Whiskers
by BAMartin

Comment:
Barbara, what a great image. Fantastic capture of your subject and I love the way that you have done the B&W conversion so that the image does not lose any of its sharpness but still has a soft textured kitten fur quality to it

The Secret of Secret Messages
by HeiSch

Comment:
Damn your eyes, this is similar to a shot that I tried to get only much much much better!!! Brilliant colour and high key, amazing sharpness and a wonderful impactful image - 10

Plumeria alba
by gliphix

Comment:
Lovely shot and nice portrayal of water, though it feels a little soft in the focus

Water, Snow, Ice
by jimsapp

Comment:
Nice shot of three forms of water. I appreciate that you had to show the path in order to get the 'sater' element in but perhaps it would have benefitted from a slightly tighter crop (imo) to allow more focus on the sbow and that incredible icicle

Water Beauty
by rema15

Comment:
Thank you thank you thank you for displaying the raw power of water rather than going with the long exposure soft water effect. Great sharpness and a spectacular array or greens and aqua's

Happy to see me? No, guess not.
by Melethia

Comment:
OK, when I was reading in the scores thread about how badly you were doing there is no way on earth that I would have connected your score with this picture. I thought is was intriguing and enough like a part of the body to warrant being in the challenge

Perhaps it lacked enough breast for many voters

Edited for early morning spelling

Message edited by author 2008-04-14 03:02:09.

The Mentor
by SandyP

Comment:
I thought this was the nicest hand in hand shot in the challenge. Tells a wonderful story of gentleness as even though your husbands hand is (obviously) stronger than Jacksons its position (with the curled two finger) is actually softer than Jacksons thrusting hand, which creates a cool counterpoint to their actual hand sizes and skin toughness

(Does that make any sense?)

Lovely detail and black and white conversion

Dainty
by colorcarnival

Comment:
Hahaha, well the first line of your comments made me laugh (depressingly true)

Strange photo, in that from a personal taste point of view I have to say it doesnt really do it for me BUT from a technical point of view I thought it was really well done and a strong image

I quite liked the paradox between the title (and subject) amd the grime of the image

Constable Country
by rinac

Comment:
Has got several wonderful elements to it

1. Meets the challenge - Yes
2. Is original - Yes
3. Is technically strong - Yes
4. Has a wonderful sense of creativity - Yes
5. Is funny without letting the joke overpower the photo - Yes

9 from me - Good luck

Skyline
by pellemannen

Comment:
Great idea and well executed - I think if it had not been for river city in steel (which although I feel both pictures are as strong as each other possibly imo has one or two little additional touches) this would have ribboned. Still deserving of a very high score and a great placing. Terrific image and spot on in meeting the challenge