Happy Birthdayyy ....

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Hahaha... Ken, Mauricio made me wonder: are you by any chance, maybe not only "eggcentric", but somehow "eggocentric"? :-))))))))))))))

Tell us the truth: you were inside this egg holding the candle, weren't you...?

Simply wonderful !!! ..... and lots of fun....

Another excellent "Egg" from Ken. ;-)

Excellent!!

Ken...wonderful to see the babies picture. As soon as I saw it I opened my fridge and told all the children that Uncle Ken posted cousin EggBerts birthday portrait. When I brought them all out to look they commented that the black line was surely a tear of pride running down EggBerts little chin. Cheers...jim

I saw it the day of my birthday, I thought it was my present. Thanks

It certainly is Guillermo ................ Happy 90 th Birthday !! ...................... (-;

Well, Ken...

Let's be plain honest here. There was a bit of sarcasm in my previous posts...

It's just beyond me how this picture - which is somehow amusing of course -, can get rated higher than for example Tony Dummett's Speaker's corner.

All these eggs shots are reasonably well done, and reasonably amusing... All these pictures are probably worth 5s and sometimes very original, i.e 6... But hey, don't we all see this cropped shadow and this line on the egg...? Could the volume of the egg be rendered better ? Shouldn't the lighting be slightly softer ? Etc.

All these questions are imao not completely meaningless, and I'm not sure how many people actually wondered about these things...

Well, to me they matter. This picture being particularly "out of the blue" - or should I say "out of the egg ? :-) - is one of your best images... 7s ? Not to me. But hey, it was your birthday... :-) Cheers.

WOW..an egg shot. Now there's something different:)

Lou has one of the best Eggg shots I've ever seen ..................... Hoping you will upload the 'White on White' shot again ............... (-;

I prefer more of a vertical crop myself. :-)

Damn I wish I had your PS skills ............... amazing Rick ............... I give 'you' a 7-7 for 'our' shot ................ Thanks for the big grin -- really made me laugh out loud ............... sol

Outstanding!!.........:-)

Oh, but this one was so easy Ken. I didn't even have to mask the girl. I just set the layer control to "lighten" and the black background around her chin dropped out of sight. Then, a "distort-shear filter" on the candle's flame. Elementary!

 

On a more serious note...when I changed the orientation to vertical (before adding the woman's face), I really liked the large span of negative space above the egg. It added a whole new element of emptiness to the image and I almost posted it without the girl. But, then that would not have been as much fun now...would it?

Thanks for taking the time Rick ................

Very clever Rick-Ken... you two should team up and take your show on the road... lol!

If you are very lucky, the audience with throw eggs at you!

 

Very creative, both of you.

Interesting idea .................... What do you think Rick ?? .................. (-;

Maybe it is time for me to start a "Photo.net Satires" folder. I've got some ideas!!!

I agree .................... let me know which images you want to use ................. (-;

Ken, yet another excellent egg photo. Rick, cool PS interpretation. Funny, real funny.

Well Ken, I think you should be made chief eggsecutive of the Egg Marketing Board, as you've managed to come up with such in-ovative ideas for what to do with an egg. Were you testing this one for freshness?

Beautifully Ken Williams style :) Love it cowboy !!

It's a good idea Ken; I'd prefer softer light and a "pure" flame (I see cyan and white in your flame - but it must be my eyes as no one else has mentioned it.)

I like the albumen running down like that but would really like to see more ballerinas please!!

Hope you found that boiled egg-flavoured RC you were looking for.

This is an eggcellent shot (imo the best in your egg series). Well deserved 7/7. I wish I could give another 7/7 to Rick for his creative re-interpretation.