you're totally right- this really does remind me of my spinning tree picture, only this rocks my world!! i love it! i have a top three favorite pictures on this website and this is def. one of them. i LOVE it. i wish that it could shoot stright up to the top two in the contest... i wish this could be dicovered.. you're really good. rock on=D this is going in my collection.

okay so that last critique from sprat744 was actually from me.. see she's my sister and she was already logged on and i accidently used hers! it was me.. sorry!!! =D

Gee, thanks for the kind words. No formal training here. No photoshop. I'm actually a grad student in Speech-Language Pathology, with a portrait business on the side. If you're interested, please feel free to check out my horribly messy site whitneymortonphoto.smugmug.com. I was the photographer at the local fair. I had a friend that said I should submit to the Chicago Museum of Contemporary Photography. I went there this summer and loved it. But again, thanks for the nice words. This is one of my favorites. I played a lot with blur this summer at the Taste of Chicago as well, but those images are on my laptop...haven't been loaded yet.

i really like photos that are blurred, theres a right time and place for them and i think you rocked it here.. i love it!! i know ive already said it but you have a seriosu talent and i hope you get really recognized. on youre website, i loves the turtle in the hands picture and the one of just the turtles. Also, the ferris wheel one.. but of course i would love that one. then theres a scared little girl with a balloon and soo many more. they were all so good- you got a good eye for great pictures. ya know, sometime i think i see the world as how and thing as how cool they would look as pictures.. you do a great job at making that some to like. awesome job!!! sorry this is soo long=D