Busting a Nut
by scrum8

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or "a tough nut to crack"

On the Cutting Edge
by karmat

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or "who cut the cheese"

Can of worms
by kiwiness

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oh gross - do I REALLY have to give a ten to this - guess so- ugh

Windmill at sunset
by Azrifel

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Beautiful!!

Worship comes from the heart... Church building is optional!
by smellyfish1002

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This study of light and shodow is so well done that it seems a shame you put it on a wood grain background. The wood is distracting, the wrong color and, in particular, obscures the shape of the cross on the curch. If you had shot this on a plain backbround I'm sure it would have placed in the top 20. Worth reshooting for your personal portfolio! giving a 6, wishing I could have given a 9 or 10.

Circle of Family
by WILDBLUE

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Photographs of other peoples arrt tend not to score well. You have added your own creative stamp to this sculpture though. It bothers me that it feels slightly tilted. Also it is slightly ff center, not enough off center to make it seem like you deliberately place it to the side to make use of negative space. Such a slight placement looks like a mistake. try moving the figures over even more.

Sacred Grounds
by heida

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On my monitor this image is very dark. Photos that are intended to be dark, for mood for example) do not score well because of the wide variety in monitor calibrations amoung voters. If it looks dark to you, you can be sure that it will look even darker to many others. If you want a better score, stick to a safer brightness. If you love the image dark, be satisfied with it and ignore the score. Try looking at this on several different monitors to be sure that it looks the way it did on yours. Have you recalibrated your monitor recently?

Still Waters
by amsmyth

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A perfect ten! This is abolutley gorgeoues. Maybe I love it because this is exactly the kind of place I would call sacred. These colors are the colors I grew up with. The water is so still and the reflection so perfect. A recent thread asked "when is it effective to break the rule of thirds?" This is a perfect example of when. When the symetry of an image is so powerful that it belongs dead center. But then you have the little house and the little reflected green tree in the thirds positions, balancing each other and creating a cross diagonal to counter the diagonal crack in the rock. Perfect emotion, perfect moment, perfect composition, perfect technical execution. perfect (did I say that already?)

Black Corsett
by Natator

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I like the sepia one better - though I love both

Madonna
by thelsel

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This is exquisite- I am generaly a "figurine hater" but you have done a wonderful job with this statue - I am also stingy with my ten but this has to be a ten. The lighting, the angle, the cropping, the colors, the background - all lovley.