Cracked...
by agwright

Comment:
I love the texture and the composition (foreground/background especially). Well done. One of my top picks.

Rays of night
by tkalect

Comment:
The thumbnail grabbed my attention and the photo didn't let me down. Well conceived and executed. Among my top picks.

"Block" On An Old Sailing Ship
by Drake

Comment:
Brilliantly focused. Terrific color. All technicalities are well above professional grade. Among my top picks.

Part of me
by bobdaveant

Comment:
I initially gave this a pass based on thumbnail skimming. However, when I opened it ... it was a "wow" photo. I love the pixelated style. Unusual, but not so avant guard as to be jarring. Intense emotionally. Colors are fantastic. Composition is spot on. In fact all the technicals are right. Congratulations. Among my top picks.

No strings attached
by arngrimur

Comment:
Love this abstract image. Colors and textures work exceptionaly well together. Composition may be the best in the challenge. Among my top 5 picks.

Hard Drive
by dogz

Comment:
I looked at this, and looked, and looked. I was about to request a DQ and saw that it had been validated. What a fantastic capture. I hope you'll tell us how you did it! Among my top 5.

Upon a Curvy Shore
by letenele

Comment:
Beautiful image. Well composed and captured. IMO it is a bit too bright and would benefit from slightly greater contrast, but as-is, it's among my top 5. Congratulations. This could well ribbon.

welcome to my little world
by hopper

Comment:
This started out a 5 in my preliminary voting and after successive views got bumped 1 by 1 to a 10. I love the simplicity of the photo. The composition is perfect. Focus and DOF are spot on. Colors are fantastic. This feels like a ribbon winner to me. Congratulations.

Go South
by jonr

Comment:
I like this a lot but would like it better if there weren't such a halo around the subject. Maybe it was just like this when the shutter clicked but it feels like a post processing error ... to much dodge and burn. Or maybe too little around the edges.

Hey - Look At That!
by Drake

Comment:
A few weeks ago I took a bunch of seagull-in-flight pictures in San Francisco. I now have a better appreciation of how hard they are to get right. This one is quite interesting because the bird is in a non-typical flight attitude. Well captured. Well focused. The halo around the bird is distracting and lowers my score somewhat. I don't know if the original resolution would stand up to it but I think if the bird filled more of the frame, it would be better.