I really like the movement caught with this photo, it is exciting to view. Blue and yellow colour palette...couldn't be better as one colour supports the other strongly. I like the way you caught all the paraphernalia surrounding the main focal point. Your image is crisp, clear and nicely composed.

Warm , toasty, romantic, great capture of hues, and what a great story this upload has...almost makes me want to leave home.

Love the minimalism in this upload. I am a sucker for KISS principle and it works so well in this photo. I think your compositional style is really effective. Pleasure to see this.

Wayne, thanks to this upload of yours I've been looking at engines all day. I like your compositional style giving us a good focal point to rest our eyes on. B/W works well...good contrast too. Thank you again.

Kaybean, really like the framing you did with this and the exposure is really good, difficult with all that white but you nailed it. Congrats, nice photo.

Powerful, great, loved the emotive aspect, nice and sharp on the eyes. I think I'm in love............with your dog.

Great catch also, nicely composed.

Guessed this was yours. What a find.

I have been at this little monk for two days and WOW this is some great photoshopping skills. Thank you for posting this, thank you for inspiring me.

I think this is quite the creative and inventive upload and it is inspirational. You teach us to look at the world differently, closer, out of the box. Your diffused eye is dynamite in soft bokeh which supports the main subject (that bubble) which is so well framed, & sharp. Technically and artistically this image rocks. The contrast is well done , your exposure is sublime with no blow outs or block ups...This is a well thought out upload and it was a treasure to find. I enjoyed reviewing this image.

I like your upload for the cringe factor. Surely hope the knife doesn't slip and hit the family jewels! Your image is sharp as a razor on the main focal point with lovely bokeh softening as we delve deeper into the photograph. Placed on a diagonal with the point coming at us further increases the cringe....and to get an emotional response from an image is what it is all about. My eyes however are quite distracted by that blur of magenta/purple hues in the upper L (viewer's L) aspect of the photograph, it presents incongruity to an otherwise great upload.

It will be nice to meet you in person. I know we would laugh heartily at each other and together. RON ..... HALLO ......time for a wee little honeymoon trip to exotica!

I did but you still get a 5.5 stars (big smile)

If you do post it, please tap me on the shoulder to let me know. Thank you again.

There is a time and place to break rules and you can break them when you understand them. A bit more of a crop, would hold the focal area larger for the the viewer and engage us more. "Suum cuique pulchrum est" - to each his own.

Ouch. Hot is right and we feel it straight off. I think your bokeh is just perfect to infuse more story into the shot. However, that hot hot hot white heat going to the edge of the margin takes our eyes right out of your image rather quickly. I do feel had you given more marginal space and kept the flame in the frame it may have been a more effective presentation. Still the emotion of this shot makes me squirm....and that is a good thing.

It is the colour palette of this image that draws me, and the focal point is clear and sharp. Love that you put the hammer on an angle, gives the photo more dynamic oooomph. Good colour saturation , nice marginal space and a great shot for this contest.

I really like the humour of this photograph. It is well taken and clear with good contrast and marginal space showing. It may be a more effective presentation if you nipped off , just a bit, on our left side. Very lovely entry to study. Thank.

OOOOOOOPS sorry sorry.....I just found it. THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU.

Sorry but I am new. Where do I find your SBS?

That is a kind suggestion and thank you very much for taking the time to correspond. I never would have thought of that.

I spent all day yesterday at the gasoline pump, and came up empty. You certainly stimulate my gray matter with this upload. I'm giving you a perfect 100% for creativity, preciseness, WOW factor and to thank you for prodding me on.....This is truly sensational work and please excuse my gushing....but I gush when art touches me.

By the way, I spent all day yesterday trying to do something with this gasoline pump....nada, nuttin, empty. Sigh.

six star equals 100% by the way.

I have been marveling at this upload. I have checked out your sources and your work is impeccable, I am so enamored with your creativity and just wanted you to know that and to give you a six star rating!

Happy and wise, what a great combination!

Ahhh I love butter too, it's always better with butter. You have tried to capture a macro shot and I am looking for the sweet spot (focus) on the image. The focus seems to be on the bread on our lower left aspect of the image and overall I feel a sharper focus on the butter and knife would have worked better, after all that is the main point of the photo. Your colours are natural, not overcooked and pleasant to look at and the crop, that tight crop adds to the strength of the photo.

I like it better, don't you?

I really like the ingenuity behind this posting. It is well thought out and you have sharpness as well as blur showing movement. It is raining buttons...s l o w l y .... not quite downpour but a shower nonetheless.
Colour affects us carbon based bipeds and the blue signifies a cool shower maybe even intermingled with snow (big smile). There is a significant shadow behind hand on our L side and I have a feeling that a more cohesive and seamless black background would have strengthened this image. I do like it a lot and it made me smile.

Vibrancy galore! What a happy upload, those colours make us smile. Personally I would have loved to see this on a darker background just to make the focal point really pop...with this orange background there is a visual struggle happening. A bit of a tighter crop and placing this into portrait format (taller rather than wider) would benefit this even more and don't forget that our eyes read along the longest line of the rectangle so we would read from down to up and that would further enhance your focal point. Colourful, bright and happy.

