Nice, very talented! I have a new appreciation for photography since rejoining this site, you are one of many talented photographers! Very nice work.

Personally I have mastered the talent of photographing my thumb!?!

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-J.Markey

"Most trouble in the world is caused by people who want to feel important." - T.S. Elliot

well to me...i like the bw one better...it's simple it gets the idea across...it has this mood of intimacy in it...the background being blurred adds to the focused subject...the embracing of the subject and how it works so well with the tone makes the image radiates something more than just an image....for the emulsion version...sure it has a cool effect, but then you lost everything that's in the bw which was intimacy and the focusing on the subject...the background distracted too much from the essential point of the image...the texture also drives the viewer away from the subject...then it seems the subject is not that important anymore...it's just a part of the image...there's no hierarchy w/in it...and it looks like a painting...

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'somebody once laid his hand on Fontenelle's heart, saying to him, "what you have there, dear sir, is another brain"'-'the gay science'- Frierich Nietzche

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I always thought that cake toppers were these silly looking little plastic doodads that just made a nice cake look..stupid. This isn't so bad. It is actually very cool...and this is a lovely shot of it. ^_^

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"Ordinary life does not interest me. I seek only the high moments. I am in accord with the surrealists, searching for the marvelous."
~ Anais Nin

Yeah they have some really cool contemporary ones available. This one is sitting on top of our mantle now 2 tears after the wedding, so it didn't go to waste.

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" It's not Art Theft. SheezyART says it's not"