I'll venture to guess that a number of people don't like the depth of field -- I do. I question a little bit, however, the choice of the focal plain -- I would have pushed it back a little toward the glasses themselves, and not on the earpiece. But that's a preference. The color seems not quite right -- I think this would make a great black and white, but the faint maroonish cast to everything doesn't seem appropriate to me.
This shot is excellent. The focus at the front leads you to the blurry-ish background and forces you to look back to the foreground. As a musician, it was obvious to me immediately that it was upside down, but I figure someone will question it.
Although I am a fan of 64th note arpeggios and trills. Its not grabbing with respect to the challenge subject. Technically its a great shot with good depth of feild, detail, and angle of shot. I have to give this more credit for the shot than the challenge.
note the nice macro shot. Is this violin or piano music? Its in good focus, thou I bet some people will have a hard time telling itts upside down. Although you do have the poco shoing that it is.
I can't believe you chose THAT piece for a background. There's no accounting for taste in music. Your taste in composing macro photos is pretty good though! you get an A#!