At the Water's Edge
by amsmyth

Comment:
Greetings from the Critique Club

Initial thoughts / My opinion
Fits well to the challenge, well selected place, only the composition could be improved to give it a wow effect

Composition/Content
The content you showed us is very well picked: the ice plate has some wonderful curves and reflections, especially the strong reflection at the lower tip is great. So your choice was excellent. The white spots on the ice are a little disturbing but were probably unavoidable.
The water in the lake appears a little undefined: it's not clear enough to see well what's under the surface but also not reflecting enough to be just a smooth, homogeneous background for the wonderful ice plate. The ripples, which probably originate from water drops of the nice tip are a strong element. Sad that they are so weak.
The image comes somewhat short in the composition/cropping: the shore that can be seen at the top and the lower left do disturb and lead the viewer's eyes away from the ice. Getting closer or cropping way tighter at the top, left and bottom would have been a considerable improvement. Also consider the use of rule of third here.

Camera work -technically
To me focus and exposure are set very good, maybe a polarizer (or if you used one a different angle) might have brought in some more contrast

Digital Processing - Technical
No particular issue here. Contrast enhancement might have been an improvement

Fits the challenge
It sure does as stated above.

Good luck for you further submissions

As this is one of my first Critique Club critiques, it would be helpful to get some feedback if you like.

Disneyland's Gateway to Fantasy
by dr rick

Comment:
Greetings from the Critique Club

Initial thoughts - My opinion
Well-made night shot which has some problems to get the association with the challenge topic on the first glance.

Composition/Content
The nicely lit castle is captured very direct in full frame without any direction to strengthen the intention. The tree and the two bushes in the foreground are not used as compositional element but rather appear as obstacles to the free view to the castle. Same holds for the reflection of the castle in the lake: because it's only showing a small part of the castle, it's hard to recognize it as for what it is.

A lower position, using the bushes as frame and zooming closer to the gate might have been way better. It is not necessary to get the whole castle. Cutting of parts of an object most times increase the interest, because the viewer can use his/her imagination to fill in the rest in his mind.

Camera work -technically
No particular issue here. Exposure is good, maybe only a tad on the dark side. Focus is good as well.

Digital Processing - Technical
Might have been sharpened a bit more.

Fits the challenge
As stated above, boundary or better transition is not easy to see on the first, even the second glance.

Good luck for you further submissions

PS: As this is my first Critique Club critique, it would be helpful to get some feedback if you like.

Where two worlds meet....
by byshen

Comment:
Also congrats form my side for the first ribbon!
Way to go! Nice to have it here in the frontpage for the upcomming week.

Death After Life or Life After Death ?
by Charles Philip

Comment:
Well suited concept, the image might only just need some compositional enhancements.
The dividing line should be rotated a bit to the left to make it vertical and the dark part in the upper left corner disturbs.
Light is set very good, especially on the left rose. The right, dead rose is somewhat undefined: hard to indentify it as a rose if one would only see it.
What I like is that the red rose crosses the boarder a littlebit and that you chose B&W of course. Good luck.

Waters Edge
by vernabeth

Comment:
While the landscape is very nice, expecially the colors, the image lacks of severe jpeg-artifacts (I'm probably not the first to tell you this). If this is due to the cameras resolution submit somewhat smaller images next time. Otherwise don't compress that strong, use the whole 150 kB given to us.

Edge of Bankruptcy
by PaulMdx

Comment:
Looks better then my account, and it's on the rise by 1% LOL!
The image needs the title to be understood for this challenge, but this applies for most entries this time, so it's OK.
Technically I like the B&W, the shallow DOF and the contrast, leading to the nice texture on the paper.
Good luck to you

Arrested Development. On The Edge of Punk.
by Evil_Munky

Comment:
Great concept and well executed. Only the punk part could be a little brighter. Switching the nicely textured background, so that the green one would contrast the dark cloth might have been better.
Anyway, good look with this great submission

Synergistic Snowflakes
by EddyG

Comment:
Congrats! Well deserved!
In the next weeks we will probably see many DPCer chasing snow flakes, including myself.

Test Your Snake-Phobia-Boundary !
by Mona

Comment:
Having access to such a great animal, you should have put more thought into composing the image instead of just a snapshot.
The car in the back, the wooden wall with the reflections disturb much. Also the skin colour is a little bit too red and overexposed.
However, with the title it fits the challenge well. A 5 from me.

Bordering walkway !
by tolovemoon

Comment:
It's a little to straight for me to get a high vote. While it for sure shows a border, I different angle might have imnproved the image very much. Also taking away the dirt might have been better.