Graceful Departure
by connie

Comment:
Oooooh. So peaceful and beautiful. I love the sky and the water and the reflections. Awesome!

Solitude
by p_johns

Comment:
Amazing color and texture in the sky! It keeps my attention for a long time. It feels 3d. Fabulous!

The Hornet
by rhipster

Comment:
Incredible sharp focus. Brilliant color. Bravo.

Photoreception
by JPR

Comment:
Okay, I've got to hand it to you, this is a fabulous photograph, even though I was not impressed by it during voting. It really looks like you simply took a picture of a page in a book. That's amazing and difficult to achieve, but it also still doesn't provide any indication to me that you really created it "from scratch". Just my feelings about this image, I know most people differ.

Mercy
by hopper

Comment:
Good, but the little highlights in the center of her pupils is kind of distracting.

Peace Please
by Sonifo

Comment:
Cool! Simple composition, good contrast and textures. Nice even space around the elements of the image provide a nice balance.

Prowlin'
by karmat

Comment:
A nice picture, but no wow factor and the composition isn't too exciting to me. Unless this was taken in the jungle, it's a shot that anyone with a camera could take.

Ethan, Dirty Face and All
by smellyfish1002

Comment:
Cool image with a bit of a wow factor, the sharp eyes and high contrast catch your attention. But the eyes are significantly oversharpened, IMO, or maybe the whites are just too white, and it throws off the balance a little.

Nice B&W though, it really feels like an image from the 1920s or something.

Rachel
by dsa157

Comment:
Just a little blown out on her right side of her face, but I'm sure you'll get plenty of commenters telling you that. :) I love the B&W processing here. Great contrast and textures. Perfect focus, the eyes are alive and intense.

The Ruin
by e301

Comment:
Wow, this almost feels like a painting. The textures in this image are fantastic. The building is really interesting, but the weather REALLY makes it perfect.

I really am interested to see what kind of postprocessing you did. Did you dodge and burn? Vignetting? I just love the 'feel' of the image but can't quite nail down why.

Just goes to show that it pays to go out in the so-called 'nasty' weather when most photogs stay home!