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.

This is a lovely image. The layered effect is really great. I'd love to see a larger version of this. As lbstone noted, the top right is blown out, which is my only nitpick. Otherwise a really terrific shot.

it's absolutely stunning.

Thanks!

I love the many different shades of gray. These are some beautiful layers with interesting lines.

Thanks for your comment Menno.

well Blumie
believe
me
if you had been there
you probably wouldn't had get outside and prefer your home to this cold gray, without clouds sky !!

filters.....
2 are used in this pix :-)
héhé

very nice! great job with the filters!

Nice view!

beautiful colours!!

nice colors

Glad to see this featured.
Excellent photo. :)

absolutely fantastic. love this.

Really good shot!

Fits the theme perfectly: i like your viewpoint and the colors.

Thank you!

this is so beautiful - incredible!

Like the light and tones here, gives a wonderful atmosphere in this kitchen.

I don't think that the displays are doing the duo, I think that the courtains are doing it, am I right?, never mind, all the way I find this photo so great, so natural scene of any home, maybe the light at the courtain's top is a bit strong but nothing important.
Truly I like this picture a lot.

Very nice. I thought I commented on this before, but I guess I didn't. I love this kind of stuff. The "Duo-ness" is probably not terribly obvious, but it's a great, simple photo nonetheless. Anthropologists of the future will probably enjoy images like this.

THis is a wonderful "slice-of-life" photo. I really enjoyed it.

The light in this photo is really great.

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.

With the narrative this works a lot better, however as a standalone shot I wouldn't necessary say it belongs to this topic.

thanks for all the comments.

actually I kind of like that it's upside down -- precisely because the inverted A looks like the Eiffel Tower. very clever.

thanks myla!

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

the bugs totally make this shot -- love it.

Wow, what a nice surprise. And, Myla, I agree. I was tickled to see them show up so well again the little flowers.

That's beautiful! But what is it?

it's absolutely stunning (whatever it is). ;)

Thanks for the comments guys. It's not as exciting once you know what it is, but it is a close up of a modern art' sculpture' in La Defense in Paris. See here. I'd love to go back and take more shots of it - I have another one I like but supposedly it is impressive at night too.

Nice image, I very much like the colors all lined up.

Fine view of this sculpture!

I like that. Is it a photo? I would love to know what you caught here. The blue fits perfect to the black.

yep this is a photo of a trail of smoke from an incense stick, the really funny thing is I had the camera on the wrong white balance setting and got the blue hue, but I ended up been happier with this image then the other 50 odd I took, dunno it reminds me of a woman or something.

Beautiful color and movement. I would crop it a bit, though. It would also fit perfectly in abstract.

wow .. this is totally beautiful, i love it. sorry cannot give you any constructive critic on this one.

fine!