wooooah!! This looks like something for the next Myst game!!! WOW! .......Sevedro's room...

Thanks for the nice comment Tony. I like your association. :)

(I submitted a slight edit of this one and would appreciate any comment on what image is the better (and why).)

I personally like this one better. DId u every play a Myst game? Cuz i am still amazed at the resemblance. I just wanna move the hand over that little ball thing and click on it and see what happens! =)

Thank you for the opinion. :) I think I do so too because the lightning is softer and the textures more nuanced but the other one is nice in it's own way.

I think I played around with the first Myst, I don't know, maybe 6 years ago. But that was only for a couple of hours and I never got so far with it. (I had no computer of my own at that time...) I remember vaguely that it was a very fascinating environment you got to know there.

I just put these object randomly in an appealing constellation on a small table when I shot it. Most of it is fancy goods my wife got on our shelves at home. :) I did it just as a spur of the moment as the light was so nice in that corner of the room.

I like the lighting. The objects are pretty cool too. Your wife has good taste :) Thank you :))

Thank you Mimi, you are welcome. :) I think my wife have pretty good taste too. (The crystal is mine though. ^_^) I love oriental / middle-east ornaments of this sort.

I'm late getting here (as usual), but I definitely prefer this to the other one. I think the detail is intriguing enough to want to see it clearly. One thing I think detracts a litle is the shadow on the bowl, more or less dead centre. I'm not sure what the object is that's casting the shadow, but I'd try moving it forward a little. The shadows on the backdrop are soft and add to the image, but this one is harder and hides some interesting detail. That's a minor criticism, tho' - this is a very atmospheric still life and you've achieved a very nice colour palette that really suits the subject :-)

Thank you so much for the hint on one of the mistakes I made in this shot. It's something I actually didn't see until you mentioned it. Advice like that is priceless for me. (And I hope to get more in the future too. ^_^)

It's so easy to get blind for ones own work after a while. It's not so likely I do a re-shoot of this one (I tired myself somewhat during the photo sessions I had to fix material for my team - all in all I took well above 1700 shots ^_^) but I'll keep the advice in mind for later works. I could try the dodge tool in PS I guess but I doubt it will work seamlessly in this case.

BTW the object throwing the shadow is some kind of bell. :)

I like this one better of the two. I also agree about that nagging shadow. Still high marks from me.

Thanks for telling me Sally. I really appreciate that. :)

Nice arrangement Klas...the shadowing is quite interesting. I agree that this is the better shot. Do you know where your wife got the tall vase? I am very interested in its origin.

Thanks for the comment Darryl. I asked my wife and she said it was from her grandfather who was a sailor and that he brought it back from the middle east, probably Syria.

Very interesting Klas. My mother has a few pieces similar to that which came off a pulp freighter. Thanks for the info:-)

I like this shot! Do you have a close up of the crystal?

I love it. I think it's beautiful because of the fact that the colors seem to run in a theme. It belongs in a frame on a wall. It's beautiful.

Looks like a display my childhood art teacher would've composed. I like ...