Congratulations to Rob for a deserved win. I do think his was the creepiest of them all. What is it indeed with clowns being so scary?!
Congrats also to Terry.
Although I thought Rob's clown was the creepiest, I like Terry's tree so much that I put it first. I love that image. It's a tree worthy of being in a horror movie! Rob's being the creepiest had to come after and Marco's tree climbing skeletons got my #3 vote.
My own entry was shot years ago for a POTN challenge. It's one shot taken with a very slow shutter speed and me moving, holding a pose, moving, holding, repeat a few times. So it was all done in camera. No Photoshop trickery although I did burn and dodge some parts a bit there.
My first thought when I saw the theme was this one, taken 15 years ago. I had just purchased my little Powershot SX100 and it was winter with birds on the ledge, coming for the scraps I put out for them there and I tried to photograph them. But my presence scared them away, so I took an old winter coat and hid in it. I had opened the window and I still remember how very cold it was. I was emailing with a friend and they wanted to see it, so I took this pic.
And I took it with my webcam! I kid you not. I didn't have another camera. So I positioned myself in front of the monitor and shot myself like that. I only have one shot and I upsized it in Photoshop. In the end I thought IQ was too bad to use so I went with the other one.
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