Delightful image of Abby; the bricks just disappear.

Nice lines. actually works really well for portrait back ground. Nice natural portrait too.

A soul capturing image for sure.

For all the years I've been watching your kids grow up, your eldest's face has always radiated love and kindness. The bokeh is really nice too.

Here that HDR effect works particulary well.

It does have a certain pop to it.

Yeah the skylight in our bedroom.. Tried some LE's for cloud blur but wasn't worth the while. We often wonder what those lines are too. Guessing cracks, though not all the way through. The roof here is the noisiest I've ever experienced. Last night was woken up by creaks in the roof that sounded like somebody was walking on it.. It's a slanted roof though so highly doubt anything is up there.

Interesting abstraction - skylight? - but what are the wavy lines? Nice contrast with the straight parallel ones either side.

Glow is the word - fantastic finish, and what an exotic range of lines, shapes and tones.

Merged O, -2 and -4 in Photomatix and used the "B&W Artistic" style found within. It had some unattractive aspects in areas so selectively blended that with another Nik SFX'd copy of the merge in Gimp....