Many thanks to all who made an effort to comment. I believe it was TooCool that challenged everyone :) Kudos to all of you and congrats to all the ribbons :)
Congrats to all the winners. I feel a bit beat up over this last challenge. I took a photo a San Francisco made of legos and though the photo doesn't really pop, it has a certain reality to it if you don't look too close. I think many people didn't realize the lego connection and scored me down, but mabey not. So I pose the question now. Did you get the lego connection? If no, would have the knowledge effected your scoring?
Congrats to all the winners. I feel a bit beat up over this last challenge. I took a photo a San Francisco made of legos and though the photo doesn't really pop, it has a certain reality to it if you don't look too close. I think many people didn't realize the lego connection and scored me down, but mabey not. So I pose the question now. Did you get the lego connection? If no, would have the knowledge effected your scoring?
I got the Lego illusion as I used to live in SF and work right around this area in the financial district. This interpretation of this street is not real :) Great job though.
bvoi, I was one of the people who didn't get it, I have never been to San Francisco, would never imagine they had a Legoland there. Didn't vote the image down though because it's good.
I was also surprised to find a third of the commenters on my entry saying it didn't meet the challenge because it wasn't an illusion! The leaning columns of Roman architecture must be the "oldest" optical illusion around LOL. Maybe the fact that most entries concentrated on optical tricks had something to do with people's expectations of the challenge, and not some simple obvious interpretation..
Congratulations to everyone who took part and especially the winners. I came 81st, but I wasn't really too surprised. A lot of people didn't get the illusion. For those who were really curious the illusion was a melting face. I did it with glow-in-the-dark paint. I had heaps of fun shooting it with my daughter. Haven't giggled so much before!Here is the original.
i'll aggree the image needes something -
i really wanted to do the whole fauset & sink
but with water spraying everwhere & a cloth wraped around the fauset being held up by my wife (she held the glass also)- she was nearly hugging the sink --
i couldn't quite justify buying a new fauset - the neighbour who hadd lent me the sink & fauset - had replaced it because the fauset was junk (saving the sink to take up to the cottage) ...
real pity is i had thrown out a sink & functioning fauset & even attached to an ugly counter top just a few months earlier - after remodling our kitchen ...
woo-hooo.... 3rd challenge entry and a top 20 finish... I'm sooo pleased. Thanks for all the votes and all of the comments. Next time, going for a ribbon!!!
I'm very, very pleased with the finish and, as with every challenge I enter, I'm learning more and more as I go. Thanks to you all for the great feedback and support!
I really didn't think that this picture would well. I think that 52nd was too kind, thanks anyway! My son had a ball reading all of the comments you guys left! He just laughed and laughed!
