Sunspots
by Melethia

Comment:
Commenting as part of my Team Suck duties...

A beautiful capture. Congratulations on making 300 challenges. I love the flares/sunspots, the back lighting, and the most of all the emotion of this photo. Tilt is a negative for me, as is the prominence of the green pharmacy sign. One thing I have to say, Deb, don't change... we love you... look forward to seeing your next 300 challenge submissions.

Regal Beauty
by SteveJ

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Commenting as part of my Team Suck duties...

What can I say about this... um... bird is nice and sharp, good use of DOF makes the birds pop nicely. There's just not enough of interest to make this interesting enough to do well in a FS... I feel.

Country Nights
by colorcarnival

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Commenting as part of my Team Suck duties...

This was a bit hard done by in voting... without a doubt, deserved to be higher. Great contrast, and great capture... unconventional composition probably hurt it, and why did you crop the boys foot off? I like the unconventional composition, but the cropped foot disturbs me. Beautiful photo, who cares what the average DPC voter thinks. Well done.

Rain
by karmat

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I am absolutely shocked that this didn't do better with the voters. Nice and sharp in the centre, and the detail is great. I'd have lost the emptiness on the left, but that's me... and perhaps some of the OOF section of the leaf on the right... but as I said... me... I gave it a 7 during voting, and probably would have given it more if the centre was more of the photo.

A Stroll Down 4th Avenue
by Emerkaza

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Commenting as part of my Team Suck duties...

I quite like this photo and gave it a 6 in voting. Would have given it a 7 or 8 if something other than just the trees on the left was in focus. Great composition, great capture... just the focus hurt you big time I reckon.

The Ugliest Duckling
by skewsme

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Brave move submitting something "ugly" in a free study. Lucky to get the shots at all given your description, and I imagine you'd have been under some pressure to take the photos quickly... never know if mummy is close by... image is VERY top heavy, and the feet are OOF. Fortunate capture, but probably not the DPC enough, especially for a FS.

Off to War.....
by NikonJeb

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Commenting as part of my Team Suck duties...

Great photo Jeb. Capture the emotion and feel of the period in this photo. Could quite easily have been taken during the civil war. Can't suggest anything that could have done better/differently, really... not without making it a completely different photo, and then, it'd lose a lot, and probably wouldn't be better... just different.

Our Lady of the Waters
by posthumous

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"Oyster shells look like women"?

Sorry... I can't see it at all. This is a very different photo, but not surprising coming from our illustrious leader. Oh... I see it now... looked back at it to look for something intelligent to say, and I saw "our lady". Excellent! Unfortunately, I don't think most voters would give this enough time, or enough revisits to see it and perhaps this is part of the reason for the lowish score. I now wish I'd have given it more time, or came back to it during voting... but alas, it's only know I get the true message within your photo. Well done.

Summer's end
by snaffles

Comment:
Commenting as part of my Team Suck duties...

This is a wonderful photo... and reading the comment paulbtlw left you, there's not a single thing I disagree with there... but given this is my 500th comment on DPC, and I'm commenting on behald of Team Suck, I think I have to do a little more than just say "Ditto" or "What paulbtlw said"... so... in addition to your earlier comment, I'd like to add.

As I sit here, looking for more to say that hasn't been said, there's an almost 3-D quality to this image that makes these boys POP out of the screen. I'm almost expecting the image to start to pan around them Matrix style

As I've mentioned in one or more of the other Team Suck comments I've left for this Free Study, I've come to have a greater appreciation for the image during my time looking at it as I look for words for my comment. I suspect this experience may alter my voting habits, and I may be more generous with my time when voting. I often reassess my votes when I revisit photos on my commenting phase, but many images that I don't get to with comments don't get the benefit of the bump, merely because it takes so long for me to comment... perhaps because I'm a bit partial to these rambling type comments... which begin to talk about itself, i.e. the comment, instead of the image which is supposed to be the subject of the comment... concentration issues? Me? Never... what was I saying?.... oh yes... had I had the opportunity to get back to this image to comment while voting was still possible, I guarantee that this would have received a decent bump from me... probably of a proportion that would have got it up to "most under appreciated" consideration.

I'll end my ramble here... but before I move on to comment 501, I'll say... beautiful, fun photo. Well done.

A Capitol View
by levyj413

Comment:
Commenting as part of my Team Suck duties...

Beautiful ceiling. Image is nice and sharp and colours are good. I think the composition and tight crop hurt this though. My eye is immediately drawn to the centre circle, and not encouraged to explore the photo. Just doing a pseudo-crop with my browser (resize to cover the right 1/3) turns it into a spiral and automatically gets my eye exploring the entire image... and that's what you want give the detailed paintings or sculptures at the bottom of the dome. Just a thought.

Also, just had a quick look through your portfolio... you have some GREAT images there, particularly like some of the architecture stuff... so really, what am I thinking giving you advise...