Self Portrait
by posthumous

Comment:
This image is fun for me, but almost entirely for personal reasons. The smoke lends an effect that reminds me of my early darkroom days, when I'd forget to poke the paper all the way into the developer, or when I hadn't fixed all the light leak problems in the room. The smoke also helps to blur the details enough that the hair merges into the trees, and those branches in the lower right look like they're pouring out of your ear.

Day 3 : Hershey Atoms
by ShaneBlake

Comment:
This image is a bit disconcerting to me. Even with the title and description, I had to look at it for a while before I figured out just what I was looking at.

Compositionally, my eye gets pulled to the peak of the light/dark border in the upper left, but there isn't enough interest in the crumbs there to hold me, so it wanders down to the blurry lower right. I'm undecided whether I'd prefer the chocolate to be more identifiable or not though.

Surface Tension
by fracman

Comment:
Thanks everyone for the scores... My all-time personal best!

Granted, its only the 2nd contest, but YAY anyway!!!