surely, this is close up, not macro.......

good effort, but the background is not black...

but this is close up, not macro, is it not!

somewhere to hide the body......

looks like the dad does................

groom!!!.................he don't look old enough to have left school yet..................lol

you might want to look at cropping the low right bottom from the shot, there is a difference in the background there.

no borders allowed!

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never could figure why we had to learn it, I mean how many times you gonna use it in real life..........

"...............and don't forget to mention in the description what you did to receive the reward you have photographed."
so what is it for..........and yes, I agree, it is out of focus.

what they would have meant was not to put similar entries together, not that you can't put two entries......it is to do with identifying authors by their pictures, it is not allowed here. If two pictures of a similar or same subject are presented, then others know who you are, and use that to vote one way or another. The idea is that all shots should be anonymous!

hey, that's what kids are for.....................

sorry, I cannot see the relevance of this to the contest. it does look more like a project in progress. it is also blown iut in a few areas.

agree with the cool comments, but they are also identifiable!!!!! we all know who the author is........

great capture, but I agree with the foreground comment.

as an action shot, this is good, but it still doesn't work for me as sepia, sorry author.

focus is not on the raindrop..........

lol....I didn't think so...........

no wonder I can never find one......lol

you didn't write that with that pen..........

I did wonder how you were able to get so close unchallenged!

I have been waiting for this shot............I am glad I was not waiting in vain, it is a great capture.......lol

author, I don't know what it is, but there is something there which is not in the original...........

agree with exposure comment.....is this a crash site, or a tip..........it does look like a crash site.

I looked at that....there is a blurring of some description along the tops of the trees on the bank. It is not in the original!

this is a very soft image, what post edit did you use to get it?

this is selective coloring, it is not allowed.

is this HDR converted to sepia?

need to lose the vignette........good shot other than that.....

there is evidence of selective editing in this shot..........a blurring tool of some description looks like it was used along the hedges on the far bank......

this is a bird of paradise plant, and is not being done any favors being portrayed in sepia..the colors in the flowers are amazing, and should be shown...imo

correct!.................

and, imo, choose your dof (depth of field) a little more carefully, it is a little oof (out of focus) around the pen itself.

Karaflazz, I agree with you.........author, this has the makings of a great shot, but it has been over done. The noise is just too much for this type of close up shot......a good crisp shot of the face of the nib would have been much better.

I have to agree with kyricom.........the pens look like they were an afterthought.

burn out in the middle does not do this shot any favours...imo

a good take on the theme, well presented, but I do agree with the king being a little overexposed.

if only I had the money to buy a D300............... .....this is so damn good, I'm not even going to bother to try and beat it.............

after six of these, I wouldn't be able to think enough to panic............ nice shot btw...

it's the eyes which get blurry, not the camera..................lol

another wonderful piece...........well done...

a close up of just part of this wonderful machine would have been much better. there is too much 'modern' in the background........imo.

excellent capture, no doubt about it, but, imo, it would be much better in full color. There are some shots which do not work in sepia, and imo, this is one of them.

this shot was used in the love letters contest.........