Time to Quit and Create a Healthy Lifestyle Cause I'm....
by OneSweetSin

Comment:
A nice storyline. Congrats on your pregnancy. The lighting, composition, and color give this the feel of a snapshot, not an image into which a great deal of thought was invested.

Mend some fences
by geewhy

Comment:
A lot about this image is appealing to me, but I feel the composition is out-of-balance. There's not enough interest in the water to the left to sustain me, and the dynamics of the image are forcing me over there. I believe it would work better if the foreground were cropped so all of the third reflection from the right was visible, and only a bit more. Id this exact image were cropped to that more horizontal format, it would work better for me already; and if the picture had been framed that way, so there were more reeds at the top, it mught work better yet. Depends on what was up there, It's conceptually very nice.

Ash Tray
by wahsabi

Comment:
Gritty and even appropriately disgusting, but not entirely satisfactory as an image to me. I wish the left side weren't so washed out, it's seriously pulling my eye away from the focal point.

To live life to the fullest
by Cantique

Comment:
I find thisimage much stronger if it's cropped down from the top to eliminate all sky above the bar, and all trace of the horizontal bar to which the chains attach. The face is wonderful, the sharpness and tonalities are excellent. A solid entry.

To steal a ribbon from anyone!
by vtruan

Comment:
Damn, that hurts! The extreme indentatiuon on the finger gives this considrable immediacy. The light "raking" the trap's surface is lovely. The blocked-out curve of the thumb comes across as sloppy, not well-considered. The Faux resolution is amusing, as is the concept.

Resolve to Play Through the Blues
by fotodude

Comment:
A strong & original photo, but it would be a LOT stronger if we could see a bit more china nd nose beneath the hat, I think.

More Time With Dad
by cbeller

Comment:
A good resolution. Funny to see a candid sneak in here, LOL. The bit of arm showing under the sleeve lower left is an eyetrap for me The whole photo is a tad centered, as well. I find that if I crop in from the left so that sleeve is eliminated, the image is much more focused, we draw down ,ore easily to where the eyes are looking.

To find beauty in the simple things
by debitipton

Comment:
It "feels" to me like this was just an excuse to get a flower shot in, LOL. It's a hell of a nice flower shot and and I am scoring it well, butr I'd score it higher if it were somehow more tight to the challenge topic.

A new year with no regrets
by Jinjit

Comment:
High points for honesty, LOL. Let us drink life to the lees? Robinson Jeffers had in a poem "Even in the bitter less and sediment, new discovery may lie." This grows on me. I hadn't ranked it especially high in my first pass through, and I am bumping it up.

Wasting away in Resolutionville
by graphicfunk

Comment:
I can't wait to see the backstory on this one, LOL. The neck section lower left comes across as a chin bulge when it is combined with the skull, and this is a flaw for me. The clothing appears to be Camo, even if it's just shadows, and that's a bit chilling. All in all it's eerie, and well done.