Whew, good to know.

Is someone hitting him with that plank from behind?

I think these guys would lick you to death! You have two photos in one with this shot.

mmm nice and with that little hut at the bottom right makes it a photo you can't let go of easily.

Congrats

CONGRATS ON THIS WIN !

Me too! ha ha ha ha....now I look like a hundred bucks...green, old, wrinkled!

Oh you flower child you?!

Good controlled exposure on this, it would have been easy to blow out, but you didn't!

Hey, that IS a great idea....thanks!

congrats for 1 and 3

Oh sigh....why? Such violence, I don't understand and on a Lincoln.

Congrats.

Looked like a combo of two photos.

Is this a composite?

Appreciate the information, thank you.

Nice.

congrats

En plein! Congrats!!!

Yeah...wow....Congrats on one two and three.

CONGRATS!

beautiful shot

Good one.

Ahhh I thought this was yours. YOu are quite masterful at catching peak moments and freezing them well with your sports shots. Nice one this one.

I like the colour palette of this photo, it is eye-catching.

Different for a sports shot.

Top notch. Love the sharpness of this image and the excitement caught. Good eyes.

Love the speed that the viewer can feel with this photo. Good shutter speed and action well frozen for the most part. An engaging photo.

Beautiful !

Well done for winning

Awwww that is a cop out

Thanks you 2 for all this, as it is the most interresting conversation I've read here for a long time, and congrats for your wins

congrats on 1st

Why...because it shows appreciation on my part for your critique and positive insights, that's why....no?

Congrats on 1st, well deserved

Congrats.

Like the shadow light play...congrats. (and the patterns)

Congrats on this one

Why not?

Dang......I meant to give you 5 thumbs up and forgot. I will do this on another of your photos OK?!

Yes, I understand however the reason why my brain doesn't calibrate the image is quite basic. There is within this photo a visual weight imbalance, meaning everything is to the right (patterns and all) and it is outside of the frame making me think it will tip right out and all those patterns on the edge just take my eye right out of the photo.

In our photography courses, our prof once told us to worry when NOBODY mentions a thing about your picture. So, your photo generated thought and discussion and I thank you for that, I just wish this kind of exchange would happen more often on this site.

I appreciate you telling me that ....although I do not agree it has made me think! (a good thing for a change).

I like the focus, nice ...

Top notch. Lovely

I thought so, but why? What was your reason for doing so?

LORD stop the beating of my heart! I have to try this when I get home. I would have liked to see more but you cropped it off

I want to DIVE right into this...errr, these. Blueberry melons, the newest Japanese invention....Love THIS.

Lovely, and they say you only retain 10 percent! I like the clarity and the background to this "pile". I'm writing to you from Vietnam and today we had a coffee with a 77 year old vet who fought in the "American War" (you call it the Vietnamese War). What a sad life he has had and 15 days ago he lost his 52 year old son to a traffic accident.

You don't have any books by Plato up in your pile, but as Plato said (or it could have been Socrates) ...."remember whomever you meet that they are fighting a private war!" (or something like that).

I know I know this isn't much of a photography critique but I just felt like writing this because of your photo!

Well good close-up

colourfull and like the way this is presented and discarded