Big Baby Blues
by spiderman

Comment:
you know you've shot a piece of crap when 95% of the non-insect entries get a higher score than your entry --- oh well, never underestimate the power of large numbers of ...

Still Life Gone Wrong
by wayne9232

Comment:
very nice shot - background & border match very well - only critique would be the lighting reflections -- most interesting to me are the comments so far - this being the week of the "insects" challenge and the broohaha about the spider entries, of the comments you have so far there are 5 that correctly identify the interloper as a rat while 7 misidentify it as a mouse - says something about how we should consider our audience and their perceptive skills when we choose our subjects

Overcome
by spiderman

Comment:
oops - forgot to enter my "ignore this entry" post before the CC got here - so here goes

as you may have seen on the boards after this challenge deadline came and went, i started the thread "ALWAYS CHECK YOUR IMAGE BEFORE YOU SUBMIT IT" -- i was in PS6, tweaking the red channel on the layers tab, when i got the image looking exactly like i wanted

the trouble was, in that view, the image displayed is b/w (which is what i wanted) - but when i hit SAVE it put all the channels back together - WITHOUT changing the view!!! as far as i knew right then, i had a 'perfect' b/w shot ready to download - which is what i did

imagine my horror when, after the 1st votes started coming in, i saw what people were voting on

Green Iguana
by Anastasia

Comment:
looks like an anole to me

Under the Wharf
by spiderman

Comment:
Gordon correctly feels that this shot is oriented incorrectly - 180* - but i liked it like this --- in hindsight, should have included more water, but i couldn't make it back down to the beach in daylight to reshoot before the deadline :(

Creation
by spiderman

Comment:
my intent was to have just the eggs in the shot , spot-lit from front-right for the "crescent moon" effect --- lens flare was accident, and i reshot the pic with the light blocked out --- but when i looked at the final results, i liked the flare more than the rest

Manhattan Beach January
by spiderman

Comment:
the day before i took this, i would NOT have needed to use PhotoShop to get the same colors - unfortunately, i was about 3 minutes too late to get the shot i wanted, so it was wait wait wait until the next day to see if i would get the same opportunity --- the answer was NO, CHUCKO -- so i'll take the next-best shot and tweak it, and that's what you see here (a PS to 'jerrft', under the right circumstances, the water reflects the color above it - have a look!)

Pretty as a Picture
by RLS

Comment:
weirdly UN-even thickness of inner border distracted me, and it's takes a whole lot of distracting to pull attention away from the purty flowers 8-1=7

It Never Gets Old
by Chuckie

Comment:
way too over-sharpened, as evidenced by the square & angular artifacts and the zigzag in the high-contrast diagonal lines 4

Up a Tree
by kevinswope

Comment:
perfect for "perspective" challenge 8