Thanx for your "settings".
Really a great shot.
And more with a 70-300 Sigma ! gasp ! :o ;)

Oh, pretty birdie!
Beautiful shot too.

superb !! great work (is he really looking at me ?? ;-))

wow awesome shot!

That is really an awesome capture...great work!!

So, I love it and I'm impress. Thanks for sharing.

Me he tomado casi un dia para volver a mirar esta fotografia, tras ello llego a la conclusion que me encanta. Considero un acierto la luz, el tono, el color y el angulo de toma. Es de las fotografias que a uno le hubiera gustado realizar. Enhorabuena. Saludos

Very nicely done. Perfect B&W.

I like the simplicity of this shot.

Definitely inspirational in the sense of conveying a relatively common item in a new way...makes me want to go grab my camera and my macro lens.

Well done! I guess if I had one point of criticism it would be to wonder how the shot would look without the drawn line. Maybe if the pen point had stopped at the end of a letter. Just a thought.

great shot.

There's so much energy in this shot. Great framing and colors.

The hair looks alive in this shot, Medusalike,

It can't be you, unless you've got a male pen name.

Very nice scene. It's like movie that has been pauzed and you want to see what is coming.

JeBeKe
digieyes.jebeke.org

i would love to see this flipped concept but with losing the bottom part of the image - ie., the wheels and above...

Creating a square crop without the bike but leaving the shadow would be a winner for me.

Thanks for your comments !
I'm looking forward to get the opportunity to take a new photo with a frame foncusing on the shadow only.

My two cents worth of comment would be to crop out the bottom as Ludimaginary suggests or even a bit lower to include approximately half of the wheels but not any of the backgound buildings. On my monitor I can get this effect by scrolling up as high as I can and using the bottom of my monitor as a means of testing the crop.

the lower half of the photo hurts my head v.v - i think this photo would be better without flippage

but you certainly draw more attention to the shadow this way

nice work

nice emotion capture..love it

it would be more great if erase sign of flash and move face more to the right

cute!

awsome picture.

This is a fantastic portrait with excellent use of dof and nice tones of grey.Lovely eyes let you see behind them a trully pure soul.

Thnks for passing by the photo is captured at sunset near Interlaken Switzerland

Thank your for your comments so far. If you like the picture you can vote for it to be included in the next Issue of JPG Magazine. www.jpgmag.com/photos/152995

with best wishes,

Thomas

They look like something from a dream!

this is something else...great light, amazing subjects great spacing......wow wow wow

stunning light! the use of the wide lens and the golden tones compliment the subject perfectly...

my first reaction was holy photoshop...but then upon closer inspection, the photo is just so amazing!

Heavenly...

great shot

Outstanding image...it must have been spectacular in person.

Thank you. It was more spectacular in person than the photo conveys, actually.

nice rays!

You should check out the work of JMW Turner. That's what this reminds me of. If this is the effect you were aiming for then well done. I might try it myself ;-)

I agree with Arne and Mark. I really like this kind of moody shot.

seems to be a painting

Every time I see this photograph, I love it more. It reminds me the painting of Nicolas de Staël.

This is beautiful Vernon- it has an ethereal quality something I would love to have on my wall in a large painted format.

Reminds me of post cards from the past.

This picture shows my beautiful hometown Salzburg, Austria

City of Salzburg

Wunderschön! Grüße aus Wien

This is really, really nice. I wouldn't have thought to try doing such a photo with selective saturation, but it turned out great!

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.