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Voted but left no comments. My two highest marks were for your lovely image and the eventual blue ribbon winner (I'm the 8; sorry I didn't give it a 10). How mystifying that this fine picture did not garner the appreciation, nay, admiration that I feel it deserves. It's a casual moment of night aglow with life, yet inky and unfathomable. The young men and the fruit, but for the tilting pineapples, are perfectly random, yet pleasingly composed. The surrounding frame is both muted and flashy in color and mood, minor key triumphant. No other challenge entry so appealingly offers to the viewer the abundance of summer. The silhouetted figures in the background coffee shop suggest nighthawks (as in the Hopper painting). This is a joyous paean to a wondrous world. |