"DP" is "Digital Perverts" perhaps..? LOL... BTW, I was thinking "LOL" to be as "Lots of laugh"... So, "TY" to all of you... :) Of course, anyother contribution is also welcome...

Of all the underwater photography that you've sent till now, this image is best according to me, haunting infact..! Diving, and especially wreck-diving always fascinates me...shivers down my spine...adrenalin surge... Also, I find the composition and the light and your choice of b/w very successful... :)

Personally, I liked this "manta" pic more... Not just form, but also some good detail is beautiful. Also, I think this pic has a better composition... Anyway, what you do, diving and photographing, is very exciting...

Dear Alpha, here are my comments... 1- Your cropping and composition is far better, being more balanced and eliminating some really distracting elements. 2- While rendering my image, it was actually something like this golden-yellow hue you achieved that I was trying to get. In fact, the colors of my image are quite better than the colors of the source photo but, they seem to be more reddish and desaturated now. 3- [They have constructed the railings wrong..! :)] I now get what you mean by "conflicting lines": the two right-most railing support bars in the foreground seem to be inclining leftwards, while it seems they have to be standing vertical. Still, the photo was taken quite close to stairs, looking slightly upwards (possibly a fine 20-30 degrees in respect to the floor), and with a 35 mm lens (Rolei B-35), and I think such conditions may create a perspective that, the vertical lines to the right and the left of the middle may seem to be slightly converging towards a focal point up above (Notice that, the two left-most vertical railing support bars seem to be slightly inclining to the right). On closer look, I get that though the "skew" process has rendered the "vertical" bars to be more satisfyingly vertical, this time the upper "vertical" window lines seem to have parted away from each other. 4- I am not offended by any means :). On the contrary, I'm honored that you spent some time on my work and shared your opinions and techniques with me. I'm learning PSP and Photoshop just for 7-10 days, and, due to work, I do not have much time to practice a lot... And this discussion gave me a lot of tips. 5- I'm thankful... C'ya... :)

Actually, I have to admit that I find this image to be the least successful one among the photgraphic images that I've posted. This image seems to be problematic somehow, and, in my opinion, the problem lies primarily in my cropping of the image. I remember performing crops as tight as Alpha did, but didn't like them during the process. I was feeling as if I was loosing too much image area and many elements. Still, seeing Alpha'a version, not during the process but in a sudden way, shows me that tight crops may work very finely, and that I was including some unnecessary elements in my image, like the lower right bright area with two perpendicular lines. So, a lesson for myself: do your crops, even if you don't like the outcomes first...then save them...then, after a while, re-evaluate them on their own... :)

The first one..! In the first photo, I find the out-of-focus areas working beautifully for the benefit of the image. But, in the second photo, I need to see the drops perfectly in-focus...at least a few of them or a group of them (as far as the depth-of-field allows). The first one..! :)

Actually, I didn't get your idea clearly, but I'm curious to see how it's gonna work. So, feel free to experiment. Thanx... :)

Should have introduced myself properly in the beginning, shouldn't I..? I'm from Ankara, the capital city of Republic of Turkey, and this building is one of the larger shopping malls in Ankara...

The background texture... Is it actually a scanned surface which is then integrated into the image in Photoshop, or is it a pure Photoshop manipulation..? I liked that texture...

Still, I'm looking over and over again...to the masculine expression of the handsome boy, and to the feminine expression of the very beautiful girl... So, you're one lucky mother...

Immediately reminded me of "Sally Mann"... Beautiful photo...but, isn't the arm of the boy's shirt too bright..?

I will try to, as far as I find the spare time. C'ya all... :)