It's awesome. How's it done?

Wow, very creative! Very anxious to learn the trick :)

it's a 30 seconds exposure (f9 i think) with a model on the bike .. and a guy had a maglight and made the outline with it toward the camera. it's a very simple trick

This is totally cooool :)

This is soooo fun! Painting with light...love it.

beautiful....turtle neck pulled up over the mouth just revealing the eyes...very clever..!

Black border looks good to me. Ads a special feeling to the image. How come its not at the bottom?

@kevin: what do you meen by "very ralph gibson"?

@marcouet52: thx. these are my eyes ;)

@thoughduour: exactly like that :))

@chefron: at the bottom? what do you meen by this?

thank you all, I'm very happy about the feature :)
regards, calisto

Wow! Love it.

This just popped off the screen at me. So amazing! What beautiful eyes!

Nice one! Suits the topic in the original way. Reminds me of Chucky though...

a spent some time to figure out what's reflected in the lighter eye, still not sure. is it the contour of a tree and a roof?
this image is in my top3 of this topic.

This is an insane image Kevin. Well doen and congrats on the feature.

I wouldn't want to be left alone with this doll. Neat shot, though!

like this very, very much!!
she looks so real..

very beautiful!

hooo, so cuuute :)
Cool pic !

That's one amazingly BLUE bird! How does it hide in the woods! Beautiful!

What a stunning bird! What kind is it? Amazing shot - such clarity!

Wow, amazing sky o_O.

(I find the not horizontal horizon a little bit distracting.)

amazing, such a good postproduction work, I really like it a lot.
Nothing to critique here, maybe and only maybe, it's hangin at the rigth side of the photo but no more

Man,scary sky!
Did you twist the clouds a little?

@chromadreams: thanks. I believe that the horizon is not tilted (just a bigger hill on the left) but that what gives this impression is the non-horizontal crop of the windows on the buildings in the foreground. I shall see about setting it straight.

@mysight: nope, they were really funny looking and threatening like this. I just used HDR to enhance the contrast.

Wow! Love the image! The clouds look like rippling silk. I like the contrast between the apparently peaceful town and the dangerous-looking clouds.

This photo makes me look at it and wonder. What is happening in the background? And, what the guy in the wheel chair is thinking?

Almost as if the photo is telling two stories. Very nice!

To me...this photograph can be seen as though the man's ship is coming in, or he has missed the boat. I guess that all depends on one's point of view when looking at this wonderful piece of work.

Beautiful. Absolutely beautiful. :)

big story!!!

an outstanding photo, full of suggestion in its composition

just awesome

Wow, amazing o_O.
Maybe I would crop a little bit of the sky and work on the levels of the picture.

Seem to be saying,
"No Tipping Please!"

Well, I'm not really sure about this one. The mix between b&w and color, the composition with the blurry effect.
Original pictures look pretty good and I have to say I'll prefer so see each picture alone.
But as I say, it's all personal taste (I like having one focus point in pictures).

I think: successfull combination!

I think the effect would have been a bit starker if they had both been done in B&W.

It looks like it could have been a great shot without the second image.

Personally, I agree with Chino and mikeock about the color variation. I think one or the other would have been best. The thing that I really find distracting is the way the poor guy's head is chopped off with the waves above. Sorta makes him look like a bald cancer survivor.

Very good use of Photoshop. Photo has good depth

I respectfully disagree. I think this is a good photo that has been over-photoshopped. The blur seems too heavily applied IMHO. I didn't realize the boat was on sand at first, because the blur was masking this interesting aspect of the shot. A more subtle use of the tool would enhance the boat, it seems to me. I suppose it's a matter of style, but I like a more natural application of photoshop, something that I struggle with myself.

Same as aloha, a bit too much photoshop for me.

beautiful shot .. with alot of potential ..but I agree also ..some of the effects is masking the true beauty of this...

Very nice shot.
Over processed IMO with the blur.
Really is hard to see that it is beached with the blur so high.
Lots of potential, would love to see another rendition!

this is an old traincar kitchen... perhaps should have submitted it to backlight instead

I like it, good ambiance, but yeah, seems more backlight than train to me :).

thank you Chino... think I'll remove it from Trains