tis not much,but.....
by cutout

Comment:
An incredible piece and my favorite of the challenge.

Down the rabbit Hole
by MinsoPhoto

Comment:
yes on all questions, I think I need another outlet, especially coming up on my slow season but I always end up back here.

Down the rabbit Hole
by MinsoPhoto

Comment:
Her skin was barely retouched and her eyes are cosmetic contacts. This was a very basic edit and is not much unlike the straight out of camera shot. Whatever.

and now we see through a glass darkly
by Neat

Comment:
Yeah, this is pretty awesome :) Great photo neat. Love it.

The Leaf Eater
by vawendy

Comment:
I don't mean to disappoint you, I do love your work and I am glad you entered this shot. I like your thought process and none of this is to take away from the shot. I can see where you feel this shot is about the leaf and wether I agree or not is irrelevant. Foliage is not a single leaf (and you are far from the only person to enter a shot with a single leaf). Foliage is a mass noun, referring to leaves as a collection or innumerable amount, a single leaf or 2-3 leaves do not amount to "foliage" but to leaves. If the challenge was leaf or fall leaves or leaves or even plant leaves that is different. Foliage is the mass of plant leaves which is not the case in this shot, or a number of other entries. The voters voted fairly and you won first page placement deservedly but I feel it missed the mark of the challenge (as do so many in many challenges, often my own) So please do not take this personally, it being on the front page made this the targeted shot but not do at all by lack of quality. As I said before, I do love your thought process and I love that you push the boundaries of the challenge theme, which I hope more people will do. But I feel as though the challenge was not met but the voters thought it was, or maybe they just didn't care because it is such a well done shot. I don't know, perhaps I was out of line, I just wanted to see what others thought but I also hope more people will see this as a way of thinking more loosely about the challenge. Maybe it is because I am marrying an English teacher and definitions get to me more now... Please do accept my congratulations on a gorgeous shot but it is a congratulations to a shot that I think doesn't really fit in this challenge theme.

eta, as far as single leaf shots, this one by far rises above the others.

Message edited by author 2013-11-21 09:41:38.

The Leaf Eater
by vawendy

Comment:
A truly beautiful photograph Wendy. The light is beautiful, your composition superb and the processing is divine but one leaf does not foliage make. I do love that you thought outside of the box but this time the outside of the box went into a whole different and unrelated challenge. I am disappointed that a shot that is not foliage by any means gets a front page placement in a foliage challenge but I do hope more people will learn to think outside the box. Just, perhaps, keep the box inside the challenge theme in the future?

Need a shave? - Xyrophobia
by MinsoPhoto

Comment:
Thanks everyone. I was covering a broadway themed fundraiser and got to talking with the people from the Sweeney Todd themed table and he gladly posed for this shot.

Area 51a
by hesitant

Comment:
Very deserving of the blue, congrats.

This is my kingdom!
by Alex_Petrini

Comment:
Nice work, I think if you had held the helmet so you could see your face you would have done even better.

closed off from reality
by Denielle

Comment:
Really great work,.