GREAT JOB!!!! This filter works well with this shot

Pork Chops! Yummy

Lovely

Fantastic color and the subject is very intriguing. Great work!

Beautiful

nicely done!

LOL, I have no idea what the ?? was for :O I honestly don't even remember writing that on this entry. Hmmm

This is definitely on the fence but I think it'll pass. I see the same object (foliage) surrounding the flower on three sides. To me, that should count. I would pull the crop out a bit though so that the top of the bud isn't being cut off. Still, this is a great photo! All the best!

I'll go with that! Your right in it's not the traditional framing but it's out of the box. GL author!

yea I'm not quite getting it. maybe explain it a bit so we see your view?

What is the frame in this photo?

here we go! finally not a silhouette! but a person dressed in black and black as the main focus, good job =] (good thing i voted good huh?)

I like the colors here = )

Love this! well done author

Very unique!

My dad is a leopard, a nearsighted leopard...
Cute guy GL

As soon as I saw this contest I was hoping you would submit this. Nice one.

great color!

funny ... spotted pig

Nice...love the colors in this photo...are these your chickens author?

so cute...these are beautiful horses.

great shot...

That does look better.

HEY IT'S YOU!!!! Great job! Your abilities keep growin and growin and growin!

not to mention your focus... love it

Very cool angle on this.

Very nice. Different shades gives this something extra

What the heck is it anyway?

WHATEVER! You know what I meant :P but I fixed NIT anyway lol

Love the facial expression. Wish the rest of her leg were visable

Interesting subject, but imo a bit too dark to work with, would like to see more (colored) texture and perhaps a bit sharper. The background is a nice contrast. Good luck!

Great effect, highlights are perhaps a little blown.

great

Great shadow! NOW GO RAKE THEM LEAVES!

COOL SHOT!!!! Love the abstractness to it. YES THAT IS A WORD! lol

I guess its easier to look at pictures as potential stock when you have experience chopping them up . I think the keys are a strong subject of focus (which is all in focus), generally avoid anything that is too 'busy' or moving, OOF. I like this one because of the stong lines and various shapes. You could twist this pic in to a number of other objects.

My personal view on this would be to crop out some of the peripheral objects, such as the care & tree to give a stronger focus on the subject. But this is a better example of stock photography in my view. For inspiration as to what stock photography looks like check out one of rht many pages like shutterstock, sxc.hu. There are a heap of links in the 'resources' tab at the top of the page.

Love the look of determination on her face.

That does look better.

Looks like a Google Earth map with giant cows invading!

Congrats!!

I think this is a great shot. Love the DOF too. From a photography standpoint this is really good, just personally I'm not sure that this is a great example of stock photography.

Congrats on 2nd, this is such a lovely photograph.

The back ground is black and not the object, therefore a little off topic. The image has been altered way to much, the original is better. would have suited the curves comp.

I don't get it - overcontrassed?

very very nice work author....GL

too much use of curves to get the black.IMO

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Great idea, well shot!

Just lovely until the bugs come calling or is it screened?

Me too!