A Walk on The Beach
by ZorbaTheGeek

Comment:
Great image... I would love a tighter crop (to focus more on the mother and child), and I would love to have more detail in the water, too much blown highlights

Mother Mary
by hanneke

Comment:
I wanted to try something like this (being a catholic) somehow your photo (without the title) doesn't lead me to mother mary, perhaps a little more covered face, less wrinkled hands... more like in a "prayer" attitude than a "posing" attitude, like there should be a deeper feeling, deeper emotion coming from the mother of Christ... you have something against you, we are used to seeing lots of different representations and form each one his own expectations from such a subject. I hope this helps, I am commenting with full respect to the subject, to Mother Mary and to you, I think this is a good photo but is just lacking something.

Moonlight Serenade
by patrinus

Comment:
A note from the author:

This topic has been previously discussed but I want to make things clear from my point of view:

Photography is all about the illusion and the story that a photo can tell. If a photo tells the right story then it fits the challenge. Else we have seen lots of great photos hammered for DNMC. I know there are a lot of nazis around looking for 'integrity' and exact fullfilness of the topics... but I see 350+ voters who did choose this one as a good ribbon for the challenge. So I say no matter what we can argue about in this forum, 350+ people chose this shot (and other so-called 'cheaters') in good places.

We could call scalvert a cheater for using glue instead of milk in this photo but it really is something we could all learn from. Thinking out of the box, creating the reality that the eye wants to see, rather than showing the actual reality... after all, are we not in an art's site?. Beauty has to be captured wherever it is found, we cannot let our creative process be restricted but comply to the challenge descriptions (thats why this is based on challenges).

One thing I have learned on DPC is to look at reality through a different eye... more like the photograper eye or even more, like the viewer's eye, in this shot I just wanted to recreate the avid search of '4-5 am reality' that we all were looking for, it looks that I succeded and feel happy about it.

I humbly say that I am not a good photographer and I have nothing to teach to any of you, I apologize to all of you who feel cheated by my post and I also apologize to those who felt their shot would have more 'rightfuly' placed 3rd. I placed the truth in my photo description so that everyone would be able to know what this shot was actually about.

If it's any consolation I did get up at 4am to pos-process this shot ;) j/k

Thank you all for your high votes, Im happy for my 3rd ribbon this year!! :) way to gooo! ;)

Split Second
by Rikki

Comment:
Rikki!!! I thought you were definitely going to beat me!! Sooo clooooseeee!!!! Congratulations for your top 5, this is a great photo, I hope to see you ribboning soon, keep it up!!

Early portrait of an early girl
by srugolo

Comment:
cute!

Jumped The Gun
by Kris287

Comment:
OMG why did you chose this small size, it could have been a gret shot but I can't see it :S sorry

Predators at the break of dawn
by abhishekbiswas

Comment:
This is just beautiful and awesome!! great photo, I think its going to end higher than mine :S aawww, life sucks but you deserve it ;). Definitely a ribbon for you. Congratulations :)

Shaving with a Toothbrush, 4:47 AM
by samanwar

Comment:
good light and funny, pose seems a bit over acted

TOO EARLY
by topdogg157

Comment:
too early and too small. Sorry, you can have up to 640 pixels, why choose 50?

It seems too early
by Hafi

Comment:
beautiful, great idea but I somehow feel the photo is lacking something... like I would like to see more detail through the mist. When I look at it I feel a little empty, something more would make this perfect