very sad

OMG I am going to cry!

nice shot...gl

Very nice. I really like the juxtaposition of both the white and the black, and the life vs death. I wish there was just a little more at the top so the feather wasn't cut off, but Good job!

(ya know, I just noticed... if you rotated this 90 degrees clockwise, those oil dribbles almost look like human figures holding it up!)

I was wondering if anyone would notice,..check out the face!

Awesome shot!

Wow...incredible how you captured that. Great photo!!!!

found the face author....it compliments the grim subject....wonder how the shot would look in high contrast b&w...

just a feather in one hand, camera in the other, oil and natural light, no effects!

Tried that 'agthakurtas',...looks reeeeaaly sinister!

I love this

I think Kyricom made a great suggestion. You should rotate it to the right 90. it does look like little oil people. GL!

I think it was an observation rather than a suggestion from Kyricom, but i tried it,.. and it just lost something as a whole! thanks anyways J.

remarkable shot! seen from this viewpoint, disaster can be fascinating.

great take on the theme. GL

Creepy

Most original entry..well done!

Beautiful...so creative!

I somehow knew it was you , Great shot !

Classic...

Yes it is a classic but I've tried to get this shot back when I started photography and I couldn't do it so I thought I'd try again last night and I thought this was pretty

Lovely

Love it!

I like it, but unfortunately I have seen this photograph too many times .

Gets a little bit boring and repetitive. In my opinion, we need some more originality.

Sorry author.

GL!

It may be repetitive but I think it's far from boring bartoszwozniak. Just because we see something repeatedly doesn't mean that it's bad, did you think this was boring the first time you saw it? I've seen this before too but I've also seen 10,000,000 shots of refracted water droplets, and countless sunsets over the ocean but if it's done well than it doesn't matter how many I've seen before it. Yes originality is nice, and needed but can you honestly say you've never seen a photo you liked and reproduced it later? That's all the author has done here, and they did it well in my opinion.

I agree with everything you said Adam, EXCEPT... WATER DROPLETS!!!!!!! AAARRRGGGGHHHH. Anytime there is a theme where flowers are on-topic, water droplets should be BANNED. Violators should be forced to walk barefoot through honey ending up in African Army Ant hills!!!! After the soles of their feet have been eaten off by the ants, they should be dragged by pygmy hippos into a giant vat of red wine vinegar, with hyperactive 4th graders throwing wet kittens at them the whole way. Then, AND ONLY THEN, would they be eligible to show another photo of a water droplet - AFTER ten years probation!

You feel better now Kyricom? LOL
TY Locks. I know this isn't an original but I was pretty proud I was able to do it this time.

Beautiful..perfect shot!

Really well done but unoriginal. Well, who cares? The photograph's still amazing and lighting is right on. I can never get enough of these anyways. GL

I don't think there's much left that hasn't been done before - so I guess that makes us all a little boring and repetitive. Oscar Wilde said that Life imitates art. Considering history repeats itself - we are likely to come across a few sunset pictures ... and God forbid, water droplets

I certainly agree with what you and Oscar have said... except for.... WATER DROPLETS!!!! AAAARRRRGGGGHHHHHH!!!!! Shots of water droplets on flowers should be banned by the Geneva Conventions! Violators should be marched through the streets to be pelted by crowds throwing cream pies! After their parade, they should be staked out on the floor of Death Valley in August, force fed rabid Gerbils and made to watch a continuous loop of "Plan 9 from Outer Space!" After they die, their families should be forced to have a large sign in their yard for perpetuity declaring that their loved ones' fate was due to "repetitive overuse of trite stereotypes!"

I'm seeing a contest theme coming to mind... LMAO!!!

Wow, Perfect. very creative

My goodness! All this talk about originality and done before and such. *I've* never seen this shot before, so if its any consolation, if I see this shot again, yours is the original and all others will have been "done before".