The Blacksmith

Thankyou

Both sharp and soft in all the right places. You have done well Samantha.

Nice colour saturation and an excellent choice for your painted effect background.

Excellent image.

This is one of my favorite photos of your Sam! That and several versions of your guitarist!

What an absolute gem – beautiful!

very nice capture & portrait. beautiful composition!!

Excellent work Samantha

Hi Samantha
I really like your work.
This is one of my favourites.
Great stuff – keep it up!

Superb!!love it,well done Samantha.

Thankyou everyone… this is still one of my favourite pieces. It took alot of hours but he was worth it… and he is a lovely guy as well…
xx Sam

This is an excellent photograph !
Love the atmosphere and can almost feel the ambiance there.
Bravo

This is superb.

Thanks guys!

G’day Samantha,
Hah! So you are THAT Samantha – the one with the great blacksmith photograph!
All the accolades I heaped upon the copy in another site are heaped here as well.
I can see why you made this background and I believe it is very effective and works well with the subject but my personal preference leans toward more natural backgrounds.
But don’t cut yer wrists over my comments kiddo, they are but one man’s opinion.
Besides the overall quality and attractiveness of this very good image negate anything I may say against it.
God blesyou and yours,
Dennis

Thanks Dennis,
This Blacksmith is a teriffic man and one that i am very grateful to for giving his time to me to capture his passion and hobby, a hobby that is dear to me as my grandfather was a blacksmith, I never met him unfortunately but this wonderful technique that allows these guys to manipulate steel into the most amazing items just facinates me.
Thanks again for your comment!.
xx Sam

Very nice

Fantastic portrait. Really loving this!

outstanding shot…great work

Love this one…

Congratulations on having this excellent bit of work featured!

Congratulations Sam on winning “Best in Show” at Berwick this weekend with this awesome work, something for us “little” people to aspire to :-D

This is beautiful Sam, the image definitely lends itself to the smudge technique. Congratulations on your win at the Berwick Show!

This is really magnificent and it would be most welcome in this group