it is very effective. to me .

Nice lines!

Wow; I guess your profile avatar "misled" me completely so I'm totally surprised! Not that I thought it was you on the avatar, but still...

Excellent self portrait! Well done.

Must be dinner time.

Very hard to pull off successfully with that technique. Nice sidelight/fur interaction and background.

Pals then?

No hiding anything now - a truly full blown selfie, "warts (-1) and all" so to speak. Bravo! Terrific focus placement and dof.

I like the composition with the great bokeh in the background

Fascinating terrain with nice virga offering rain. Hard to reconcile with other posts for this day - I gather this frame wasn't included in last year's set.