What an absolutely sweet catch! It takes a photographer to see the beauty in this and shoot it. I like it for it has a story...I can hear a little girl asking dad to put these on. I love the pink colours they catch the eye against the indigo blue. I would not have minded to see the entire mail box instead of having head amputated off, but this is artistic license , so I bow to yours. I do think that the buttons are a tad soft and you could have used a better dof or even a tripod. This sure caught my eye and isn't that what photography is all about.

This very clever upload reminds me that maybe we could have a contest called IDIOMS for here the first thing that popped into my mind was "button up your lips". I love your thought processes that went into constructing this shot. A well taken photo however I am somewhat bothered by the red smudges particularly on the R side (viewer's side) and her upper lip...but sometimes lipstick DOES smudge. Thank you for inspiring us with this post. I'm going to write to the mods and ask for an IDIOMS contest....

I like this post for the tilt effect of your lens...with the sweet spot being in the center on the horizon. Your creativity shines with this upload...monochrome and then that pop of red button making a strong stand in that all important grid line. Personally, I would have loved to see all in sharp focus however I do like your artistic license as well.

We often speak of photographs taken or photographs made. I don't know if you made this or not but you certainly had the wherewithall to shoot it and you did a great job. It sparkles and engages us not only with colour but vibrancy. Really a lovely post and a joy to review.

This is most artistic, meaning it touches the viewer on a deeper level than just a snapshot. We can see you made this photograph, not just took it. The colour palette is magnificent. The beiges of the hand, the buttons and soft pops of beige in the tablecloth really accentuate the whole image. Furthermore, the photo is sharp, very nicely contrasted, well exposed, easy to "digest". I like the soft touch of gradient tool around the edges (or did you vignette) it sexily and subtley hold our eyes in your presentation and we stay and enjoy the journey. Very lovely upload...a potential winner, dare I say!

Wish you lived next door.

Thank you for your response. I enjoy learning from you very much.

Thank you for your response. I never thought of using the perspective tool, I would have sweated and sweated and given up. See , you have taught me .....remember that I am a techno moron but I AM TRYING to overcome this handicap thanks to artists like you!

It is the tonal mapping of this photograph that caught my eye. Your tonal ranges rock and cause this to pop especially with that grungy feel of burnt out car. Good marginal space although a tad more at the right would not have hurt. Every good photograph needs to have a great story and we wonder what happened to this poor 'girl' and why was she abandoned in a dry river bed . A strong image a potential winner.

This was not an easy photograph to take exposure wise. Let me guess taken in the afternoon? (about 2:30). Those shadows and hot spots are present and the hot spots burn. However, the story of the image is interesting and does this not have to do with Vincent Van Gogh? I like the placement of the car to the side and the colour saturation is pure.

It is the symmetry of this upload that draws the eye. The elements within are organized in a balanced manner with hood logo being one solid anchor point for our visual journey. Our eyes delight with colour and your colour palette of blue and yellow (opposites on the colour wheel) add not only visual strength but the yellow adds excitement for colour does that to us carbon based bipeds. I do have a suggestion for you to try. Have you considered a perfect square crop? The reason I say this is because if you have a circular focal point and place it into a square it becomes quite dynamic for the natural pathway of the eye within a square format is to go around and around and bounce off the equidistant lengths of each side...therefore our eyes do not leave the photo as quickly. This is a well seen and well taken image.

Yes to this one also. Love the grunge rusty effect..... it shows the texture well. Your tight composition and crop add strength to the shot and draws the viewer in and we engage with the image on many levels.

I really like the dof manipulation of this image. Your focus is sharp on the focal point which is not overcooked but natural and unpretentious. Having that diffused bokeh adds mystery to the image. Your contrast is well rendered, exposure also. You also have placed the star of the show into that all important grid point. Nice one. I like it.

OH MY GOONESS (that is an intentional spelling error ). This is truly amazing work. It catches my attention, makes me laugh , is realistically rendered and has a lot of eye glue. FANTASTIC WORK and you have inspired me ....I'm new and all this is really mind boggling.

OH my goodness....I can't believe the incredible creativity on this site. This post blew me away and THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU for posting how you did this. I am relatively new to this, and you have inspired me to try something too. Your post is realistic, the merging is really well done. Can I ask how long it took you to do this one?

Good grief...I love your work. Do you ever run out of ideas.

Oh my goodness gracious, this one goes out of the ballpark. Your creativity rocks and now , all thanks to your post, you are inspiring me. The colour palette is stunning and catches our eyes immediately. The diagonal placement brilliant. Thank you so much for posting this. I do wish you had put up the steps you used to create this....us peons (speaking of myself) would learn from your talent. Thank you again.

E cigarettes are new to me (I live in Thailand and they are banned here), so I have to say thank you for enlightening me. Your upload caught my eye because it is very crisp and the elements within are nicely placed and pleasing to the eye. The technical aspects are well rendered with clarity. I do feel that the nip on the right side unbalances your image somewhat but that is truly a very minor moan.

Thank you author ...appreciate your response back to me.

Why is it that we can see your name and this is in a contest? I thought we couldn't see names in order to keep the game clean?