the shadows at the edge of the forest. A friend told me about how her daughter, on reaching the ripe old age of about seven or eight and breeching the walls of self-awareness, looked out of the car window while driving by the forest edge and said: "They're not there any more."

So thanks for taking us back to the magic.

Re: noise - you're an engineer (whatever that means, as there are several different ways to be an engineer, such that I even had it on my passport as occupation once because it was a usefully generic and imortant-sounding name) so you might be interested in this sort of thing. In the paragraph entitled 'causes of noise' you can see that most of the given causes there are likely to be exacerbated by holding a)the shutter open and b)current switched on in the sensor, for longer. I rest my case (without even having one).

Oh and thanks for your shadow commentary. Congrats on the ribbon.

Elemental Transmutation
by charliebaker

Comment:
Once again you remind us that the brown ribbon is a valuable trophy.
Elemental transmutation is not of itself a superpower but it is obviously enough a potential one and must be intended as such within the context of the challenge.
The picture makes the fatal mistake of portraying the superpower itself, as opposed to some popular iconic representation of a fictive character who...
Well done and thank you.

-
by whiteroom

Comment:
Oweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

we have a winner

or maybe I have to comment on every other entry in order to earn the right to bestow my own personal honour on this one. Oh, I've already done that.

Magic moment - and excellent composition (blecchh) too.

Oh dear, can only say good things.

Could pixel X147, Y17 have been 0.001% darker, do you think?

Congrats

Can you hear me now?
by drydoc

Comment:
You should get this week's prize for highest ratio of quality and creativity to appreciation. Unfortunately there is no such prize.

Here's one to be going on with :)



Message edited by author 2008-11-18 12:27:38.

Not pigeons
by Melethia

Comment:
Sea pigeons.

Front View (as of April 2009)
by levyj413

Comment:
Congratulations, Jeffery - it's looking good.

Our Frailties Before the Mirror of Reality
by ambaker

Comment:
Congratulations. Deserved it.

Sugar in motion
by millsa

Comment:
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