Thank you to everyone that participated in the "Seeing Simple Beauty" assignment. The assignment was to look for small things of beauty within scenes that you encounter in everyday life, and photograph an "intimate" composition isolating that beauty from the larger scene.
The images submitted for "Seeing Simple Beauty" assignment are displayed below. Please vote on your favorite image for the "People's Choice" award. Simply select the image title in the "poll" attached at the top of this thread, and click "submit vote." NOTE: You need to be logged in to see the voting options. Voting will end at midnight, Mountain Daylight Time (GMT-07:00) on Sunday, 14 September 2008.
There were some great images submitted for this assignment, so I know that picking your favorite will be a challenge.
(http://spiritofphotography.com/coppermine/albums/userpics/10065/spider_web%7E0.jpg)
Imperfection in the morning
(http://spiritofphotography.com/coppermine/albums/userpics/10062/P1130280_JPGbutterfly.jpg)
Butterfly
(http://spiritofphotography.com/coppermine/albums/userpics/10058/keys.JPG)
A simple key to beauty
(http://spiritofphotography.com/coppermine/albums/userpics/10058/light.jpg)
lamp
(http://spiritofphotography.com/coppermine/albums/userpics/10001/20080906_114231.jpg)
Colorado Peaches
(http://spiritofphotography.com/coppermine/albums/userpics/10003/20080901_180309_web.jpg)
Simply Dad
(http://spiritofphotography.com/coppermine/albums/userpics/10058/guitar.JPG)
My guitar
(http://spiritofphotography.com/coppermine/albums/userpics/10065/monarchs1.jpg)
Just hatched
(http://spiritofphotography.com/coppermine/albums/userpics/10010/Indescribable_Beauty.jpg)
Indescribable Beauty
P.S.
You are also invited to add your comments on these images to this thread. If you are the originator, you can add more detail about the image, or if you have a comment or question on someone else's image, please feel free to post a reply to this thread.