i kinda liked this at first but then it felt creepy in a way. does it look a bit weird or strange to you guys? what do you think is wrong with this image? i've been looking at it for a month and playing with it and i can't decide. thanks!!!!!

Looks cool to me, I dont see anything wrong with it.

I used to like taking thes kind,but then someone once told me be careful of making "Salad" Or something of that nature. Sofor me ,though I love stuff like this I try to have a subject now. All in learning to me.

"The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions."

Strange?

thanks so much guys for your input!!! this one just had a bit of a surreal feel to it...almost like a fairy tale where where one second everything looks normal, and then the next second you see that these woods are filled with dread and something bad. Strange, Misha, in that i feel like I'm in Hansel & Gretel's world...better be careful 'cause things aren't what they seem!!! But then sometimes I'm like William...look at it and just like it for what it is. LOL about salad, Doug. I take a lot of pics of trees, and someone once asked what i'm takin' a pic of. I said, "Trees!" Trees are one of my fav. subjects to shoot, and i do believe it can be a bit challenging sometimes to capture them in such a way that it doesn't turn out like "salad." LOL! Maybe that's where lighting and mood and all that comes in. i dunno. but maybe that's the other thing that i don't like about this image. Maybe there's not a strong enough focal point. When i look at this one, my eyes tend to focus in the dark areas behind the branches. i keep expecting to see something back there in the shadows. I keep feeling like something/someone is in those woods watchin' me. and Misha, what you did with my image certainly enhances that feel. *shivers* When I compare my original with what you did...well mine isn't nearly as frightening...perhaps it's just a squirrel or deer back there. Look at what you did, Misha. You made the hairs rise on my arms. Do you see those two yellow "eyes" in the darkness between the branches? I do!!!! and they are BIG eyes!!! I took this image in Gulf Shores, Alabama. It's right across the street from the beach and is part of a national forest...protected and surrounded by sand dunes. i wonder if it's a wild boar or perhaps a horse???

Or perhaps something I just added with Photoshop... Muuuuhaahaahaaaa! Hugz! [But yes, first thing I thought of here was of something watching. We're outside looking in. Somethin is inside looking out.]

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Looks fine to me - but I suggest leaving a trail of breadcrumbs whereever you go just in case :)

And every one said, 'If we only live,
We too will go to sea in a Sieve,---
To the hills of the Chankly Bore!'
Far and few, far and few, Are the lands where the Jumblies live;
Their heads are green, and their hands are blue, And they went to sea in a Sieve.

Edward Lear
http://www.nonsenselit.org/Lear/ns/jumblies.html

BOO!!!! shiver, i hear growling...

kicks Misha in the butt!! What??? I seriously cannot believe that YOU added those eyes, Misha!!!!! You are bad to the bone!!!!!!! :) I'm gonna have to keep my eye on you!!!! muuuuuuuaaaaaah! Hugz! ......good idea, Richard, about the bread crumbs!!! and here they are............................................ Cindy, I suggest we let Misha lead the way in. He can buddy up with one of the other guys. The other two can stay behind with us and be our bodyguards!!! :)

Looks good to me. The sad thing is that I squinted at the original just incase that there was really something there! Doh "slaps head"

The Truth is Out There

and YOU say duh....i feel like an "idgit!" I mean those eyes seriously made me shiver. i already felt something strange and spooky with that image, and i really did think that Misha just brought out what i couldn't see. ooooooh, i'm gonna get him back!!!! and when he least expects it!!!!!!! evil grin

8-)

ROTFLMAO!!! Now this is what i love!!!!we should collaborate more often Misha!! I had no idea how silly you were!!!! ok, I'll skip the butt-kickin' if you give me permission to do this myself and upload it in my gallery!!! and of course you would get full credit for making this image magical and delightful!!!!!! :) pleeeeeeeeease????????? i so much needed a laugh tonight!!!! thanks!!!!!

Of course you have permission. NO WAY I'm gonna go in there, butt kick or not!

LOL Misha #12 Very cool, it reminds me of something, although I cant remember what it was, probably a Disney cartoon or something from my boyhood.

The Truth is Out There

hahahahaha!!!!!!!!!!! :D don't let them in!!!

THANK YOU!!!!!!!! i ain't goin' either! backs up slowly on tiptoes...

Disney is scarrrry!