Feline love
by arpita

Comment:
Way to go Arpita. Fine shot!

Far From Home
by scalvert

Comment:
What?!?!? No multiple images? Lawdy me! Congrats on a well-deserved ribbon.

Pines
by Elemmennope

Comment:
extraordinary texture! well seen! Perhaps processing for a little more luminosity would help kick it up a notch.

Wall of Glass
by Elemmennope

Comment:
The tonalities/luminance are lovely here. The reflection and the figure add a lot. The terribgly skewed perspective isn't helpful, though. Have you tried photoshop's "skew" tool to clean it up?

The American
by Elemmennope

Comment:
This is REALLY sly! One of the best titles I've ever seen. The image is very nice too, a unique perspective. I don't care for the heaviness of the framing, myself, but that's just me.

Colored Reflection
by Rikki

Comment:
What groggy said: you got to desat the exposed part of the rock as well. Then you're good to go.

It's a nice shot. Technically, I am having problems with the vertical shadow on the right wall falling onto the adjacent plane. It's impossible to tell where one wall ends and the other bgegins, so the juxtaposition of these two planes is fuzzily-expressed. Had the light been allowed to come around a hair more to your left, you could have it raking what's now the shadowed surcae, and this would be MUCH more expressive of the shapes & volumes here.

Palm Sunset
by aboutimage

Comment:
The horizon is not level. If you want to maintain the vertical orientation of the palms and level the horizon, do this: drag down a guideline to the horizon so you an see true level. Then "select all" and choose edit/transform/skew and actually skew the image up on the right side until the horizon levels out. Crop as needed.

This iamge, too, is seriously oversharpened; you can see distinct haloes around the dark/light intersections. You need to fine-tune your shartpening process. One thing that helps is to blow the image up so a light/dark intersection is prominent at significant magnification; then you wille asily be able to see when the haloing starts. It also helps to create a new layer from BG, name it "sharpen", and do your sharpening on that layer; youc an then fade the layer as needed to get the perfect amount of sharpening, if you oversharpen a tad to allow fading. It's what I do.

R.

Cottage Dreams
by Joey Lawrence

Comment:
Good grief. Apocalypse redux. Where others see beauty and serenity, Joey Lawrence finds intimations of bloodshed and terror to come in the dark night of the dying soul.

Just
by Joey Lawrence

Comment:
and he's OFF to the RACES! Thank goodness this is illegal processing :-) Nice to see you doing somethign right out of the box that you couldn't possiblky do with the other camera. Remarkably low noise here.

Three Bamboo
by aboutimage

Comment:
blown-out highlights and afressive oversharpening make this image a little harsh for my tastes. The compositon is nice, and the sense of "circular blur" on the BG surface is really sweet.