Excellent!

Welcome to P.N., your portfolio is stunning I look forward to seeing much more.

Welcome Agnes, excellent work. Model's right leg is slightly blurred, and if you crop a bit on the bottom you will get an impression that they are drifting in the clouds if that's what you want.

very nice pic ! well done ! 7/7

Beautiful and original.

Great!!!

excellent... no title well!

J'aime vraiment beaucoup!Beau et dynamique....

very nice and original!!!!

fantatsic & enagmatic. idea & composition r brilliant.

Intriguing shot.Love the whole sense of motion.

Very refreshing!... and strangely scarry with the dog... a modern Little Red Hood...

and welcome to PNet

I love it! A fresh (I hate that overused term..) and unique perspective. Terrific!

Wonderful. Stands out amongst all the other excellent shots.

Special .... very special. Original and eyecatching as he..

Eccezionale! Complimenti! ciao.

Spectaculaire!

Spactacular! Great photo!

Hi. Its one of the best photographs I've seen here for quite some time. Its icredible heart warming, it has humor, its highly original, its beautiful,its poetic, its artful... I can hear the music looking at it. ... I wished I could look at pictures like this more often...

My favorite of this pair of images. Delightfully airy & fun!

I like your works. Hopefully ,the large will look better.

Serendipity...full of life!

This is a magical shot. Perfect. I couldn't imagine it working with any of the elements removed. The companion by her side, her legs in movement (skipping, probably), the billowing skirt, the hands positioned so daintily. Someone mentioned little red riding hood, and I agree, it is like a fairy tale.

And the clincher- they're running into the sea. Beautiful.

Too wonderful for words.

7/7

oh! Beautiful shot!

Agnes,

this is why we are photographers !! O what a great image. Thanks for joining photo.net

Original and cute! Love the hand positioning.

Very unusual and beautiful!

You have got to be kidding me...I can't believe all the high ratings that this image has received. 1-its partially out of focus, 2-its acatually MOSTLY out of focus. It looks like most of the image was manipulated in PS but to what point? Sorry for venting at this particular image, but the high ratings of images which are mediocre at best is becoming ludicrous. If you would all start looking at images with the intent of helping others take better photos rather than patting each other on the back in order to get your images on the first page, than this site would be much better off.....OK I'm done

@Rich: so these are your only arguments? oh my. By just quickly looking at your pictures i can tell you, why this image gets better ratings. the composition is strong, eyecatching, and the image manipulation works. this is art man! most of the stuff you see on this page (photo.net), is art! earlier the images were manipulated in the darkroom, now they are in photoshop, time moves, as does photography, and it will move further on. What if painting had not changed between renaissance and biedermeier? the same is now happening with photography, it's changing from analog manipulation in the darkroom, to digital manipulation on a computer - only because an image had obviously been edited in the computer, it doesn't mean that it isn't well done. think about it.

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great image, perfect editing, perfect composition. it simply works. 7/7 - well done.

Outstanding. Im speechless.

just wonderful!!!! the way dhe is holding her hands, is a very nice detail, i love this whole photo, even with the dog ;-) cause usually i don't like dogs, and animals on photos....but in this case its different!!!

Work of art!

Only a woman could create such a masterpiece :)

Simply wonderful

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Simply Irresistible! Very artistic composition. 7/7

lovely ... looking forward to more agnes

refreshing, surreal, feminine, and on top of that, very beautiful.

Comparing my images to anything like this is like comparing apples and oranges - My stuff is not intended to be art - merely a record of things I observe. If you do a search of the top photos (bt average) of the last five years, you'll see some truely stunning work - most of which I think you would also consider art. For example, take a look at the portfolios of these contributors: http://www.photo.net/photodb/user?user_id=484267, http://www.photo.net/photodb/user?user_id=543917, http://www.photo.net/photodb/member-photos?include=all&user_id=609092, http://www.photo.net/photodb/user?user_id=628554, http://www.photo.net/photodb/user?user_id=947345, http://www.photo.net/shared/community-member?user_id=53127, All of these and many more are standards by which I judge and evaluate images in order to qualify for a '7' rating. This image and others in the portfolio simply do not meet those criteria. I'm sorry if my standard of 'art' does not match that of the others here, but I just don't see that this image meets the criteria for a 7/7. --Rich

really...some people here are getting me nervous...after your bright demonstration, ritch, I only need to provide one answer : take 5 minutes and visit : http//:www.donadieustudio.com

maybe, if the temperature is fine, if everything is cool around, going there - maybe - you will learn that photography is not just a question of focus...

I do agree with you Pascale...

We all learned about focus, in focus, out of focus.. well maybe one of the first rules,no? Then later we learn about colors, color combinations and so on. We learn about rules of third and how to crop, to use a frame. And then? If you follow all this rules you get a great shot? No, wrong!!! If Ilook at some of the greatest shots of all time, a lot of them are grainy.. or out of focus, or no rule of thirds, or cropped "strangely". The beauty about photography is that often the best pictures break all this rules to show us something we dont see on a daily base. Almost all of these photographs though have one thing in common: Content, message, emotion!.. so does this photograph. It does not only capture what I see, but more important, what I cant see! It triggers emotions and tickles my senses. it stimulates my brain.

good!

I love this fanciful image. Light, dreamy and romantic I'd expect Audrey Hepburn to be at the top of those legs! Superb sensitive created image. I wondered how many takes/attempts you made at this particular image before you were happy with this end result? The best thing about your images is that they defy all the conventional rules for photography yet they illustrate very simple and somewhat conventional themes and emotions. Just lovely image creation!

i always enjoy life. and this picture makes me even more happy ! very interesting image ! thanks.

ABSOLUTELY FANTASTIC, REMINS OF ALLICE IN WONDERLAND AND MUCH MOORE !!! 100% PRO WORK :) BEST OF ALL

Superb story telling keeping a mystery, sexy, a go go

Wonderful!!

Congrats for this marvellous moment... out of "Amelie Poulain". Not for the colors, but for the contrast in the sky and fairy-like atmosphere giving by the differently blurred parts. A dream come true.

a pure miracle !

I totally love this shot. It is out of focus but that doesn't detract from the image overall. Philip's Audrey Hepburn comment is apt.

Your other beach shot may be better in one or two elements (the position of the woman's legs, the higher shutter speed) but on the whole this is the better one.

Simply put, lovely picture with a touch of elegance. Thank you for sharing

Excellent. Reminds me of Eliott Erwitt's work, and it wouldn't look misplaced amongst his pictures. Regards, Heiko

I can see why it was chosen. Great and extraordinarily eye-catching. I find it makes me smile.