Natural
by Bud

Comment:
This is a nice portrait. Good lighting and an honest expression. It's well framed. The only thing that isn't perfect is the processing. It looks like compression artifacts and over sharpened. I'm giving it a five, thought I'd give the reason for the score.

True to nature
by terje

Comment:
It's pretty with the blues but it looks to much as if it's just a regular picture taken for any other challenge. I've seen the smooth water shots a lot. The oversharpened upper left rock is really distracting. Other than that, if it was another challenge, I'd probably give you a high score.

Floral Study
by EddyG

Comment:
Water drops on glass? I hadn't thought of that before. The whites are pleasant without becoming a distraction by being to hard on the eyes. Thanks for entering. Can't wait to read the notes.

The Delivery
by GolferDDS

Comment:
Photo or ps, it still has a nice feeling to it and I'm a mt dew drinker, too.

Still LIfe With Pears
by dsidwell

Comment:
The restricted use colors is good as well as the textures. What I find myself doing is looking at whatever it is that the bowl is resting on. It has some great texture to it. This looks almost more from the Renaissance tradition with the precisely outlined fruit and the modeling of the fruit and bowl.

pines at sunset
by ursula

Comment:
Looks like a sheet of aluminimum. Good clear colors and an uncomplicated composition. A superb tenchnical study and nice to look at.

Stroboscopic Flowers
by Jacko

Comment:
Just a fun picture.

Lumiere de bougie
by graphicfunk

Comment:
Really lovely. Yhe candle is perfect.

Radiant
by Sonifo

Comment:
The colors and background are just lovely. The foreground suffers a little from not enough blurring or not enough sharpness. It's sorta in between and makes me think it would have been better with a lot more focus or a lot less.

Sophisticated Travesty
by xtabintun

Comment:
If you are going to poke fun at the masses, do it well. The drawings are visual enough to get your point across without having to leave the outside area as a hint to the viewers. Fill the frame and I like thatcloudthere's idea of having the shadows come towards the camera. I'd even think a flashlight beaming out from behind the sun's position would have been fun. A lower camera angle would help to. And think of what you could do to get that heavily manipulated burn/dodge look in the sky.
It's a good statement about how you feel about the voter's choices. Have you considered why you want to participate?