until you hit a pothole in the road and fall off and break your neck............ not clever.

That can never happen we are proffessionals :P LOL never say die

never say never..........even professionals die, the graveyards are full of them......

ha ha

Definitely agree with Ade. So tired of these twits on the public roads who are so convinced it's "cool" to do wheelies (taking 100% of the steering mechanism of the road) or taking their hands off the wheel. If they want to be idiots and endanger their lives, that's one thing. But when you endanger my family and others, it's an entirely different story.

you won't think it is so funny author, when you have a spinal jacket strapped to your back through being a totally irresponsible muppet on the road.......and possibly causing the death or injury of others.

i wouldn't buy a used car from him or let him watch my kid's!

He is as nice as he looks like he is trying to be here

Does not say "Innocent" to me!

I don't know, I think if you look past the hair and beard and look at the man's smile and eyes along with his pose and carrying balloons there is a bit of sweet innocence there. But that's just me.

A man carrying balloons with a smile doesn't say innocent to you creativefreedom? Or at least that he's trying to act innocent? Guess the long hair and beard brings out stereotyping/judging for you then
I know a man who wears leather, has piercings, long hair, a beard and drives a harley but has never smoked NOR drank a drop of alcohol in his life. He is the sweetest man. Maybe I'm different because I don't look at a way a person looks...ya never know, maybe 90% of the young kids posted in the contest are complete brats! LOL
Thanks rbsgrl and yes, the eyes......

I dont know this guy personally, The photo does not say "innocence"IMO!!

IT's Moses But yeah I agree with creative freedom. He's a little too creepy lookin' to be innocent of anything.... except maybe a bath

I'd say the same about you if I had a mind like some others on here ;(

It's a lovely photo, but it does not make me think about innocence. A scurfy guy with pink balloons next to some religious stuff, would make me worried,

Jesus has long hair and a beard, I would say,"Innocence" This guy reminds me of the Jethro Tull Aqualung album cover

That made me laugh creative! Even though I don't really agree about him not showing innocence, that was a good one! LOL

LOL, you are all funny Yeah, maybe you are all right...from a different view he probably looks like a sick guy who would try to lure young girls to have sex with them some weird sex offender or something. I guess my view was better and sees the innocent in him because he truly is a nice guy

would you like a balloon little girl
LOL LOL

Lol! I am glad you finally realized what I am seeing, like I said I dont know him personally, I was not "judging" or stereotyping! My son has long hair and a beard, He does not look creepy nor does he look innocent, he just looks handsome!

Innocense is a subjective term so if you do not agree with this fitting that description: show this in your vote.

First of all this is a good shot! Hotestly I think anybody can be innocent at any age! For the very short period of life or even for 1 second! Look at this man: at this current moment he is absolutely innocent, look at his eyes! He is like a kid! I think it's right on theme!

Great shot, but so similar to one you entered recently, that we will all know who you are.

I think friiskiwi is right, your shot was great to see in High Res. This one also...

Excellent action shot..

Used before. Apparently there has been a rule change and you can no longer use the same image again.

If you think i posted the same pic why dont you look to see if i did, before accusing me.

I didn't say you had used it before, but is is so obviously taken at the same place and time (more or less) as your very successful recent photo.

Actually I think this misunderstanding may arise again in the future: on the one side the contest rules request anonymous shots, on the other one authors usually make several shots of the same thing/event so it would be a pity not to place several nice shots if on theme with different contest themes.
The rule could be "no similar shots in one and the same the same contest" which would allow authors to use different shots (of the same event) in different contests.
Mods' opinion?

Friskiwi i was referring to fallinghorse's "used before " comment

Looking at the comments, I have to agree with Cocor. This is a different contest, and it's definitely a different shot, and a good one too. To be honest, I don't actually remember who the author is, I will of course as soon as I vote,, but it's the shot that I remember, and well done for having such a memorable photograph, considering the hundreds we look at each week just on this site.
I will cast my vote.

This shot is very similar to one used in another contest but since it is in fact a different shot in a different contest it will be allowed to stay.

this is a great shot, but it looks like a lot of tonal contrast has been used, or maybe high clarity. It sort of takes some of the reality of the shot away for me, and makes it more 'poster' like.

Well adien it hasn't. Just slight contrast to remove some of the haze.Very little has been done to this pic. It was very bright day in 100 degree weather. Have you been to moto cross event? Just trying to figure out your point of reference.

I go to many moto events, and I know there is a lot of debris in the air. It just looked to me like a high tonal contrast shot, I didn't say it was though. There is a heavy haze in the background, but the motorcycles in the foreground, along with the debris, are very stark. It is still a great capture whatever way you look at it.

Its stark because there is no one in front of the front bike. If you notice the bikes get more hazy as you follow the bikes back. You see more dirt and more exhaust heat as you go. The last bike is almost an orange blob.