my dream home
by pookey83

Comment:
straighten it

The Garden
by GinaRothfels

Comment:
Phew - alot of orange - don't need more orange in the border 7

Longhorn Ranch
by Anachronite

Comment:
Hello from the Critique Club-
I am slow and I have been holding your postcard hostage for a few days. Sorry.
I'm going to leave the lettering issue alone. Enough people commented on it and it know nothing about how to add lettering. And the other issue I have to get out of the way is a personal pet peeve: straighten the horizon. Whether or not your photo is straight and the fence is crocked, whenever you put a line that my mind interprets shoudl be level next to one picture edges, the picture will feel tilted.
Now the things I like, in no particular order. I love the colors, the muted browns look so nice together. The cattle and the ring and the fence are each a diffrent shade of brown/tan. Next I like the horns!! What a creative leading line? I like a leading line that brings the viewer back into the photograph, it helps the image to get the attention it deserves if the eyes travels back a few more times. Here the horns which are so dramatic anyways, create an interlocking pattern and link together in a wavy roller coaster circle to unite the image. I especially like how the horn in the front reaches right out to draw me in. I like the circular placement of the cows. I wish the green grass hadn't been there. I think if the dirt pit had extended right up to the fence there would have been less visual distraction and the cows would stand out better.
Great photo techinique all around, DOF, lighting. Maybe you could wake up the sleepy longhorn in front. Or maybe his bored expression makes his fate more poignant. This is a stockyard?

Spring Fever
by severin

Comment:
my favorite!

Natures Purple, Man's Yellow
by K-Rob

Comment:
straigten it so the flagpoles are upright - 7

sweet & sour
by Pep Ventosa

Comment:
could you make the border look more old fashioned to match? 7

Red Maple ~ Green Maple
by ladpupmoe

Comment:
too many distractions - try it on a more neutral background - do you need both kinds of seed pod? Either keep more in the frame or less, like this it just looks cut off.

Uh-Oh...
by GeneralE

Comment:
good point - I'm finding a lot of the gred/green images to be "off" color is this challenge.

Rain, Rain, Go Away!
by DougPaz

Comment:
Abdolutely gorgeous!!! Great work with color!!!! (but it shoulda won!)

The Hardest Times
by DavidLevin

Comment:
straighten your horizon - don't cut off his shoes - maybe increase the contrast - lots of emotion here - but not much "technique" - I like the locked door - then of course there is that issue of color....6