Nightmare on Elm Street
by danitello

Comment:
Great job! Your ribbon is well-deserved.... the exposure is great, as are the composition and subject! Congrats!

Real? or Stuffed?
by bcrants

Comment:
Fabulous image! Congrats on you well-deserved ribbon! These shots are never easy and you clearly had the patience to wait it out until you got the shot. that is the mark of a good photographer....

The Thomas Crown Affair
by Windtale

Comment:
Wow, what a stunning image! Beautiful exposure, composition, texture and subject matter. This is a clear winner in my book. I'd have given it first place....

In and out
by pall

Comment:
Congrats! This is a wonderfully crisp night image.... well exposed and very well done!

Manhattan Bridge
by nutzito

Comment:
It's never too late to add positive comments.... this is a masterpiece! Beautifully done! Congrats on your ribbon! It's well-deserved....

Writer's Block
by daevans

Comment:
This was actually my favorite image from the entire top 3 in each category! Marvelous work, and far more worthy and 3rd place, in my opinion. The concept and articulation are remarkable. Well done!

Serenity Under Chaos
by grandmarginal

Comment:
This is a blue ribbon shot. Hands down the winner in my book. Congrats on your Red Ribbon.

Nightbulb
by scalvert

Comment:
Wow! both conceptually and technically awesome! Congrats on your well-deserved ribbon!!

Speeding Will Kill You
by sahko

Comment:
Um, don't know the rules about jumping into a comment section about one of the winning shots, but I wanted to ask Nawets about his monitor calibration. I'm looking at this with an Apple 30" HD Cinema Display that is well-calibrated and the photo is not at all dark. Is your contrast adjusted correctly?

Also, just wanted to add that I think the toe tag is necessary in the shot if you want to give context for a MVA due to speed. The tag gives a very impersonal, almost "statistical" quality to this photo that gives it impact in my view. As a former healthcare person who has seen thousands of dead human remains (yes, thousands), this struck me because after a while, you start to just categorize them in certain ways -- such as "the MVA, the CVA, the MI, the Suicide, the homicide," etc. . . . In this photo, the photographer chose to illustrate a speed MVA fatality with that one item that grabs people's attention -- a toe tag. In fact, how would one even really know that the person is dead without it? This could be a tall guy waiting for a massage and treatment at the physical therapists office for all we know. . . . They use white sheets. And in this day and age, I haven't seen a dead body in a clinical setting without a toe tag -- too much risk of a mix-up. so yes, the toe tag works in my view. . . .

Speeding Will Kill You
by sahko

Comment:
LOL! yeah, unless you have access to your local hospital or county morgue it's pretty hard to come up with a dead body in 48 hours. . . . but you could create the liver mortis with make-up, although that gets a bit messy. . . . in any event, good job!