speedo
by Skip

Comment:
Just stunning, the B&W is a nice touch, and thanks for posting the original.I think I like the hands in the shot even better. Both are very nice, how did you get the shot?

zesty
by mycelium

Comment:
Pretty shot Damon, simple and straightforward.Your work has been so rich and quirky lately that I would never have guessed this was yours. Sounds like you aimed at a top ten and hit the mark.Is this gonna be a new direction or more in the way of an experiment?

Flight
by SDW

Comment:
I like the idea of the border, but this seems a bit heavy. I like the more dynamic framing here with the use of the angle. Any shot of a bird the week after the wildlife challenge was going to be hammered on the basis of the "seen that before" deduction. Not fair, not warranted, but not unexpected.

Dangerous romance
by anibal187

Comment:
Silly, but alot of fun. The flash is too harsh to show off the little furball's fur and it makes ugly reflections in real and glass eyes. That patch of open backround in the upper left seems a waste.

Enter Romeo
by aerogurl

Comment:
The top of the text is blown and the uppermost part of the filter is outside the focal range. The idea is a classic (i.e. used alot but still good) and I like the clever use of the text and the centerness. Rotated square and with more carefull lighting would have helped a nice image score better

Lost Romance
by nephoto

Comment:
the framing seems too sparse, I realise that you were going for the lost and lonley look, but the image leaves my eye hungry for more. Technically the twig closest to us is a bit blown out and the over all composition might have been helped by darker blacks.

Amor est vitae essentia
by kiwiness

Comment:
Tell me you didn't dodge the edges here, because the subject is handled tastfully, with just a bit of heat and the lightng is almost perfect (the man's hair is a bit blocked up) and the composition of the models with strong diagonals pulling the eye through the frame is all so good that this will ribbon. So I hope you did those falling off edges with lighting and no dodging because I'd like to see this with a blue ribbon and not under a pink stripe.

Eagle1.jpg
by halcyon

Comment:
I like your other entry better as a photograph, but it was so clearly a zoo shot that I think this one which could have been shot in nature would have scored better. It would benfit from a bump in saturation and a bit of shadow filter to bring out the feathers on the chest.

Bass Harbor Light
by Neil

Comment:
I look at this and think, there is so much more i could be doing with my wide angle lens. An amazing display of subtle shadows and colors, a nice reprive from the supersaturations.

Migration Interupted
by ellamay

Comment:
A stunning peice, i can almost hear the hoofbeats. Some of the otherwise lovely shots in this challenge lacked a verb, this almost suffers from too much action!