Anne
by daisydavid

Comment:
Very well done - beautiful lighting and I particularly like that you have chosen to include the hands.

Someone Already Took A Bite of My Cookie
by pmichaud

Comment:
I like your slightly downward POV, I think that works really well.

_0322
by MinsoPhoto

Comment:
Excellent expression - if this were my son he'd be pulling a face for sure.

Looking At Me
by gsal

Comment:
This is tremendous. An imaginative and effective crop too.

Snow Leopard
by Alain

Comment:
Looks as good as anything that adorns my Apple Mac screens.

Flight
by xianart

Comment:
I'm going through the entries, stopping at those images I feel have had the benefit of an unconventional eye and dwelling a little longer to try to see and appreciate what you saw. This is one of those images.

Positives: Fantastic light you have here and your editing has made the most of it. A nice moment captured - I can almost feel the child's excitement from here. Your decision to use a vignette was, in my opinion, inspired - it really, really suits the image.

Critical stuff: Perhaps it need straightening a touch?

Overall: I really like this.

Mamma Mia!
by LN13

Comment:
I'm going through the entries, stopping at those images I feel have had the benefit of an unconventional eye and dwelling a little longer to try to see and appreciate what you saw. This is one of those images.

Positives: Larry, I like a number of elements in this image, the clarity of the signs in particular and the dominance of the Sean Combs billboard. The toning is excellent too - you have contrast in all the right places.

Critical stuff: I don't think this is as powerful as your October Free Study entry - the inclusion of the heads detracts from the image for me - I liked the other because it felt like I had just been helped to look up, to notice things.... Here I feel more like on of the masses... head forward, eyes down, move forward.

Overall: Nice, but for, it doesn't compare favourably with the other image.

Peinture de paysage
by bubeltrubel

Comment:
I'm going through the entries, stopping at those images I feel have had the benefit of an unconventional eye and dwelling a little longer to try to see and appreciate what you saw. This is one of those images.

Positives: Really lovely shot with very brave bold toning - I like that. The clarity of the top of the tree works really well when placed against the misty backdrop. The painter below the canopy transform the image from a fairly vanilla landscape into something almost cinematic. I want to know what those structures are on the other side of the tree.... to leave this ambiguous ads to the image. I'd have cloned them out - you were right to keep then in.

Critical stuff: The bush to the right - I use my hand to crop the image just to the left and the whole image seems more polished to me.

Overall: Very nicely made.

journey
by LevT

Comment:
I'm going through the entries, stopping at those images I feel have had the benefit of an unconventional eye and dwelling a little longer to try to see and appreciate what you saw. This is one of those images.

Positives: There is something about this simple scene that just stops me in my tracks - it is so beautifully captured, so honest, so lacking in fuss, so everyday, so slice-of-life. There is beauty in that simplicity - I overwork my images to near death so I feel I have learnt something just by looking at this. It is really transportive too - I feel like I am there.

Critical stuff: Nothing at all.

Overall: Lovely, subtle, even masterful shot.

Breathe
by njsabs

Comment:
I'm going through the entries, stopping at those images I feel have had the benefit of an unconventional eye and dwelling a little longer to try to see and appreciate what you saw. This is one of those images.

Positives: Jennifer, this is a lovely image - I've seen it before - 1x? The serenity of the subject (your daughter) and the title lead the viewer to really believe her lungs are full of liquid. The complete neutrality of the picture lets us overlay our own scenarios - from mermaid to casualty. Of course the composition, the tones, the light are all super. Where were you when shooting this?

Critical stuff: Nothing

Overall: Really interesting and well made work.