Hello Misu, it is the foot of your newborn child ?

Hi Eric,
Ofcourse! Mileage 0 km. =)

So, my congratulations to you, and especially to the mom Bravo ;)

Thanks, Eric!

very great comp, nice color
congrats

Great place for shootin'. It is botanical garden?
Try, some day, make this photo a little bit contrast in PS (level (poin of white & black)), also You can make it more saturationed!

This was taken at the Huntington Library Cactus Gardens in San Marion, CA.

This is a beauty. Looks like something from The Prisoner or something.

The backlighting gives a great glow to the cacti

Looks like a couple of aliens getting together for a speech by their leader... Great stuff.

@Ambrosia: Thanks, I think I agree. This was shot digital and converted to B&W using Nik Software's Silver Efex Pro. Those plugin's do a really great job. I also have a roll of FP4+ I shot the same evening that I have not processed yet. I am anxious to see what the film looks like!!

@All: This is a good example of what you gain from 16bit raw conversions. The smoothness of the grad in the sky from left to right and the subtle difference of the tones in the light shafts would not be possible in an 8 bit workflow. I know the file size is huge, but well worth it, imo. I do all my raw conversions to 16 bit and I scan with my Nikon coolscan in 14 bit which gets output at 16 bit. I am in the process of adding more RAM to my pc and upgrading to 64bit Vista to deal with the heavier filesizes created from the new scanner and now the new Nikon d90 I just bought.

Very nice. Makes my eyes zig-zag back & forth down to the bottom.

Multy-layred mountains. Well deserved feature!

All those shades of grey...
I like that the bottom right is quite 'real', whereas the top left is dreamy, fairy tale like, with a gradual transition between them.

Looks like the south side of Jumbo Rocks. The quartz monzonite had bearing veins of quartz but the pickings were scarce.
I know it's all in the time of day, but I'd love to explore the angles and curves of the place since the metal contrasts with the rock so well.

@John, this is just a bit north of Barker Dam about a mile hike from that parking lot. I didn't have much time to stay, we decided to walk out there on the spur of the moment and it was looking a lot like rain, so we didn't tarry... I plan on going back again with better light and more time.

Sheer pleasure seeing this shot. Great BW tones. Nice composition.

Looks like an intriguing place. Nicely composed shot, and the only thing I would add is that the horizon seems a little high on the right and maybe crop it in a bit on the left, thats being fussy though...Great work.

Abandoned mine, isn't it?
I think you a bit overcontrsat this photo. Lights are to light and shadows are to dark. But nice place for great photos and this once as sugject, composition and so on very great!

Wow. Single superb streak!

Touch of the Lord!
A bit overexposed in the area of the sun in clouds. In sych case I use HDR (-2;0;2) to show all details in lights and shadows and to save all colors!

Great panorama.
Beautiful place for a nice photos!
Well done my friend!

Nice composition with good texture and color.

I agree with Beamer. Beautiful piece of art.

Terrific work. The colors and form go so well together; and it has that Asian flair which I love so much. Simple but beautiful. If I were creating this image for print, I would lose the border and, of course, your watermark/name. Otherwise the image is perfect. Nice job!

Good work!

I agree with the others. Maybe if you would transcribe your name into Japanese characters (Katakana)? That way you would have both the effect of Asian text and your name in the picture.
You could www.takase.com/Library/Glossary.htm#KATAKANA for this.
Lovely picture.

Great shot. I like the fading passers-by as much as the double phone boots. Great effect of the partial saturation.

One of the rare occasions where I like selective saturation - but I think it would have been better if you had pulled back a little on the red. It's a bit too bright red imo. But all in all it's a good picture...

Thank you Huubi and Stefan
/Jan :-)

It's a pity those are being removed.

I really like the selective saturation. Normally I don't care for it, but it appears more natural in this image. Great exposure.

stunning! wicked! amazing!

Good idea and nice job. Instafav.

Great Work, reminds me Chema Madoz

Love this

What an awesome shot.

2 Beamer:
OK, I'll try to do all my best.
But only if You'll do, also. And remeber, I'm whatchin' You... ;)))

interesting conversation...
about the shot :
the light and comp is interesting
but i don't like the lips in the models hands it is imo vulgar

O.k. this is a bit off-topic, but I want to say something about misu's 'bat english'. Maybe that's also a reason his comments are a bit brusque, in any case more brusque then ment to be.
Don't forget english is a second laguage for misu (also in my case) and sometimes we're just simply missing some nuances. Or we translate words and expressions to the letter, but the meaning in our own language is less brusque then it is for native english speakers. And to make it more difficult for us: the use of photographer's slang.

Now, some criticism for misu :)
Just like photoaholic said it is not my cup of tea. The 'mouth' makes it a bit vulgar indeed. If, for exemple, her legs were crossed instead of the use of the 'mouth' it would be a nice picture. Shame it's a bit noisy but I love the light, especially on her haires.

Thanks TAMARA ;) Yeah, english for me rather to say third language than second. But I do my best to write exact what I think and feel about photo I comment.

So, as I sea NUDE is almost for all not there cup of tea. Photo noisy because it was made on B&W film not on digital camera + jpeg reduction :(

VERY nice.

It's hot, funny, yet serious at the same time.