kind of ominous looking... my Grandfather fought there

Well nobody said it had to be a pool for humans, nice shot and take on the theme.

This looks nice, author

Beautiful detail, and well suited to this treatment.

No wonder we won!

Author, the one to the right is a dead ringer for William Howe, heh heh!

Beautiful

Fantastic composition, good luck!

Great shot, lucky 1st try LOL.

Beautiful

Very nice, the model ain't bad either.

its really very good colors

Well Balanced.

I love this! There are a great deal of black and white entries so its wonderful to have one so bright and colorful. Good luck!

Great contrast in the eyes, well done, good luck!

She's got one heck of an "outie" belly button!
Nice capture.

great setup and photograph

looks like mushrooms to me.

Love the idea of having the fishing pole and the fish image well done

GO AWAY! LOL Love this one!!

Great expression =)

Lovely, so elegant too =)

Oh. This buddy looks like my late dog...

Except you can't adjust just the trees or sky as Mossy said - it has to be over the whole image. .... sorry missed that bit lol

The adjustments that Mossy is talking about are not about creating a selective coloured object. It is about adjusting the colour which by the guidlines on the site are allowed as per item 6.5 in the guidlines. The tool says 'selective colour' but it means that you boost(saturate) or desat the colour in the image to correct ie. whites. In fact I can say that there is an entry this week that uses this exact method

What Tools/Alterations Can I use?
In general, you should try to avoid editing your photos, whether in camera or with some editing software on a computer. Being a good photographer also means being able to take good shots without having to edit afterwards. We understand that enhancing pictures after the fact has a long tradition in photography and thus we allow for certain digital darkroom techniques, which is readily available in most photo handling software today. As a general rule, you are allowed to all adjustments which act on the whole picture and on exactly one picture (a.k.a. non selective editing). This includes:

- 6.1.: Level
- 6.2.: Curves
- 6.3.: Hue
- 6.4.: Saturation
****- 6.5.: Color adjustments/shifting****
- 6.6.: Brightness
- 6.7.: Contrast
- 6.8.: Gaussian blur
- 6.9.: Noise reduction
- 6.10.: Sharpness
- 6.11.: Crop and rotate
- 6.12.: Lens correction
- 6.13.: Camera raw editing
- 6.14.: Healing brush to remove dust and scratches from a scan or speckles from dust on your camera's sensor
- 6.15.: Duplicated layers
- 6.16.: Layer blending modes

@Fallinghorse: the described adjustments by MossyB are not allowed, the fact they are allowed within a 'selective coloring' contest is what 'selective coloring' contests are about and what makes them a special kind of contest.

I think that the image adjustments that Mossy has described are acceptable & within the guidlines - the same methods are used for some 'selective colour' entries in other comps.

great.. feel it living.

hey i liked it... i felt as if some one has stolen his important object/wallet or he has lost his passport.. and he is sitting sad in any railway platform or airport... lol funny but this what i felt when saw 1st this image !

Didn't mean to upset you, but with the original title the photo didn't seem to fit the theme, and you know how picky the Mods can be, It's such a good photo, that I would hate to see it removed. Perhaps it's just my grasp on the language. GL

Lovely idea...

IMO the title makes it off theme, how ever if you change the title the photo would be perfect.
Being lost in thought, doesn't make him a looser, but he could have lost his way, lost his money etc.
GL

elbows or even squatting according to the contest brief is fine.
Nice shot, Author

I have to agree with Kiwi, this does not, regardless of your reply, give the impression of being shot from ground level. did you mow the grass short in front of the camera, or were you propped on your elbows, I think the latter is the case personally.

very effective

Halos are the one major downside of digital cameras...
Edit: It looks better, now. the halos are not so bright and obvious.

It looks like you've over-sharpened this photo, there's a terrible white "halo" effect around the trees. You might be able to correct it somewhat with Image>adjustments>selective color>whites, but you may have to select just the trees and sky, so as not to adjust the rest of the image...

The black of the front most rail car is also a bit too black and over dominates the image, anchoring the eye in that corner.

To me, black and white throws the balance off for this photo. The dark values over dominate the image, and the thin rails just aren't strong enough, although the train headlines help some. Maybe if there were more shades of gray...

Edit: Much better, thank you!

fair enough, sorry for doubting you.

awwww this brings back memories. We released I think 150 butterflies at my wedding and it was so beautiful! Great capture here

well done, but I think it should have been in last weeks 'Extreme danger' contest. LOL

It's technically a beautiful photograph, but in my opinion you were not all that close to the ground when you took it.

beautiful, great shot, a friend of yours or did you just get lucky?

Great capture, I almost expect to see him chew chew chewing really fast...
Really nice lighting without being too bright or too dim.

very pretty, but the DOF is very shallow.

Backwards to please, I'm sure...
Very rich colors and a unique subject.

Beautiful composition, the patterns of the flowers and all those butterfly wings really makes a nice visual.