Extremely pleased and grateful for the comments, especially since it looks like it will be a brown ribbon winner.
And thrilled to get the spurgeon sturgeon.
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Would love to know how you processed this. Congrats on the bling and the fabulous comments. Check out the score differential between all users and commenters.
Keep coming back to this one. Obviously different, and will beat me to the Brown. I happen to find this fascinating. It provided a pathway to ponder vision; the shades, from black to white, forming shapes, driving thought, and encouraging imagination. A truly enjoyable experience. Cheers.
Like a charcoal drawing - beautifully integrated portrait in this exercise but the expression remains somehow random, due to the medium. I like a lot the contour of the head. I would have cropped half of the face (the man's right eye) and left the right side with the background.
In any case, I find this shot like a breath of fresh air in this challenge.
This is almost like a photocopy of another low quality photocopy; insanely noisy, contrast is too dark, no point of focus, seemingly no real thought to composition and the apparent point of interest isn't even really legible. I can just about make out a face but the quality of this image is so low I feel I can't give higher than the minimum vote, sorry.
There are a few dark spots that seem to compete for my attention in trying to focus on the eyes. Even given the artistic approach I want to be drawn to the feature in question.
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