Simply Irresistible
Uploaded: June 13, 2005
* Featured in the Better Photo Digital Darkroom Issue #027 *
And, the Photogroup 101 Peoples Choice Award on 5/26/06!
Cynthia A. Gallo Callan June 13, 2005
Laura -- the title fits this so well -- This is Simply Irresistible! Great job. #262517Claudia Kuhn June 13, 2005
Lovely and soft Laura, beautiful! #1463182Cindy Paquette June 13, 2005
Laura, you've outdone yourself with this beauty! Wow ... irresistible is right on! #1463238Walter Graziano June 13, 2005
Nice soft effects, Laura. #1463256Agnes Fegan June 13, 2005
Nice work on this Laura...very pretty! #1463258Tom Andersen June 13, 2005
Beautiful image, Laura! The effects and lighting are fantastic! #1463262Donna W. Neal June 13, 2005
Beautiful!!! Love the applications you applied #1463279Dorothy Neumann June 13, 2005
Just beautiful, Laura! #1463325Kelly Abernathy June 13, 2005
Lovely effects! -K #1463336Linda D. Lester June 13, 2005
Lovely effects, Laura! #1463368Joy Rector June 13, 2005
Absolutely beautiful, great work. #1463384Laura Clay-Ballard June 13, 2005
good morning everyone! I'm going out of town today .. I'll catch up later!Darren K. Fisher June 13, 2005
So elegant looking. I hope you printed and hung this one. Wonderful job Laura. #1463518Paul Michko June 13, 2005
What an awesome elegant image, Laura. #1463562S J June 13, 2005
So very delicate and beautiful, Laura!! Love your creative composition on this!! #1463638Colleen Braun June 13, 2005
this is beautiful... #1463652Adilson F. Ferreira June 13, 2005
Fantastic image Laura!!!Donald K. Cherry June 13, 2005
Great image and fantastic PS work!! #1463807Deb Holmes-Hatfield June 13, 2005
Beatuiful, Laura, so delicate looking, great effects! #1463826Loan Tran June 13, 2005
I love the soft, delicate, painterly looking effect on you image. Well done job. #1463941Michelle Lea Guinn June 13, 2005
beautiful image and wonderful title!! mlg #1464027Dominique Declerck June 13, 2005
Great effects, Laura!! beautiful !! #1464055Bryan Yates June 13, 2005
I really like this!! This is perfect! #1464066Olivia Navarro June 13, 2005
Laura, you are really on a roll lately! :-)This is sooooo LOVELY! It's soft, elegant, delicate. I just love it! #1464091
Gail Vitikacs June 13, 2005
FABULOUS...this is such a beautiful piece of art! #1464219Anita Hogue June 13, 2005
Awesome, Laura! I believe you have a winner here! #1464257Nobu Nagase June 13, 2005
E X Q U I S I T E, Laura!!!Tammy Nuxoll June 13, 2005
This is Absolutely Gogeous Laura!!! Hope you had a Wonderful Weekend!!! #1464339Deborah Sandidge June 13, 2005
Very painterly effects, Laura - great work! #1464362Kevin Burns June 13, 2005
Now this image is cool to just look at love the effects and colors and the comp!! Well done. #1464420Claudette Foote June 13, 2005
wow! wow! wow! love the sofness the color and effects.. great job Laura... so beautiful...Absolutely Gogeous Laura!!! #1464448
Karen Engelbreth June 13, 2005
Soft and beautiful, Laura! #1464508Melissa L. Zavadil June 13, 2005
Very soft and beautiful image you have created! Wonderful image!! #1464563Wren Hendrick June 13, 2005
What a talent you have!! Perfect title, this is just stunning. #1464761Judy S. Fung June 13, 2005
Lovely image and wonderful work on this, Laura! #1465062Ermanno Radice June 13, 2005
Wonderful image, great work, love the soft effect, Laura! #1465323Shelly A. Van Camp June 13, 2005
STUNNING! Love this..soft and pretty..Shelly #1465539Marsha S. Smith June 13, 2005
