CUTE! lol

Interesting ... dust et al

interesting selection of titles.

looks like someone needs to dust

Nice shot, but just a little OOF

A bit over exposed

i've been looking for that David Eddings book everywhere since i was a little boy!

30 seconds ????????????????????? very good !!! congratulations !!!

Ok I gotta admit this is cool, and I thought I was creative!

Great interpretation of the contest......kudos for creativity....Best of luck to you with this entry!!

Very Good Capture.Love it..

well done, i like the facial expressions

beautiful shot ! bonus marks for originality

Ah yes, you got to love that manual exposure feature. A nice capture! GL!

debdy, it is not off theme at all, the coffee is covering the lilies......! the guideline states....."Whatever the case, take a photo of it and send here! The figure must be clearly visible".......the operative words being...."whatever the case....."

Love it love it love it. I have never shot anything like this but I think it looks great

Creative thinking. What is that? Some kind of lily?

Nice shot.

Nice one, and title to match

Great idea! Very creative thinking

nice shot but a little out of focus in my opinion, good luck

beautiful indeed

Beautiful, just beautiful.........

Nice. I think the grass in the background distracts from the clump in the water. Still a very nice shot.

Nice!

Lamantine the fact that it's oof has already been discussed in depth, I think the author might want to hear a fresh comment.

powerful imagery good luck on this entry!!

awesome shot ! great idea and really dramatic

nice try , but a bit out of focus , good luck !

looks too contrasted

this kind of shot always looks better b / w.........good effort though, well done.

I am thinking this image would have looked better if it was grayscale but it's still a unique entry and a great take on the theme so GL!

great idea.... gl

Locks... I make my same "re"comment here as I did in the former image... Forget my pickiness and I will stick to:
Maybe a little too dark, indeed... though the composition is quite striking!
lol

another example of if the object don't come in a package of 6, YOU pack them... I think it's on theme

Maybe a little too dark, indeed... though the composition is quite striking!
BUT, I will repeat what I wrote to an entry above:
"This is about something which is packaged in 6... like 6 eggs, 6 cigars, etc. The rules are that the subjects of the photo should be 6 in number, should be packed, and should be countable so that we will be sure that it is a '6 pack.'"
So, for as much as you have only six matches, it is really not a 6-pack, but rather, a pack with only 6 matches left in it...

nicely done, good comp and tone, nice B&W subject...as stated before, to prevent all camera shat, either the timer or a cable release of some sort will definitely help...nice entry author

Oh...there's an easy solution for that. The camera should have a timer, so use the timer instead of pushing the trigger yourself. So when you yourself push the shutter it won't take the shake from that as the actually trigger is going to be few seconds later, therefore you can avoid the shake from pushing the shutter.

Another option is to get a external remote/shutter for the camera, which also neglects the trouble coming from pushing the shutter yourself.

a great first attempt.............although you said it was your first 'digital' cam, I suspect it is not your first cam!!!. The shot is composed reasonably well, although the focus could have been better. The subject works well in black and white. If this is what you are going to turn out, you will do well soon.....good luck

Topic wise, I really like the picture. Burned out matches look really nice. At first look the matches themselves stick out easily for the eye to see them. Though the picture is little dark, maybe too dark. The matches kinda melt to the darkness(though it's slightly better at high resolution) so it's hard to see any details on the matches. Also at high resolution it's clear that the image is soft. To avoid this use a tripod, a table or anything you can put your camera nicely so that it won't move all too much after you push the trigger.

Definitely a nice image for your first attempt, nyaa. Keep it up and you'll get some excellent pictures.

Congratulations for 2nd

Congrats!!

congrats!

congrats

Congrats for your second place!

this is incredible... lol

i know alot people who deserve this job. funny! good job.

*lol* "dental not included" Pretty funny idea! Good luck

great job on the text

I think this is very funny, but the sad part is that there are actual people who do this for a living LOL