I thought I could see him - then I realised it was a dust bunny on my monitor. Perfect representation of darkness, just a little out of focus. Perhaps try recomposing the shot a little, I find the top left corner a little distracting.
Certainly meets the challenge.
The way you positioned Waldo according to the thirds rule shows the hand of a true master! Nevertheless the picture suffers somewhat from the lack of detail.
But maybe that's just my monitor not being calibrated.
Lol. Nice. If this shot ceases to get an 8, people are just haters, lol.
I was tempted to do the same...
Although dressing up as waldo and letting just enough light to hint that there is or was Waldo in this shot would've taken this pic to the next level. Nevertheless an 8 for being a smart ass, lol. Awesome.
Was wondering if someone was going to do this, and also quite interested to see how it goes, and what the comments on the photo are.
The image fits the challenge topic very well. You have chosen a very nice tone of black here, spot on really. The PP to achieve this has been carried out exceptionally well. I also like the aspect ratio used, although you could have been tempted to go for the square crop. Concern of course with that is getting the detail in the photo retained when you have to reduce down for the image size limitations...............:p
LOL I'm thinking this could be the brown. I hope I'm wrong. Reminds me of a funny story. There was a guarded exhibition at the Houston Gallery of Art one year. A room with GIANT black canvases by some well known artist. My mom and her brother sat in there laughing. To think, they had to have an armed guard outside the door. HAHAHA