"Requirement 3: Frame your shot: This was totally intentional. Fast shutter speed, largish aperture. I cropped the photo then tried to make it look more water color-like in photoshop to compensate for the loss of resolution."

"Requirement 1: Freeze the action: This is a re-submit. I took this at the Stanford Powow. I used a fast shutter speed and a large aperture. I made the background a little blurrier in photoshop afterwards. The colors are a little more vivid if you download the image or view it full size than if you view it regularly on picasa."

"No idea. He looks intense though. Clearly he is on some sort of quest."

"Oooo I found one of these bugs at lunch at the other day. They're pretty funny looking - do you know what it is?"

"This was a picture of Katie that I took pretty much just out of some kind of photo snapping crossfire. It turned out to be such a compelling pose and expression that I decided to see what I could do to make it into an honest photo."