Gothic Mausoleum
by md8speed

Comment:
Great job for your first attempt at dodge and burn. Congrats!

After merging the sky back into the rest of the image you might have wanted to clone out the haloing around the edge building in places. You may have left that there intentionally, but to my eye it looks like incomplete post processing.

Ash Wednesday
by e301

Comment:
Wonderfully melancholic scene. Just perfect. Congrats on the high placing.

A View Of The Great Mausoleum At Forest Lawn
by fulgent

Comment:
Nicely done. It looks a little overprocessed for my taste, but I do like the way the building and sky turned out. It gives the composition a very dramatic look.

Graveyard Cross
by shutterfly

Comment:
I really like this one. Congrats on the coveted and highly sought after "green" ribbon. LOL.

A View to Die For !
by wilks

Comment:
Congrats on your first ribbon... may there be many more to come.

In nomine patris et filii spiritu sancti
by sfboatright

Comment:
Congrats on your first win... and a pretty red ribbon at that. :)

Lux Eternae
by Rgarcia

Comment:
Congrats on the blue for an excellent image... amazing what a few clouds can do for a composition! Great job!

Clique
by Sonifo

Comment:
WHAT?!!! This only got 5.6?

Wow. I can hardly believe it. Sometimes voters just flat out blow it. I guess that they thought it failed to "meet the challenge".

This is one of my top three choices for that challenge and is a fantastic image. Looks to me like only 4 other people in that challenge recognized great photography when they saw it. :)

Sonoran Starlight
by kirbic

Comment:
Congrats on the well deserved ribbon!!!! Have to come back to Arizona to get more ribbon winners.

Winter Wonderland
by justin_hewlett

Comment:
The image shows a bit of the jaggies along some edges. The clouds on the left lack detail and are overexposed. Overall it is a nice scene and good picture. I suspect the lower score is not so much because of the picture itself, but because it was not "surreal" enough for the challenge to some voters. I scored it 6.