This is very, very late! But here is the feature that I promised to make for 's photography contest titled "Beauty in Unexpected Places!" I really loved this theme, but I never had the time to enter! So here's all of the amazing winners and their beautiful work!

won 1st place with this lovely photo:


It works so well with theme, and the black and white looks beautiful with all of the textures in the photo!

This is a really interesting picture, it seems to have a fashion influence to it, the lighting and colors are lovely
This is so amazingly gorgeous! The eyes in this photo speak so much, and the concept behind this is really wonderful.
This is really unique, I love seeing the face behind such an interesting medium.
This is an amazingly beautiful black and white photo! The tangle of wires is very visually interesting.
Lovely details of the human body, I don't think I've ever seen macros quite like this, I see the pieces as not even human.

In second place was with this amazing photo: To read the description is even more amazing than the actual picture. My response was this picture is of what?! You will surely be confounded when you look at this beautiful photo as well!

This is a lovely shot of a plant... and even netter you normally only see the flowers on this one.
I love how delicately rendered this wing is, the details in it are so beautiful and lacey, I can certainly see this on a lovely little fairy!
I love how this Spath lily is drawn, very uniquely, especially with the crosshatching to make up the different parts of it!
I love the bugs in this one, they are so delicate looking, and I like the curls coming from the fronds!
I love the repetition in this one, beautiful colors as well.

3rd place went to for this lovely photo of rusty doors: The colors are very beautiful, and I love how aesthetically pleasing rust is in photographs. There's so much detail in this!

Here's another rusted piece, the colors in this are not as bright, but very lovely shades of almost pastel.
This is really dramatic, I love her hair in the shot, and her expression is so strong!
Such an elegantly graceful animal! I love the story behind this as well.
Beautiful lighting in this! Great depth of field as well!
I love how such an ordinary object can look so abandoned and lost in black and white. A very beautiful photo, that seems to tell a story of a little boy that lost his shoe.

Thanks for taking the time to look at this! And my contest will be coming along shortly, I have been so busy lately! Sorry!