Beautiful

Beautiful, hope you were using a long lens.

What's free?

Well Jo, in New Zealand, it is still free to watch, view and photograph rare and endangered species, providing you have respect for the species and the flora and fauna surrounding ... free, something that a lot of our children and grandchildren will miss out on in their futures.

Yes, nature is "free." Too bad we humans are screwing it over so badly

lovely

Welcome to PXL author, you might to take some time to read the rules before entering anymore contests.

http://www.pxleyes.com/guidelines/

Entering similar entries is against the contest rules. You will want to either replace one with something a lot more diverse or flag one for removal. If you don't, mods will remove them both.

It's OK, most people break a few rules when first entering anyways.

better watch it jawshoewhah, you'll get this "3.7: Don't comment on 'administrative' issues of the entry (such as being off-topic for example), but raise a red flag instead."
I DID

I'm confused... I submitted this one once but then I saw it was turned so i turned it and replaced it...

ok photo switched. Wasn't sure what happened before but changed it just the same.

great capture...... plenty of emotion in this young lady, well done.

K 5683: If I red flag it some mods will just strait remove it like they do to me. All I am doing is warning the author. That way they can replace it themselves and still get to enter.

I'll take my chances.

and I appreciate it!!! It helps us that are new.

a red flag does not always mean the entry is removed, just that it gets looked at by the mods. it is better than users taking it upon themselves to act as mods and place comments such as 'off topic', when it is not . the red flag system works very well, so it should be used for the purpose it was intended.

I would like to believe that but I don't. I'm sorry but I had an entry removed not too long ago without any warning, just because I missed one little detail in the guidelines of the contest. So while the red flag may work great with photoshop contests, I'm not using it unless I feel the entry needs serious attention, like removal or questionable on theme entries. If I knew for a fact the author would just get a warning by red flagging, I'd use it every time, but sadly that's not the case.

Hey, I've seen that lady in another contest ^^ nice shot

LOL Um... I thought ya'll wouldn't recognize her! I'll see if I can change my models

It's too bad youth is wasted on the young, as the old saying goes. (She is a pretty model, though)

TY everyone again for all the votes!!!

cute

Yes, it is cute