oh so you're the one with the twisted mind. I like it!

It's a shame because we find an identical plane (Caudron Simoun) to the one with which Saint-Ex crashed in the Egyptian desert in 1935 on Wikimedia: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Musee_Air_Espace_Caudron_P01_JPM. JPG

I think that the German warplane removes the poetry from this image.

Cute little one....

Dystopian.

Imaginative.

LOL love it.

The Oxford English Dictionary (OED)'s first recorded use of the word 'ladybird' is from a 1674 glossary of southern English words. The author describes how the regional word bishop is the term for 'the little spotted beetle commonly called the Lady cow, or Lady-bird'. Ladybug followed shortly after ladybird.

So, it's a lady-cow!

Very imaginative piece and I like the Tibetan monastery.

I haven't heard of the idiom either. The photo is great - lots of character in the horse and its beautifully sharp. Black and white works really well here.

SiamBUTT?... EEEEKK EEEK EK EK EK... hehehe (I know it's a typo, couldn't resist LOL)

Bet she gives good hugs

ew EW ew EW EW ew EW EW EW.. great.. but still.. ew EW EW ew....

Very good shot, made me smile.

...and just to the right is the Stupa I know. Just pulling your leg. (hey that is a good idiom)

Kerala, India. Sri Lanka, Mumbai, Rishikesh, Toronto! ?

I absolutely love stumbling across scenes like this and how wonderful that you captured this magical and brought it to us. I love the mood, the softness, the detail of the drops. THANK YOU.

Nepal?

I am not familiar with that idiom. At first I thought you had photoshopped this face into the tree, what a grand mystery this photo is. Technical are good from exposure, to sharpness.

I didn't know that idiom but it is good to know it now because I can apply it to a few friends of mine. You have really nice sharpness on the horse and his teeth and we can hear him laughing. The crop is apprpopriate and your dof is perfect.

Great idiom and what a catch. Keeping the ads in full view adds to that "urban" confused, third world feel. I like this shot for the humour. Technically it is a nice sharp image with natural saturation and good exposure shown.

OH I would love to come over for tea and a session on Photoshoppe techniques to learn from you my dear creative friend.....scones but please include the clotted cream. I WISH.

Your still life brings a smile to our faces, the cat ate the fish and it is a tea strainer...unique. The photo tells us a bit about you, as photography usually lets secrets out about the photographer. We see you have a genteel taste towards tea which comes from Guillin. The image itself is well balanced, good marginal space all around, it is sharp and well focused. Your colour palette has been thought through and is warm...in hues of orange which predominate, yellows which excite all against an indigo blue background which doesn't rob the shot but instead supports it well. A "delicious" photo replete with a bouquet of aroma. When can I come over and do you serve scones and clotted cream/jam with that?

Poor ladybug/bird with those tentacle legs. American English.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CnVf1ZoCJSo

Decent vote any way, carry on.

I thank the lizard/chameleon should be a little smaller,... not to mention that giant big ass parrot.

Looks good, but I'd think the monkey would be a lot smaller...it looks almost as big as the man.

lol, nice - WD... extra 15 points for the originality of the ladybird!! Pix xx

lol

Soylent Green.

your welcome

Well done for all four in this.

There IS GLORY,.....let me tell you why! You have inspired many a peon (namely me) to see the world differently and for that ....honey you score 100%......so there. Thank you for being here and inspiring us with your work.

You have a wild and wonderful imagination. May I borrow your frontal right cortex, please? (the right side of the brain)

Felicitations....I loved this shot.

Congrats Sylvie

YIKES a quadruple crown....FELICITATIONS

CONGRATS mon chou.

I just knew in my bones that this would come out on top...CONGRATULATIONS Sylvie.

Pretty morbid.

HEY! You're using my colors... hehehee (FUN)

;-O

I was here, now why did I miss this shot....grrrrr. Lovely balance and patterns.

Ahh this was such a lovely trip for us and we were here. Taking it into monochrome was perfect and you show a grand gray tonality. Like it.

I think I would like to go here someday. Rural with lake and homes dotting the countryside. This photo feels airy breezy and I like your point of view.

Love the depth, the movement, the contrast the post processing the framing...heck I like this one.

Good attention paid to horizonal cut rule making the shot more welcoming to "enter" it. Nice sharp focus throughout the image. Good colours, natural and not overworked. A solid entry.

LOVE IT....top marks and great title. Now all he has to do is love you forever!

Gorgeous work of art!!! Very beautiful.





And the Photoshop is pretty good too.

There are a few ways to take care of that ghosting along the edges. Of course using a brush at first to mask them out or trace around and fill it with black or white, but you don't always have to do that. You can Clip a Hard Light Layer on top of the tree (doesn't have to be Hard Light but that's what I use most of the time), then sample an area nearby and brush away the ghosty/haze stuff. I tend to use the clone tool for this instead of brushing as it's easier. Also in your Layer Styles you can try an "Inner Glow" (using various Layer Blend Modes, Opacity, etc) which can get rid of a great deal of that junk. I did something with a house a while ago and it had just a tad of residual blue from the sky. A brownish Inner Glow got rid of it which saved me a ton of time rather than trying to mask or paint it out.

This is about as easy as can be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2P54l0nP4GY
This video is more advanced where you can get even finer details http://tutvid.com/photoshop-tutorials/how-to-select-difficult-hair-photoshop/