Midnight Sunrise
by LalliSig

Comment:
A surreal elegance, I could see this as a SciFi cover or on the cover of Science magazine, great colors and clarity.

Sparrow
by aguillory

Comment:
nice use of the rule of thirds. but given the quality of these open challenges submitting a bird shot (nothing against birds mind you) that isn't tack sharp will result in a score that could be a blow to your ego.

Early Morning Flight
by glad2badad

Comment:
wow. lovely use of black and white, great framing. I can only imagine how good this would look as a big print.

Peacock Love
by noraneko

Comment:
good composition and great subject capture. but the colors look flattened, the way I get if I use the shadow highlight tool a bit too much

Tumulus
by jjbeguin

Comment:
lovely feeling here, but I wish there was more detail in the lower third of the screen. Edited to a Landscape it would be perfect.

Chris Crossed
by seenosun

Comment:
I like this one better, the lines are more complex, the legs make strong leading lines, and the hip is especially good. Both suffer from a fall off of light at the feet, and the highlights on the face are a bit too hot.

Summer's End
by AlexSaberi

Comment:
a very intersting editing job, which works well. The rotation of the canvas to get the horizon line to work might be OK because the tree could have grown sideways but in combination with the figure, at the same odd angle it hurts the image. I do like the weird sky you got in the partial de-sat.

Dance with me!
by Judi

Comment:
I l everything about thish shot but the tree. The colors and the play of light on the clouds and the grass are first rate, but the tree is so small in the frame that its form needs to be iconic, very tree like, with a trunk holding the crown into the sky. The tree here, could be a shrub since all we see is a blob of green, and it makes the scale uncertain. It may be a personal prefrence, but for me it knocks this fine shot out of ribbon teritory.

Lone Tree on the Hill
by lifternessjt

Comment:
like my image, with such sparse details it is easy to go overboard on the USM and get haloing at the skyline. A bit of dodging in the sky would have lent more interest to the pure tone of the sky.

single tree
by Len Scap

Comment:
The tree belnds intot the backround a bit too much and the focus is a bit soft, but nice composition, and lovely colors