Hands of Despair
by RLS

Comment:
The hand on the bottom looks deformed the way it is posed. The way the shadow is on the face it makes the nose look deformed also. A little too dark. Personally don't think with hands as subject you should have cropped part of the left hand off. Would bea 4 in my book. PTL

Au Natural
by RiderGal

Comment:
Would be "Au Natural" had it been in natural skin tones, and would have been worth about 3 or more points over as is. Good composition just needs better execution. PTL

Attachment
by kandyj

Comment:
The skin tones are beautiful here. You can see so much difference in the three hands. The strength in dad's, gentleness in mom's, and trusting and innocence in baby's. This speaks volumns. If I could score would be a ten. Technically it is right on and speaks emotions. PLT

Yatzee!
by Azrifel

Comment:
Really and truly it is not a yatzee. All the 4s are not on the top. I do play yatzee and kissmet. Love both games. I do like the arrangement of the dice on the felt background and the crop. What I want to know is how many rolls did it take to get this and what did the one in the air land on? You sure had to have the luck of the irish to get this roll. Looks like the middle 3 might have stayed with the 4 showing when they stopped, but did the first and last. You lucked out. I should give you a 10 for the roll but I can't be THAT nice. So here's an 8. PTL

Four of a Kind
by kandyj

Comment:
I'm going to cry. This looks like such a loving family. This is wonderful and so good in black and white. You can see the love in the gentle touch of the hands.. This is the first 10 I hve ever given a black & white. PTL

Serrated
by bil99

Comment:
Unique, unique, unique, unique. Is the blade a little rusted? Shame, for shame. There's really nothing you can say about this photo. You know yourself everything technically is correct. And it is different from the other photos. My only complaint, mine alone, is is doesn't have personal appeal for me, so I can't give it a 10. A 9 has that too. So it must be an 8. PTL

Reflections
by Jean

Comment:
What is this reflections of? Flower pot pebbles? This is absolutely beautiful. I just wish you had not cropped of the ends of the two spoons. I would rather you cropped off some of the handles. But I'm still trying to figure out how you did this unless you turned the picture upside down after taking the photo from the bottom side as you held the spoons over a bowl of pebbles. I just think I came up with a way to do it. This is a 10 in my book, and I bet a lot of others too. PTL

"21"
by autool

Comment:
What am I missing? Is it that 3 diamonds plus 1 spade make 4? You can tell that I don't gamble. If that is how you met the challenge, ok. The photo otherwise is right on technically with good colors, good focus, nice crop. You sure are holding those cards tightly. Doesn't appeal to me but it is a good shot and worthy of a 7. PTL

Quadriped
by Parentx

Comment:
Strange. This sure jumps out at you. Nice negative. No bad looking feet, as feet go. It's a shame your arms couldn't have disappeared more, and the legs just a little more. Still a very good shot. Worth an 8. PTL

Wise Monkeys Plus One
by gerard

Comment:
you went to a lot of work for this one. Good job of focus, and I know that was hard. The shadows are hurting you a little and the wash out at the top of the blue background is distracting, it's got part of his hands. Cute monkey and cute photo. I like it and give it a 7. PTL