nicely done author. the motion blur all around the single family gives a sense of 'confusion' here...i like this

Well done author to have an 11 shot pano of moving subjects and stitched together so well...impressive.

Great story shot, nicely done author!

nicely done, agree, the lighting is very interesting here

Very well done author, great comp and tones. The shot is also telling, it feels there is a story, or something about to happen.

That's great...I want one too! LOL...nice find author

Nice find and well shot, GL author

IMHO, not very candid if he's looking into the camera and 'posing'?

Nice set-up, included a person, but kept the focus of the shot completely where it's supposed to be, on the tea...well done author!

Nice work..good execution my friend...LOL

Nice angle, I bet this would look great as an HDR with all the color and tone...good comp too, well done

LOL...yea, sure appears like that. Nice work author. Wonderful idea.

I havent seen a metal slinky in forever...been trying to find one. Nice lighting author. well done

Nice capture, your persistence certainly paid off.

Very Nice work author, wonderfully sharp image, just a minor suggestion? The minor keystone effect of the wide angle on the walls of the building...maybe just a tad of pulling them to straight angles? (but that's just splitting hairs) All-in-all, a superb HDR

Nicely done author, I tend to enjoy the more natural looking HDR's for most nature settings. Well balanced

This shot is the "cat's meow"....LOL, nicely done author. I just tried something like this, but the darn animal kept moving too much.

I Agree, nice set up and execution. well done author

Author, not a bad job for learning. Very nice attempt. I see by your SBS, shot 2 and shot 3 look identical. In strong sun, try a properly exposed image, 2 stops under and only 1 stop over...might work a bit better to keep highlights from blowing out and get better shadow detail. Good Luck

Author, just a suggestion, to make it more abstract, I recommend cropping out the bottom part of the handle to get just a smooth flow of the wire and make it less recognizable. The curving lines of the wire leading to the top may look better.

Author, very fine set-up and the sepia adds to the effect, but the image appears to suffer from a bit of over-sharpening, resulting in a great deal of Jpeg artifacts. All-in-all, a very nice job in a hard contest...Bravo

Author, to get rid of the vignette, try shortening the tube a bit to allow more of the image to fall on the sensor. Also, take sandpaper (very fine) to hone the edges of the tube at the cut-off end. It appears your 'lens' or hole is very jagged...try re doing the hole with a fine sewing needle very carefully as irregularities will result in poor focus...GL

By the Hi Rez, it actually appears to be contacts as the girls iris's are all different colors...

By your SBS author...I see the focus problem here, Nice attempt, but there is either too much material making the hole deeper than it needs to be, or the hole is entirely too large. A very tiny hole increases the DOF to nearly infinity by giving an effective f/stop of about f/88-f/176

Author, you CAN fix the title if you wish, go to (my stuff)>(my contest entries) and hit (edit image) then just fix the misspelling...otherwise, a nicely done shot...

@ kyricom....LOL...

Beautiful....nicely done

Sorry Author, I have to agree with the above statements...the entire right side is out of focus, given the title "Green", one would anticipate the focus to either be on the green, or lead to it. Given the leading lines created by the skew of the bricks and the DOF clearly focused on the left of the image, it leads the viewers eyes not to the green, but off the image to the left...

Bravo...nicely done author. It's the mothers legs in the BG that make this an outstanding image.

It's for certain NOT attached to anything...too funny

Very cute! Nice theme here

Author: as per the contest goal: In this contest your goal is to capture a closeup of your favorite bodypart. Others can guess what body part is in your photo, so don't mention it in your title

I would change the title, or you risk having it removed...

Nice...love the BG on this, most people just shoot the fireworks, you have choosen to include the entire scene...well done author

Nice job author, you have them guessing! well done...

Finally!!!! one of the few entries that ACTUALLY FITS the contest theme! Well done author...

Others can guess what body part is in your photo, so don't mention it in your title or description

Others can guess what body part is in your photo, so don't mention it in your title or description

Nicely done author, sharp and crisp shot....great composition

Author, you may want to increase the saturation and contrast on this image...it's appearing VERY washed out and flat...not your typical high quality work...sorry

Actually I believe fiber optics work by a light source underneath and the normally "clear" fibers take on the character of the light transmitted through them...the fibers only appear to glow and are not technically in and of themselves a light source.

nice image author...perhaps a minor levels adjustment to blacken the shadows more might add to the dramatic effect of the shot...

Author, the rim-lighting is superb...great set-up and location, just need a hint of spot-lighting on the face to make this BAM! magazine worthy...sincerely great job

Appears more orange than yellow now...nicely done

interesting find author...would love to know as to why all these keys are hung on a fence...

Did someone get caught "Chimping"??? LOL

Ok...last point here and I'm finished....we exhibit our dead all over the world. Stalin still resides (to the best of my knowledge) in a glass coffin on public display, museums, teaching facilities and schools all display dead humans in various forms (skeletons, as well as preserved specimens). A similar image to this is in my daughters bio textbook (7th grade)...perhaps I'm insensitive, perhaps just a realist...

The Vatican and the Catholic Church also has had the dead bodies of Sainted persons on public display...

The author chose to tastefully and artfully incorporate the source image.

Driven...the coffin view photos were OFTEN published in local papers...

WOW....Just Wow....what a neat image and final result....as for the source, it appears to be a medical study specimen or something similar, it happens. no matter where you find some sources, someone, somewhere is likely to be sensitive to it...but the final result would have not been as good with a 'sleeping' baby IMHO.

As far as having family images taken from the coffin as it were....this was an extremely popular type of photography at the turn of the last century and was a sign of respect and a final image to many families...as a photographer, i have done bereavement photography also...

Yes author...this challenge is MUCH harder than it appears on the surface...automated software will not recognize an "outside" panorama....

Nicely done....great tones and depth author

Wow....with the exception of a bit of noise...just WOW!