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Your processing has really brought out the texture in the trunks. Nice work

Oh wow i used to play in these trees as a child …. great shot… just beautiful!¡ Maybe titled Im Not Trunk Im just Happy?

beautiful tones and textures

hee hee 6point1 – love the suggestion for a title…

Wow! This is fantastic Nicole. Such a brilliant shot to begin with, but then you have given it so much life and atmosphere with your processing. I love the high contrasts in this and the tones are wonderful.. an instant favourite!

superb imagery.. love it a lot…

A beautiful shot, the grainy textures give it great definition

Fabulous shot of your little cutie!

Outstanding work, and a beautiful image Nicole!

This is just fantastic – awesome composition and sense of scale, and your processing is so beautiful! Love those beautifully convoluted tree roots and textures!

Fantastic! Fab composition,texture and tones!

Lovely detail and texture in the roots, as well as a gorgeous expression of concentration.

Thanks everyone for the great (and fast) comments… these trees are so beautiful and huge!

this is soo beautiful Nicole – such an impressive tree and i just love the look on Louis’ face. Beautiful textures and wonderful b&w.

incredible light work. the tree is so rich and monsterous. love the little niche he has found to settle and study his find. excellent composition.

WOW…just fantastic…what a great shot and the tones are just perfect

Beautiful light Nicole – just classic for a B&W with these lines and textures. A ripper!

Beautifully captured…love the expression!

If I knew where that tree were, it’d become my permanent photoshoot
place! Absolutely awesome capture, Nicole.

Perfect capture, very wel done.

OH that is stunning… great tones, really wonderful job with the composition. Great image all together. It makes me think of the imagination world in Bridge to Terabithia. Well done.

I like your work (otherwise I would not leave comment, due time constraints).
Below my reasons for it and my honest opinion.
Please don’t feel de-motivated if some honest feedback is given.
I always mean it in a positive way. And in all, it’s just my perception anyway.

Impact (does it grab attention?): good
Composition (use of space, lines): really good
Subject matter: good
Focal point: the face, but multiple areas on the left compete
Style (story): very nice
Lighting: ok
Color balance: strong contrast
General: like the idea, maybe tone down the left part to bring out the child?

Great work with the textures Nicole. Brilliant shot!

Beautiful Nicole

Thanks everyone for the lovely comments
Thankyou Henk for being so honest, I was actually tossing up between two versions of this image – the other one I added a slight blur and vignette around the edges to bring out louis, but then thought this one looked sharper/brighter so when I asked my husband which one he liked, he picked this one – so I probably should have posted the other one!

Great image, I love the tones in this.

What a superb monotone image! Well done Nicole! :D

love the foreground. nice shot

v. cool nicole!
awesome black tones.
another great work!

awesome photo, so different.

this is a pretty incredible shot – your tonal work is amazing!

great. totally atmospheric.

this is a one in a million shot!....fantastic opportunity and so well executed!

Wonderful work Nicole, the inclusion of your son, in amonst the roots of this fabulous tree, gives the image perspective and the processing is superb!

outstanding…so well done

you have many wonderful images, this one stands out to me as I like the texture and contrast that you have achieved, but mostly I like the age and wisdom of the big old tree contrasting with the innocence and youth of childhood :-)

well done, nicole

beautiful.

Absolutely stunning

wow factor here!

Love it!!!

This is just beautiful Nicole! So very well composed… just perfect!

im loving the tones here. great job!

Another wonderful image of captured childhood. Well done, once again. He does look to be in a world of his own, intensely studying his new finds!

WOW! this is incredible i fell in love with it the second i saw this! in my favs!

Wow, gorgeous!

How beautiful and sweet! I’m gonna find myself a big tree to sit in, too.

Very good pic

I love this! Fantastic tones!

I love the look of concentration on his face…great image!

Superb!....... stunning and wonderful…... favs list immediately!

Priceless capture of childhood scene. Small bugs, big world – we all did that in some way. The texture is breathtaking.

His own little world, He’ll always remember those moments. Great shot.

A great image here…I am waiting for the fireflies to pop out and dance about.

OUTSTANDING! Love everything about this!

Wonderful treatment and excellent composition, well done!

Great tones and texture i really like the high contrast in this shot. Excellent image.

Wonderful capture!

Superb, the concentration…

Fantastic texture and well composed image. Love it

absolutely incredible

Wow! This is incredible!
It makes the imagination run wild.

Great b/w image, Nicole!!

Great image, the buttresses are so detailed.I like the look of total concentration on the little ones face.{>:

Another beauty… you just don’t stop !! The heavy contrast & those beautiful dark tones…..
DR Livingstone I presume??....
another favourite!!

I love it.. I sense this winning the comp :) We’ll see! Very nice capture!

I just saw this in the compeition, it is brilliant! I so think your going to win, well in my opinion you should!!!! I Love this image!!! =)

It’s so cute and well done.

great B&W

Love it, absolutely a great B/W

Congrats on a well deserved win in the small world challenge!

Wooohoooo :) :) Well done in the Small World Challenge :) :) :) VBS

A really stunning powerful image. The look, the feel and the composition make this another of your images that speaks!!!!!

Beautiful work! Congrats on the Small World Challenge.

Congratulations on winning the Small World challenge. This is a magnificant photo.

love the forest and the young child

Congratulations on your win in the comp! Not at all surprised :)

Congratulations, outstanding image!

This is so beautiful ! congratulations !

what a great shot!!! (:

Have you ever thought if trees are able to sing lullabyes?
Louis is telling an story to them…
with time they will repeat it to other souls.
I beleive they are excellent mothers… and fathers to us.
Rosa (excellent editing of this beautiful picture.. Lovely)

Aww, well done! Love this! My little one is a bug fanatic too!!

This is just beautiful Nicole!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

beautiful shot, will be able to cherish for years to follow.

Fabulous capture Nicole!!! Congratulations on placing in the top ten in the Children In Touch With Nature Challenge in the Children-The Power of Raw Emotion group group!!!

What can I say that everyone else has not said except. . . into MY favorites!!!

Amazing work! Beautifully composed and the b&w is just outstanding.

Beautiful, beautiful work, Nicole – big congrats on the feature!!

Beautiful, beautiful work, Nicole – big congrats on the feature!!

Very nice and very expressive in B&W

Nicole – very cool image – reminds me of some fairytale -

My son makes the same face when he’s being criticised. Boys will be boys