This is a wonderful picture.

I love this!

Wonderful moment of childhood! I love this shot!!

Definitely a nice way to stat off entries in the contest. GL!

awesome! It has so much feeling in it!!!

juste ( awesome ) GL

After looking at the pic again, this is going to my favs. Again, beautiful picture author.

This is amazing .

Thank you so much for all the fav's! This picture really means a lot to me and it shows so much about youth and life in general! I just wish I knew how to get rid of the trucks in the background. LOL

beautiful

Super cool, and great how you included the little girl, it really shows off how big the bubble is =)

Trucks defocused in the background give it more depth. I think they're fine and this is a pretty perfect pic. Once again, GL!

Honestly, your eye is so focused on the girl and the bubble that you don't even notice the trucks in the background author. I didn't know they were there until you said it.

Congrats, it's a wonderful photo

HOLY COW!!!!! I Can't believe I got 1st!!!!! Never thought this day would EVER come!!!! Thank you to EVERYONE FOR ALL THE VOTES!!!! Not sure how involved I can be this week as I am getting married saturday but boy this sure was a great way to go into the weekend!!!! TY AGAIN TO EVERYONE!!! XOXOXO

Congrats very well done

Congrats MnM

Super, congrats = )

CONGRATS!!!

CONGOS

Although I like to encourage people to try new things..... I do think you may have "overdone' the HDR process a little here. You might want to re-process this a little bit.... go for more realism than the "wow" factor. What are you using to process the HDR? Photoshop, phtomatix?

first layer do regular image.... then make copy of original and past to 2nd layer change blending mode to overlay... then do desaturate then invert and guassian blur to 40% then copy original and make third layer change blending mode to linear light and change opacity to 40-60% depending on your preference and there you will get an better "HDR" effect. KK !!!!!!! i highly suggest you retry this image! it could be soooooo much better!!!

ill hold my vote till you make changes

this photo probably would have looked way better with no post edit.

i made some changes, hope is better now. thank you all for suggestions

I think the angle needs to be changed. Shooting strait down just seems like I'm watching this on WSOP poker tour. It would add more depth and art to the photo if you took it from an angle, maybe a close up of the cards from the side of the table.

HDR is ok now?

lol = )

Is he scared of sun tan?LOL

I'm just glad it's empty!

i was sitting... er... thinking about empty things and ... an idea struck me...

Pretty funny

nice take on the theme! I would crop it a bit though on the left side.

ok, thanks k5683, i will try that

edit: please stop by and see if this is better, k5683