Voting is just getting harder and harder. I love so many of these images and Lars, where is your image. I liked the safety pin, but you pulled the image!! Sheila, I really think you should submit your perfume images to the manufacturers and see if you can sell them. Those are much better than the advertising images I've seen of those perfumes. Michele, I love your tulips image - so soft and spring feeling and perfect with the white background. Right now, I'm leaning toward voting for Girod's 'Lost in Translation'. I love the composition, love the letters with the pen, and I thought he did a great job on focus - the dead sharp focus on the pen point and soft fall off on the barrels both directions. Oh, and I also love Prairie Dust's ladybug. Dave, I think you may have a calling to macro photography of insects--there are many publications out there that could benefit from your fantastic detail you capture on these insects! Of course you'd be competing with Marilyn as her capture of the tent caterpillars brought goosebumps to me remembering when a similar creature attack a tree in my yard one year. Great job, everyone!