Round Island
by BrianR

Comment:
You have REALLY got to watch the oversharpening here, the halos around the leaves and on the horizon are unbelievably aggressive... It's a nice scene, though.

Thrill
by Dax-

Comment:
Congrats on top 10. Creativity rewarded!

Thrill
by Dax-

Comment:
Congrats on top 10. Creativity rewarded!

Nature's Beauty
by Marjo

Comment:
Very nice. Congrats on ribbon!

mystic river
by arngrimur

Comment:
Wonderful! Moody wins! And my version of moody almost made top 20, so there's hope for us all! Congrats!

Early morning Blues
by Xilebo

Comment:
Man yer on a ROLL. Glad to see this do well! Lovely shot.

The World In Infrared.
by marbo

Comment:
This looks less like infrared and more like an old, faded C-6 print. The effect is quite lovely, as an effect, but the image itself suffers from lack of a subject or any sort of compositional dynamic to hold our interest.

Spring's Bounty
by Judith Polakoff

Comment:
Almost completely without anythign to focus on, almost totally subject-less, this image becomes all about the muted sense of light, with even the colors downplayed (the temptation to shif them up in saturation must have been hard to resist). I like it quite a lot, but I suspect it is not faring well at the hands of the voters. From me, a 7.

Swan Lake
by Stagolee

Comment:
The horizon running downhill to the right and the strange lack of luminosity in what should, by rights, be a hauntingly luminous scene detract from this very well seen and basically very beautiful image. 6 from me.

Wind Effects
by beamsclan

Comment:
This is quite beautiful and well-seen. I have two nits, basically:

1. There's visible evidence of oversharpening all along the horizon on the left. There are zeveral ways to fix thisin PS, including just using less sharpening; I don't think the image needs to be this sharp, certainly not in the sky/tree area. You could have made a selection of the foreground dune only and just sharpened that area very profitably.

2. The placement of the tree is distinctly arbitrary, it leaves an area to the right that's quite uncomfortable to my eye. I have tried cropping out half of that area, bringing the right edge closer to the tree, and IMO this improved the composition dramatically.

Regardless, it's a strong entry and I hope it does well.