Absolutely exquisite! Awesomely beautiful, Laura. #1465765Mary Clarke June 13, 2005
This is simply beautiful, Laura. #1465802Rhonda Smith June 13, 2005
This is breathtaking Laura.. looks like a very high end watercolor painting.. I love it!! #1465815Laura Clay-Ballard June 13, 2005
I've been out of town all day long, and what a wonderful return home and seeing all these comments! Thanks to everyone! #1466125Goshka G. June 13, 2005
Absolutely gorgeous, Laura!! #1466256Kara L. Hendricks June 13, 2005
This is exsquisite Laura... I love this... #1466292Lucia De Giovanni June 13, 2005
Beautiful work, Laura! #1466390Rob Friedman June 13, 2005
Gorgeous work!! #1466507William C. Raco June 13, 2005
Love that color, composition and moodbill
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Laura E. OConnor June 13, 2005
Beautiful digital darkroom work, Laura! #1466715Debra Booth June 13, 2005
Gorgeous, Laura! Great editing!! #1466757Laura Clay-Ballard June 13, 2005
Thanks to all and to all a good night! :>) #1466758Sharon L. Wack June 13, 2005
Hi Laura, I am the late bird again tonight so you'LL get this in the morning, WHAT A WONDERFUL PIECE OF ART WORK! The texture is just like my oil paintings, I really love the softness you have created BEAUTIFUL!!!!!!!! #1467111Alisha L. Ekstrom June 13, 2005
I'm another late bird as well Laura. I've been busy so now I have time to comment!! This is BEAUTIFUL!!! I love how it looks like a painting done on canvas. You're getting VERY creative little lady!!!!:):) Wonderfully done:) #1467227Danilo Piccioni June 13, 2005
This is my favorite from you!!!!!Donna Roberts June 13, 2005
Laura, this is SO BEAUTIFUL and I loved reading how you achieved this.Kerby Pfrangle June 13, 2005
Laura this is so pretty.Soft in color and wonderful in compositon.
Very nicely done.
Kerby #1467295
Kate Jackson June 14, 2005
Breathtaking an amazing Laura!! Love the work you have done on this! #1467496Laura Clay-Ballard June 14, 2005
Thanks, everyone! :>) #1468051Bill Houghton June 14, 2005
This is just beautiful Laura. Great job. #1468186Jenny Bosmans June 14, 2005
Gorgeous, Laura!!! Takes my breath away!! #1468412Laura Clay-Ballard June 14, 2005
Thank you! #1468599Dan Holm June 14, 2005
Absolutely GORGEOUS, Laura!! Excellent work on this elegant image! #1470042Roxanne M. Bubar June 14, 2005
Beautiful colors and wonderful effects. #1470176Laura Clay-Ballard June 14, 2005
Thanks, Dan and roxanne! #1470348Amanda Price June 15, 2005
Absolutely soft and beautiful! Love it! #1473536Laura Clay-Ballard June 15, 2005
thanks so much! #1474087Mary K. Robison June 16, 2005
CONGRATULATIONS, Laura! This is a beautiful choice for the Digital Darkroom's June Newsletter! #1475598Vicki Hunt June 16, 2005
This is SO lovely! #1475897Laura Clay-Ballard June 16, 2005
Thanks, Mary for pointing this out to me! I'm on my way out of town for the day! What a very pleasant surprise! #1476133Anne D. Eigen June 16, 2005
This is and exquisite image Laura. Wonderful vision and execution of DA effects! #1476350DiAnna F. Paulk June 16, 2005
Laura, this is BEAUTIFUL! And I was so happy to see it int he June Digital Darkroom!!! Way to go, Laura!! #1476397Marie Fields June 16, 2005
Gorgeous image, Laura! Excellent work! #1476723Mary N C. Taitt June 16, 2005
Utterly gorgeous. WOW! #1476782Donna La Mattino Pagakis June 16, 2005
Hi Laura, I wanted to congratulate you on being featured in the Digital Darkroom!! A job well done!! This is lovely!!Donna #1477088
Alisha L. Ekstrom June 16, 2005
