Beautiful

Amazing in HR and a little spooky too = )

Beautiful

High res is stunning

Terrific!

Nice work, love the detail and colour.

Oh gee, whoever could this be.....

....nice shot BTW.

lovely tones in this.

lovely tones

rofl:

Cool lighting - I like that it picks up the light right along the edge of the belt

Seriously ... not serious! Just too wonderful for words!

My that's quite the handsome model you've got there Author!

I don't even know you and I'm laughing! GL!

That is funny ! =D

hahahahahaha omg!! this is lolsome!!
agree@ray
gl auth

Another great entry, a nice variation from what we've seen in this contest so far too. I like the thought that's gone into it, and of course the great execution.

Haha, i actually laughed out loud at this one. This shot is 'magic'!.

Oh and don't listen to anyone who might criticise you... afterall it's not the size of the lock but how you use it ;P

HaHa ! LOL

Very nice entry! Why, whoever could your model be???

great shot

Very nice. Good take on the theme. I'm not sure B&W is good for this one, but it's hard to tell without seeing the color

Yep, image is slightly blurry.

I would try and sharpen it and reduce the noise. gl

O.K. that makes sense.

Mod said a rock in water would not be considered on theme, so I guess that disqualifies this one too, nice shot though.

Superman into Politics..? huh..?! I always knew he would follow Lex Luthor..
hehe.. nice shot..

I agree if the whole thing was in color I dunno how much I'd appreciate that shade of green, But it's fantastic.

well done

I love this shot but it looks like you have a vignette... which i believe is not allowed. You might want to change it so it doesn't get pulled. Would hate to see this pulled.

It's interesting how a color can appear beautiful; if this shot was colored, it would be ordinary.

Funny! I don't know there, but here in Brazil a candidate can register a nickname for the elections, if he is know by it.

excellent work, well done.

Nice color! GL!

Nice!

It sure does Author, and good luck to you

This shot has been deemed to be 'on topic' by a mod, so let's just look at it in an artistic and technical way, the way we should look at it, and vote on it.........not so difficult is it!!

I think in color it'll look better. Good one...

wonderful

dang nice shot, did you set a timer on this? or wear a mask too.
Curious on how you shot it.

Or someone's butt-cheeks together? It's an awesome shot author and I was thinking of the same but I know of no welders so good luck!

lol groovy been awhile since I heard the word. Whatever the case, this is a nifty shot Author

wow... gone for two days and the world implodes. The mod has obviously looked at it. It looks as though they don't agree with me. I'll live (although hands are DEFINITELY not tools ). Vote and move on. All this personal stuff should either be handled backchannel, or in the forum - but not on some innocent third party's entry.

You want to read ade's private threats to me? Please get off your high horse. How did your definition serve anyone? It didnt that was my point.But you missed the point about the rest of the guidelines for the contest. Convenient. But now we can move on because you said so.

Sigh.....

@Mekun what I said to ziggy was was a result of a conversation she and I had where we both agreed to call each other out on this subject, if I misinterpreted her than I was wrong. The only reason I said anything to you was because you directed a comment at me.

What good did your comments serve? You simply repeated what other people have already said, hurled insults at a mod, and for some unknown reason brought me into your tirade.

The subject has been beaten to death, obviously it's going to be allowed to stay so vote it low and move on. How would you feel if you spent time thinking about, setting up, taking, editing, and posting a shot only to have people attack it, it's not like the Author tried to get around the rules, he felt that this was a good take on the theme and decided to shoot it. Maybe your right and it isn't on theme, but that's why we have the red flag system.

Now if the mod IS in fact Ade than your calling him bias is more than laughable, Ade would probably pull his own mother's entry if he felt it was off topic

@ Everyone else. The arguments for both sides have been made, this has gotten completely out of hand now I propose that out of respect to the Author we keep any further comments about this being on topic or not to ourselves.

LOL like you have any right to tell me anything. Ya ill point out when i think the mod is bias dont like that? To bad. You worry about yourself ill take care of me.

O and when did it become your job to have discussion about rules to anyone. "I recently had a conversation with one of you about mini mods calling stuff off topic and how that is a violation of rule 3.7"

Mekun I'm not ignoring anything, the argument was whether or not balloons or hands can be considered tools, so that is what I commented on, AND I'm not the only person to have commented on the subject so why are you singling me out?

And another thing, if you have an issue with a mod take it up with them through the proper channels, don't hijack a persons entry to vent your frustrations. To answer your question yes it is up to the mods to say whats on topic, that's why they're the mods, we may not always agree with their decisions but when it comes down to it what they say goes. Since your in the questioning mood though maybe you should ask yourself if it's your place to say whether a person's entry is off topic or not (check commenting rules 3.4 and 3.7 if your not sure)

Holding is not making one of them. Wheres the process? It must be shown on the job where is that being shown? Its a composed shot in a studio not on the job.

wow... 24 comments (with mine) and growing... Gotta love the attention. My 2 cents is that he made the balloon animals (product)using his hands (tools) so it's on theme. Just because I don't see him giving them to kids in the pic doesn't mean he can't still give them. No different than a carpenter, stone worker, or welder making a product with no customer in the pic. He is holding one of them, so to me he is "working"