great photo

Very touching!

Looks nice and crispy in b&w.

Very very nice, love it GL

Great capture! The kid is just the right age for it

Thanks everyone!

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A lovely collection of old tools, I think it would have been better to just concentrate on 1 or 2.

I thought about that.... but wanted the anvil in the background to be in the shot to portray the whole "story".

vignetting not allowed, a small border are allowed in this contest, that is quite a heavy border, IMO

I really like the lighting of this. Did you add lighting, or was this just your exposure settings?

The lighting and tonality of the shots is very good, however, the focus appears to be a bit soft on the second shot. The focal plane appears to be just a few inches behind the subject as the head of the guitar is in sharp focus and the subjects face is not.

amazing

Congratulations on 1st and 2nd place, great shots.

You are a teacher ?

....I'm afraid it's worse than a teacher... it must be a maths teacher!

LOL @ cocor!!!

math teacher?

Yup a Primary School teacher. The big focus out here in Australia is Maths and English but we are trained to teach everything up to Year 6.

I liked Maths - It was my fave subject

NOOOOOOO! This would be the ultimate nightmare for me. All those kids.....OMG! Ill take slow death by fire ants any day!

Some days I think I would prefer the Fire Ants too :p

How old are you? You haven't learned your math tables yet?

I love how you have composed this photo. The shadow and lighting with the colors is very nice! It looks well thought out. Well done! GL! (-)

Cheers for all the encouragement.
@ Kyricom - I am 28 and they are still a struggle - hence why I am still on my 1's 2's 3's and 4's :p

Well... keep plugging away... you'll get them!