Really great! The green is great. The composition is great as well as the dof. I definately appreciate the skill, time and effort to achieve this. Excellent capture of the flame (I need to start trying that). 1 small thing - maybe a few more "trees" - but no big deal. I really enjoy this photo. Great work. 9 Ruthann
All too common this year. I like how the flame is comming off the side of the pencil. Gives it a different look that way. focus and angle are good and the background being green gives it more of a "forest" feel. Nice job and good luck in the challenge.
Very creative! I love the colors in your photo, especially the brown/green combination. Depth of field very effective also. Nice abstract quality -- is that a flame in the photograph, or just intense sunlight or ?
very clever visual experience. you've done a great job of capturing the texture on the burning pencil. and i like the bg color. the vertical orientation works well here. too about about the barrel distortion on the rear pencils. mag 99
i can appreciate how tough this was to get-i tried something similar and i gave up cause my whole house smelled like pencils and was smokey(oops)-great idea and very nice photo