Shortlist Warm-Up

I really like this picture because the sun is at the perfect spot which makes the sky look magical, all the different hues of blue and yellow compliment each other so well.  I also really like how the clouds look. It's looks like they were perfectly placed the exact same distance apart from each other.

When I read the text for this picture it made me happy. The teacher is a paraplegic and he's still able to do his job and teach his students. He's able to defy odds and do what he wants.

When I got to these pictures most of them showed girls in random poses with excessive make up and that to me is just unappealing and then I came to this picture. The text was "my lovely boyfriend." It was plan and simple and so is the pictures and that was what made me gravitate towards it.

This picture is of an eighty year old grandmother and her seventeen year old son. The grandmother is suffering from chronic pulmonary disease and they both know her time is coming to an end and the affection between these two is refreshing. It's not everyday you see this kind of love especially coming from a teenage boy.

When I got to this website most of these pictures were of a people just facing the camera and a plan background but this pictures is different. The little girl is out of focus and the bubble seems to be the main subject but it still tells a much better story then people just staring at the camera and smiling.

This is one of the more tough category to pick a picture I like. Documentaries to me are more movies and not so much pictures so I was a little confused. However when this picture came up and I saw what it said I picked it. Those two simple words that when put together go so much deeper then you would expect, it's surprising and refreshing at the same time.

When I got to this category most of the pictures where close up of flowers and I would have to read every single text to actually understand what I was looking at but when I got to this one I knew. It's a tree, simple as that. This tree in a way is the perfect tree. It should be the pictures in the dictionary, right next to the definition of a tree.

I chose this picture first of all because tigers are one of my favorite animals and also because it's so natural. The tiger like any other predator needs to work for its food. In this case the tiger is jumping out of the water to be able to get his next meal.

This picture not only has a really pretty model but the 3D effect on it makes a lasting impression. It was the very first picture on the slide but I came back to it at least three more times before finally deciding on it. It's just fun/confusing to look at.

I chose this pictures because it's so detailed. You can see the snot even coming out of the bull's nose as he fights. You can see the intensity in the bull's eyes also and can almost in a way feel the anger they are feeling.