Simple and efficient. I like this a lot.

thanks philippe!

nice find and capture

Great take on the subject - I even recognize it! I do however think the cylinder on the left is a bit too dominant and possibly cropping half of it off would work better. The detail is very nice.

I like this shot - I like the lighting and the colour - but the object on the left is too big and I just don't recognise this as a door or even part of a door. But I do think it a beautiful study of something mechanical.

Thanks for the comments - this is a macro of the mechanism that holds open your screen door (mine is at the bottom). I'll look into your crop suggestion, Sher. Thanks!

Nice focus and detail on the mechanism. Ditto on trying the crop. Nice job:)

Nice reflection shot!
Simple with great color. I like how the dogs reflection rest on the curve of the spoon.
I really like it. :)

Thanks Blizzard! and thanks to those who made this a feature.

Nynke, I just got caught up in the reflections - fun and fascinating.

Thanks tony! I have just discovered that 2 of my 3 features were taken in the same session - must have been a good day :-)

Kinda reminds me of Forrest Whitaker in "Ghost Dog". Nice shot.

Vernon, we are still waiting for the tutorial!

lighting and processing is phenomenal.

Really wonderfully done...........love the tonal and lighting effect.

the making of is posted on my textblog.
check it out :-)

www.xoverip.info/archives/30

cheers
v.t.

I feel that there's way to much... anguish - in this picture - to be a simple straight-on portrait. If it's truly a portrait in my opinion, to capture the grit, anguish, suffering (no matter what the story is here), a whole different perspective is needed (closer to the subject, off-center, other angle - something). The graffiti behind adds to the grit or inherent disturbing aspect of the image - but the presentation really takes away from it all. It's not only disturbing in subject matter, but disturbing that I don't like the framing. Above all - looks like a color photo changed to gray scale - so little contrast. Far too close to being just a grayish rectangle. Has potential, but something this important should be presented in an important way, I feel.

Yes it is posed, but look who is posing. She is a crack adict, who is selling her body on the streets of NYC. she was happy to pose for the camera, and in her degraded state of being, for a few moments she became a supermodel.........
This was shot with black and white film a few years ago an drecently scanned into digital.
I did an entire series on her and posted it on my blog at www.humangraffiti.com

Am I alone remembering Jay (from Clerks)?

I commented on the other submission of this same subject and said that I noticed what looked like a cesarean scar, but looking at this one I'm wondering if it was a sex change scar. She looks like she was a he, very masculine features.

This is not an easy image. When I first saw it I thought it was a young basketball player whose shorts had been pulled down by his team mates as a prank. It was only when I paid more attention, I noticed the tights, skirt and heels. It is sad and disturbing, but, for me, also powerful as it shows a side of life most of us never have to deal with.

I like the minimalism of this. Nice DOF, too.

Very very very plain and basic. More boring than entertaining. I dont think you could do much to improve it, the subject is simply boring. Maybe try more creative angles.

@guffy...if you can't come up with anything more constructive than this, please don't say it. That you find my photo plain, basic and boring is not helpful to me. Thanks for commenting.

Niiice.

Blame the model - he has talent! and good taste in shirts :-)

priceless expression! ;-)

very sexy lighting and i love that smile/laugh that you're doing...lol

First thought: Kevin Federline. It must be the hat. I really like the lighting and the processing.

Great expression, but I like to see a hint of the eyes.

great smile, fun hat. its just wonderful

Robert Indiana! Where did you get it? Great shot, btw. Love the colours.

I got it years ago so I'm not quite sure anymore, but I think I got it from the London Science Museum. It's quite small, only about 9cm high.
B&W version here, but I like the colour better myself.

very sad indeed.

I really like the simplicity of this. The empty bench with a lot of distance behind it, bordered by the heavy vegetation. A pity that the goal posts? are just visible, but a great shot otherwise.