To those of you who voted and left comments on my image, thank you from the bottom of my heart. You have no idea how much your kind words of encouragement mean to me.
To the judges, thank you for the time and effort you put into this challenge! I look forward to reading your eloquent comments on the winning images.
Good luck to all!
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That this didn't make the top 20, let alone the front page, is more disturbing to me than what this image conjures in my mind. You deserved so much better with this, though I suspect the jury will vindicate your selection. When I was voting my wife caught a glimpse of it and asked, "Who took that, one of your friends? That's amazing." Something to be proud of. I'm actually somewhat ashamed that I somehow placed ahead of this.
Powerful from the moment I saw it. The mismatched earrings complete the dichotomy of serenity (ignorance?) and enlightened consciousness. Top of the heap for me.
This image is fascinating. Somehow in the same way as some of Sally Mann's photographs - at the limit of comfort.
I stared so much at it and that my head spins.
In layman's term, yes, it's a 10
But I have tens of questions. This is art
Congratulations
Disturbing, haunting, mysterious feeling, with ambiguity supporting any number of interpretations yet leaving our questions unanswered. One eye closed, mismatched earrings, skin imperfections, close up perspective - all contribute to a sense of somehow intensified reality.
I'm just reflecting on how much more interesting this is for having the one eye closed (but not a wink), versus having both eyes open. That doesn't seem quite fair does it? That eye-closed is interesting and provoking, and definitely art, while eye-open in the otherwise identical picture would be nothing much to seize the attention, and merely a bold photograph. So does that difference illustrate the difference between art and not art? I say it does. Because the point of art – or at least one point of art – is to do the expected in an unexpected way. And you have done that. It engages and provokes, it crackles with invisible lines of force; it transcends by a country mile all the tacky faux-McCurry exotic veils and so forth. I assume that you asked her to close one eye, and yet I am entirely ready to believe that you didn't; that she simply requires one eye closed the better to see you with, my dear. Thank you.
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