Congrats Laura on being in the digital darkroom newsletter for June!!!!!! This is a wonderful...beautiful image. You go girl!!!:):) #1478446Laura Clay-Ballard June 16, 2005
Thank you, everyone, for your kind remarks on this image and for your hearty congratulations for getting it in the newsletter. You are the best! #1479304Cathy Stancil June 18, 2005
So Gorgeous Laura !! Excellent PS work on this beautiful image ! (sorry its taking me so long to come around...I am finally having some time to catch up with comments !!) #1486392Debbie Hartley June 18, 2005
A beautiful magnolia Laura! #1487160Laura Clay-Ballard June 19, 2005
Thanks, Cathy and Debbie! :>) #1488193Elisabeth A. Gay June 19, 2005
This is so soft and pretty Laura, lovely!Souha Dooly June 19, 2005
Lovely Laura!!!so nice and soft !!Its a great work!! #1489248Laura Clay-Ballard June 19, 2005
Thanks a whole bunch, y'all! :>) #1489414Angela K. Wittmer June 21, 2005
this is beautiful! Wonderful job! #1497532Laura Clay-Ballard June 21, 2005
Thank you, Angela. #1499090Noel Baebler June 22, 2005
Beautiful filter work, Laura! I bet this would look great printed on inkjet watercolor paper! #1505688Laura Clay-Ballard June 22, 2005
thanks for the suggestion noel! i'll give it a try! #1505804Stephen Zacker June 22, 2005
Beautiful and Elegant. Like your effects #1506792Sandra Wehrman June 24, 2005
love the soft color and texture mix, reminds me of a watercolor on rice paper, very nice job! #1515328Laura Clay-Ballard June 24, 2005
thank you very much! I actually printed it on watercolor paper, yesterday, and it looks terrific; however, I think I need to work on the colors for that type of paper .. #1515371Terry L. Ellis June 24, 2005
So soft, so elegant, and so beautiful, Laura!! Wonderful effects! #1515373Laura Clay-Ballard June 24, 2005
thank you, terry! :>) #1515381Susie Peek-Swint June 25, 2005
Fantastic work Laura ~ I love the wonderful simplicity you've created ~ well done! #1519380Mary Timman August 09, 2005
I love this image and the work you did is really just beautiful. You made it wonderfully gorgeous.Laura Clay-Ballard August 09, 2005
thanks, mary and susan! #1697274Anderson D. Co August 10, 2005
Simple yet so elegant. Nice work on this! #1699452Laura Clay-Ballard August 10, 2005
Thanks! #1699898Jennifer Rennison August 22, 2005
Beautiful, love the soft pastel and lighting! Excellent image, Laura! #1751138Laura Clay-Ballard August 22, 2005
Thanks! #1751240Tammy Scott August 23, 2005
WOW I love how soft and delicate this is, Laura! #1758236Laura Clay-Ballard August 23, 2005
Thanks, Tammy! #1758482Tonya R. Boles May 07, 2006
Great job Laura, this is so soft.. #2735626Laura Clay-Ballard May 07, 2006
thanks, Tonya! its one of my all time favorites! #2735816Michelle R. Kovach May 26, 2006
Congratulations on Winning the 101 Photogroup's PCA! #2819853Jenny Bosmans May 26, 2006
Congratulations again, Laura!! Super!! :) #2819868Laura Clay-Ballard May 26, 2006
oh my goodness!!!! how wonderful is this!!!!!!!!!?????? Thanks!!!!!!! #2819876Kara L. Hendricks May 26, 2006
Congratulations Laura!!! Way to go!!! #2819911Corinne M. Thompson May 26, 2006
The award and title say it all...Congrats! :) #2820037Laura Clay-Ballard May 26, 2006
thanks, y'all! #2820053Kenneth Mucke May 26, 2006
Just simply MAGNIFICANT #2820482Laura Clay-Ballard May 27, 2006
thanks, kenneth! #2821212Shelly A. Van Camp April 07, 2007
Very Pretty..love your effects! #4140495Laura Clay-Ballard April 07, 2007
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