This is really good. Well done !

nice capture....

Great shot, what are they made of?

looks like bronze!

Ade and jean, your guess is as good as mine but probably bronze.

This is a nice shot, well done

ya ya this is decent, non staged... natural capture good job

great

Thanks!

I was actually thinking about shooting some sugar cubes. But it is a little noisy in high res.

It's actually not noise, I'm not to sure what it is but it's only on one part of the shot and it's on the Raw file as well. ISO was at 100 and there haven't been any lighting adjustments so I'm stumped.

mm, as Jaws says, there is some noise there, but only in the dark areas, very strange..........the noise has a pattern in it if you look over the dark area of the spoon!
Great compo though, like it!

i dont hear a sound

Could the noise actually be a reflection of the actual sugar cube? I notice the cube itself has a funny edge to it along the top - bit like CA

very strange............the noise is in the form of lines, similar to that which you would see on a badly printed image....there is also a strange edge on the top of the cube!

ade, it looks to me like these areas have been painted in photoshop, because the lighting is off in these areas also

Such a 'sweet' take on theme!

That's a cute theory Razor except it's wrong, I'm not exactly sure what I would have painted or for what reason but I also know your trying to discredit me because of a personal issue between us so I don't really care what you think Ade being a mod if you'd like the raw file I'd be happy to send it to you. The only thing that I can come up with is that this is cropped WAY down because a friend has my macro lens so I wasn't using the ideal one here and the spoon is a baby spoon.

neat

Good

good work. the highlight to the right is distracting, but the composition idea overall is good, well done.

Wonderful colors, perspective, textures!!!! GL

Thank you all for your comments!

I REALLY like the lighting on this one!

Very good.

great shot

Oh and the photo itself is a square! Nice Idea

I really love the look of those squares. Make me think about a nice stone chess board. *giggles*

lock: It's not quite a square(1,337px × 1,315px). Close enough, in my opinion.

I'm all for technicality but I think that's a little extreme. It looks like a square to me, I'm sure if I busted out a micrometer, the squares of the chess board wouldn't be perfect either.

I did say, "close enough", didn't I?

Hey it's a lot more square than some of the other entries I've seen.

Indeed, it is. This one is definitely my favorite out of all the entries so far.

Some of the picture look like the authors didn't even read what you're supposed to take a picture of. *giggles*

this is beautiful. the entire composition is just... breathtaking. nice job. definitely going to my favorites!

You should place the mirror closer to the board so theres no "gap" between the squares.

I was thinking the same think Karaflazz. But after pushing the chessboard up against the mirror, the mirrored reflection didn't quite line up like I liked, but your critique is much appreciated. At this angle the reflected checkerboard corresponds with actual checkerboard, if you know what I mean