You couldn't have done better in a studio set-up for the lighting. Everything here works for me: zoo person showing a little teeth to mirror the mighty tusked walrus - joyful and majestic.
Why this isn't waaaaaay further up the scale is completely beyond my comprehension. This is just such an amazing image! I just love everything about it......the lighting, the detail, the setting is just so incongruous, yet intimate in its own special way......severely underrated.
-I've never seen a walrus look like that before, with his head so well defined and personified.
-a mirroring between person and walrus, but something more profound than a mere fat joke, though it's that, too, but not a derisive one, perhaps because the walrus is so noble.
-the beautiful mist of water drops like falling stars
and those are also the reasons this gets a Posthumous Yellow Ribbon.
Wowser - how big is that Walrus ?? I love the red 'S' shape generated by the hose - the clarity of the water droplets and the David and Goliath look between the two main subjects.
I even like the fact that both of them appear to be smiling to each other.
What a fun photo! This would be a great advertisement for the zoo it was taken at. The water might be a ttad oversharpened, but I think I almost like it that way. Good lighting. I hope you do well in the challenge. 10
The neat thing about this, other than the way the water spray is lit, which is very cool, is the sense or proportion this gives to the walrus - those are very big creatures! I like the way the light is on the whiskers and tusks, too.
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