This is a real New Year's resolution for me. I don't drink nearly enough water on an every day basis.
For this shot I used my old underwater Canon D10 that I got a few years back. I didn't even want to chance dropping my big Sony into the water. :)
I spent about an hour with my face half under the water - both eyes open - which was a terrible idea. When I finished I had one normal eye and one very blood shot, irritated eye. I thought a night's sleep would do the trick and repair it, but to my dismay I woke up the next morning and it looked even worse! I walked around all the next day with one normal eye and one awful eye, haha! I felt so ridiculous.
Thanks for all the comments and votes! Glad to know my eye didn't suffer for nothing. ;)
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You may or may not be aware that this is one of the photos being used in the online "publications" referenced here: DPC forum thread on LBNelert I noticed it when I was searching for my own. There were so many from DPC that I could not document them all - if you want to have it removed, see posts from LydiaToo and Mike_311 on p. 5 of the forum thread. To locate it more easily, check both blogs and the main newsletter, starting with the dates when this challenge was in voting or shortly thereafter.
Wow, great shot considering what you or at least our eye went through. Hope this blue was worth it!! I thought you had just put your face behind a sheet of slightly warped glass and then laid the image on its side. Never guessed that you did use water!!
Another stunning shot. Well imagined and executed as we have come to rely on from you. Congrats on the ribbon. At the end of the hour and a half you should have switched sides and take one of the lovely blood shot eye looming above the water line.
This is just tremendous. There's no doubting your photographic skills, but we shouldn't underestimate your modelling skills either. I book professional models all the time and I have to say I'd book you in a heartbeat. It is exactly this sort of commitment to an image that makes all the difference.
With both these sets of skills, matched with standout post-processing ability and a great conceptual imagination, it's no wonder you grace the front page so often.
I'd be pleased to get this shot of a model, to pull it off as a self is boggling. Well done.
(I think the eye is not at all overdone - it anchors and is key to the image)
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