Amazing pic...Extracting history out of the wall!
One of the best I've seen!!!

Like a fine vintage wine...old and of a particularly high quality. so lovely!

Beautiful... I love that decayed look.

ouai .. c'est du tout bon

Wonderful textures and details, very sharp !

I love these deep eyes, I love the posture and expression of face, I also love the processing you have used here (looks like a high key one ?...)
Zero default for me, excellent ;-)

Great work - this what a really contemprary portrait should look like

Very nice portraiture. Good map and contraste

ahhaah
good map
come-on
le lichage de cul va bien
le flou de la bouche vraiment archi faux j'aime pas
peu etre qu'il n'est pas faux.. mais bon j'aime pas le rendu de ton objectif

very nice, the only change would be the background which is very active and distracts from the subject.

i agree...background is a little distracting

Thank you for all the comments and critiques, and for my first Feature. :-D I was pleasantly surprised at how this one turned out. I took bunches of shots with different lightings and backgrounds. It's a clear glass bowl with clear clean water. The colour of this photos is not altered or enhanced. The sparkles are natural as well, air bubbles on the sides of the bowl. :-)

I love it! Perfect :-)

I gree, stunnig. Worthy of using for something like an advertisement of CD. Very nice. Great clarity.

Hey guys, thanks for all your comments. I knew this image would present a difference in opinions. Although I feel that without the photoshoping it would not give it it's unique personality. With this image I wanted to present something new to the table. A mix between photography and illustration, while staying within the guidelines of the topic which is Blue. I know using Photoshop with photography sometimes presents arguments between if it is still true photography if it is photoshoped. But personally i feel that even if a photo is photoshoped it is still a true photo. I view Photoshop as a tool that helps enhance photography. Before we used the darkroom to give our photos a unique feel or bring something different to the table. Now, I feel Photoshop is our new darkroom for photography. It gives us a chance to bring something new to the table and something unique to our audience. Thanks once again for all your comments. Take Care all.

I love lots of photoshop but i woud like to see the eye more. i can only see half of the blue in it and it looks like a reflection to me. i would like to see the blue in the eye stand out more.

i love close-up shots so would be thrilled to see the original. did you have to crop for this?

I agree that Photoshop is useful and a very appropriate tool for enhancing images. However, the effect in this photo goes a bit too far. I would have liked to see more clarity in the image... but it does have great composition.

There some nice things and some bad things...
Great work on colors and contrasts on the foreground...
But cheap photoshop effect on the background...

cool photo - like the colour treatment!

It's hard for me to say for sure whether or not the top quadrant is too light since my monitor isn't calibrated at all. I can tell you that I'd love to see a print of this, and really flesh out the balance between suggestive and obscurity. My gut feeling is that you're right on the money. I love the contrast and sharpness of the bottom against the vagueness of the top. It divides the frame nicely and I think the reaching arm, and hints of the rooms edges and boundaries is enough to ground her in reality. I love this photo.

If you want another advice: I don't mind the white space, it's part of the composition and it is well balance, making the character look more fragile; it's also part of the color treament, enhancinging the coldness of the scene. The only thing I would change (maybe) is her beanie :o)

I like this pic, don`t know why, but I like it!

this pic is finished in 24x36!!!it's juste amazing

What a beautiful colors, it is really magnificent.

ho yess

nice I love the colors.

Lovely colors indeed! That's a shiny fiddle!

Wow I love the deep colour and mood here. Nice use of candlelight... The violin looks chocolate!

Nice portrait, but it needs some background, or maybe try sepia. I do like the clear focus and seems like the subject does not feel like he is being photographed.

yess where is the background?

Sweet Job! like the DOF.. I kinda like it black for the Background. =)

I like the background as this.

it needs no background, the black is perfect. i prefer most of my closeups with a black background actually, though its hard to get if you arent using a model. nice work.

Good idea to come with B&W. The tree is not so distructing then.

I like the tree. Apples grow on trees, don't they?
:-)

ultre powerfull sing !!! domination!!

This is just wow. Is there any word better than wow? I do not know it in English. Amazing shot and I think the black and white works fine.

Perfect, can't find a way to make it better.

Already the small version made me very curious. In big, it looks great ... just very abstract. Great job, I am sure, I will see this as featured.

Fine abstrature, impressive atmosphere! Excellent!
(Some fields are a little bit "streaky", I think from the processing or compression? Sorry for my English.)

to must abstract for my ! and computer generated?

almost does look computer generated. probably not though, just good skills.

Man,what some people will do to get that shot!
I can see this as a feature Arne.

working in resto is very dangerous!

oh awsome!

super flame!

wow, very dramatic :)Great capture...