Wow. This is remarkably faithful to the goals of the original challenge and to what Whiterook was trying to accomplish, so you get high props for that.
I vaguely wish you'd resisted the temptation to throw in the always-pleasing DPC cliché water droplet, but I can't really punish you for knowing what the voters like can I? And the image is beautifully lit and actually fairly puzzling, as a macro; exactly what is that surface, anyway? You even managed to make an image that's entirely *brown* (in a brown ribbon challenge) and make it look appealing :-)
End result, an 8 from me for now. |