I like the palm in there, but might rotate a bit to the left, so your hand is flat?

Otherwise it's pretty dang cool.

i think it's a nice use of selective coloring. i agree with the comments about the palm, though.

I love the detail of the fingerprints and how the ring is in colour and the heart shadow. But i agree with above about the palm being a bit of a distraction. But overall i really like it.

I recognize this photo! I recently read an article in one of my many Photography magazines - showing how to do this image. Well done! I would crop out some of the foreground though to give the ring more prominence in the photo.

I would appreciate a reference on this magazine as I have seen the effect in a book before but thought that the hand effect was origional. Thanks

i love the colors, it sort of has an almost-grungy feel to it. I'd fix the horizon, though, if you're not planning to crop off the top portion.

The fence in the background is disturbing.
I don't like the color intensity, but that might just be me.

seems a bit too intense/bright, and I agree about taking that fencing out of the shot.

As Ana said, too intense process here. It give a natural subject a very un-natural feel.

taking the process even further may have helped take the viewer there and making no mistakes as to the effect you were going for as maybe not natural but really processed.

Eight shots.

respekt dass unser kleiner freund hier so geduldig war :D

cute little critter, he looks like he is about to ask you for a question! i like this

ps. i like the shallow depth of field

I appreciate the shot jus tfor how hard it must have been to make any of the head sharp considering how jittery this animal seems to be.

I presume it's a style you have to love or not, but it seems there was some movement and/or it's unfocused, I don't like that.
The look of the girl and the cropping is well choosen, imo.

I like the softness supported by the blur.

I love the eyes, hair, and expression. I wish the eyes were a bit sharper. The rest can be soft or blurry and it wouldn't matter. A slight tilt to the head may make the composition stronger. Nice image.

Very nice one. Not much to say here. I'm normally not a fan of borders but here might be a case for a small dark gray border. The top of the image blends totally with the Vazaar white and it seems to loose balance.

Would have been great to have some context even if it was in the form of a title or story such as a girl in a war torn country. my 2 cents.

Ha ha!! Another one from you walk on the bridge!! I would have waited just a bit to allow the sailboat to clear the cable a little more.

Hey this looks great! Only had the background had more detail and interest, this selective sturation would work better.

The coloration works very well, I only think the background's a little too busy, all them sailing boats.

If there would have been a very large sailboat inbetween the cables or some other interest would have helped or having very little background boats.

This looks like a wonder location and a great sky. I would have moved a little more to your left to try to clear the bush from the center of the water's path. My eye wants to see back there...

I agree that the lines lead me to the convergence behind the bush. Also you could have tried putting that convergence in one of the thirds of the shot.

This old Joshua Tree seems to reach out to touch the sun one more time before falling over. I will go back in the spring to see if he is still standing.

I like the idea. I also think that making the ground or the sky dominate the rest of the scene may help the shot out.

From "Book of Dreams" project

Can you provide more info on the project, looks interesting. This is a serious photo collage, nice job.

Thanks for the interest Clyde. The "Book of Dreams" project is a series of photographs I've taken over the years that are experiments or improvisations done mostly in the darkroom. Most of them are crude, graphic, and rather unsophisticated in technique, but I quite enjoy making them. This particular image is a solarized digital image of my legs and feet in a bathtub after a shower. Layers of texture added later. I like the way it looks like a film based photograph. I'm going to print it and put the print in my bathroom. Again, thanks for the interest and glad you like it.

Sweet, only imo the blue-ish water is shouting for my attention, that's really pity. Maybe you can reduce the blue color by pp. A b&w treatment will maybe also help.
To make the animals the main subject of the scene, I suggest some cropping from all sites, too. You certainly have to get rit off that strange thing in the lower left corner.

This would have been much better if you could have gotten the ducks away from the reflection and just in the blue water. They would pop much better that way.

Feels a little tilted. And a little flat in the tonal range.