thanks for the comments!

ooooh, beautiful! Lovely colours aswell

thanks Kim!

great movement and shot.

thank you Kati~

so good DOF, I love it. Take a look to that lost look on the model, works perfectly with the sensation of atention to something.
Great photo.

I agree with the comments above. I also note that your model appears to be old for her years, with a sophistication that is very appealing. Your treatment of her, especially your choice to use B&W, emphasizes this. Nicely done.

beautiful, genuine and innocent. I love it.

Great capture, lovely photograph and lovely little girl. I'd not change a thing. :-)

This really works, lovely.

lovely - where was this taken?

This is Eze a small village near Nice, France. It was a very rainy day, but it kind of adds to the mood.

very lovely ..this is so well done ..!

Wonderful.
I think the fact that it was rainy added to the saturation and thus the reason the colors are so strong.

Congrats on the feature, well deserved!!

so so great effect, congratulations

such a simple excellent shot! Great composition - I would only say that the wispers of blue smoke at the top right would have been more effective if they were a bit stronger :-)

thx a lot your comments :)
info. to do it you'll need a strong light, smoke..., a lot of time !
color is added in lightroom, this is the only postwork, no crop , etc...

great detail and flow to this, and as been said before would probably cropped little lower at top

wow cool idea and very abstract. colorized smoke looks amazing! great shot!

It's wonderful photo. I love the contrast me too and expression. Great job !

Fine picture, good work!
(in my eyes the clock disturbs a little bit)

thanks guys.

Congrats on feature, very nice image.

Very nice, excellent work. You really feel the personality.

Wow, its great. How did you take this?

It was a nest in a bush, shot with a 100mm macro lens.

wow.. this is really nice, i love how everything is monochrome other than the beaks.

This one is nice! Looks like a shot from early 1900's. Good work.

this is nice .. a lil blur and little more close to engine would made this picture stand out .. just my two cents.

Nice strong image...smoke colours give good contrast and men on front and top of train add drama

nice work... love the contrast:)

I soooo like this picture. I had a train obsession when I was about 10 years old. Pictures like this bring it back.

Tammy,did you notice the swirl on the marble(?)
is like the swirl on the snail.
What an amazing composition here!

Hi mysight, no I hadn't noticed! Cool Beans. :-D Thanks.

Thank you everyone for all your comments and critiques.

Hi Paulforrester...Yes it's set up. I had fun taking this photo. Got the snails from my garden, gave them a little rinse, used a small 6 inch high pedestal and for the background it just a white tea tray turned on it's side. Natural diffused light coming in through the conservatory.

Hi ikol22, do you still have your Canon AE1? Oh and I'm learning all the time! Thanks for your comments.

Awesome job! Very creative and nice idea. Great job! Nice shadow too.

Wow this photo is really impressive. Did you have to coach the snail? It's amazing. The only criticism I have is that the tip of the antennae crosses the shadow in a slightly distracting way. Very well done!

a star is born...

Beautiful shot. Also suitable for the 'fill the frame' topic.

Thanks for the kind words

Great picture, love the colour.

I like this shot. The dark background really works for me. The image does seem to a be a little soft though. If you haven't already you might want to consider sharpening it before making any prints from the digital image.

Seems a little soft to me, needs sharpening as Marcus said! Love the colours, very vibrant!

Lovely exposure. I love the light in the tunnel. I think perhaps a square crop off the top to get rid of some of the black area would help this.

You know I like this pic. I wouldn't crop the top it would it ruin the ratio's, he needs to be a small shuffling figure.

I to like this photo, but I agree with elp when suggesting to crop the top of it. It will add more focus to your subject. Nice job though! =)

Beautiful. I love the contrast, it really pulls you into the scene. I like it as is, uncropped.

Beautiful photo. Perhaps too centered the main subject, but nice anyway.