Macro that needs work
by Dirtypainter

Comment:
This may have been taken between 4:00 and 5:00 AM but there is nothing in the photo that relates to the spirit of the challenge.

a late-night/early morning snack
by nerdynotdirty

Comment:
This doesn't hold my interest. It is a common enough experience that folks can resonate with it, but when you take a photo of something common, you need something uncommon in the image to hold people's eye.

Just another night for a video game fan
by nlghttrain

Comment:
The dark area around the screen hints at details that might be there, but it is so dark, I can't make any of them out. My monitor is calibrated by the way. If I copy and paste the image into Photoshop, it brightens up somewhat. I am wondering if you saved the image in a color space other than sRGB (possibly B&W or Grayscale) which might account for it when it's displayed in my IE6 browser.

No Snooze Button
by GeneralE

Comment:
Without the title, I would not have been able to figure out what was being photographed. This is a matter of personal taste, but for me, I need something for my eye to rest on and I can't find anything here.

Turn. That. Light. Off.
by Nordlys

Comment:
This does a nice job conveying the emotion implied by the title. Well composed and leveled. It might be a bit oversharpened, at least to my taste, but the sharpening is effective at capturing the texture of the face. If advanced editing were available, I might have cloned out a few hot pixels, but they don't distract very much at all. Nicely done!

Absolute Still
by Skip

Comment:
Beautiful photo. I like the colors very much. Placement of the horizon and the house in the frame show a very good sense of design and balance. The direction of the camera relative to the rising sun does a nice job catching the dawn's gradient sky. I also like that you caught some stars ... they add a sense of scale to the photo that would be missing otherwise. In short, beautiful setting, beautiful time of day, beautifully captured. I expect it to ribbon.

Waxing Gibbous
by marbo

Comment:
Nice moon shot. From your corner of the world, your angle shows more craters than a similar moon shot in this challenge. Both shots have areas that look a little over sharpened.

Rays of Hope
by mystardream

Comment:
It may be the hill, but the photo gives the impression of being slightly tilted (down a bit on the right). Whether illusion or an actual tilt, rotating it CCW a little would have improved this in my opinion. Not sure I've ever seen a "Rays of Hope" greeting card catagory.

Thinking Of You
by woodsey

Comment:
I like the composition and colors of this. It has very good DOF. A stronger focus would have raised my vote a couple of points.

Journey to the Unknown
by elsapo

Comment:
Very creative! Among my top picks.