Woo Hoo:
What a warm welcome to the photographer community after being absent for more then half a year.
Actually I was getting my a** up and submitted something because some friends from the Powershot A-Series-forum reminded me that there is the wonderful world of digital photography beside work and other stuff.
Congrats to the other winners of this challenge and thanx to all commenter! They make this site very special!
I was really surprised how well my entry did, because I thought that there would be many similar entries showing some lottery stuff.
I got several Lotto-tickets from a local shop (they are for free), made some crosses without much thinking, set up the light and took some shot which turned out to be better than I expected.
Congrats on your come back Jörg. I thought I recognised the German Lottoschein there. I filled these forms out once or twice. Never won anything though :(
This is a wonderful shot. The lines leading you in, the cclarity of the overall shot, the DOF is well done, even the hand is a good choice in that it's not manicured and perfect, just a touch of need in the scruffiness of the fingernails, clean but a bit wanting. I had a 9 on this but am going to make it a 10, well done.
Good idea and very well executed, sharp, good light, good composition. Could maybe cut some of the top of the image away. In my top 3 for this challenge.