Painting the Corners
by toddhead

Comment:
I suspect this is a completely fabricated image with a ball held in place and a picture of a pitcher pitching in the background, but you pulled it off very well and deserve a good score.

2 geese, different proportions
by lightpro1

Comment:
Nice composition, especially with the nice background but it suffers from the old digital camera ploy of focusing on the background and not the main subjects in the foreground. That is too bad. It would be a great pictures.

Unexpected Invitation
by Zoomdak

Comment:
Congratulations on a well deserved win. Nice to see an Oregon boy do good with a great Oregon landscape. :)

Brooklyn, NY - First warm day
by dimitrii

Comment:
Excellent use of negative space. Good clarity and color.

Portland, Oregon and Mt. Hood
by justine

Comment:
Classic view of Portland. Makes me miss Oregon.

Village Shops
by Olyuzi

Comment:
Well composed and good perspective. Curved walkway and differing storefronts adds considerable interest to the image. Since the foreground flowers hold such a prominent place in the composition they should be in better focus. That can easily be accomplished by selecting just the flowers only and applying a little unsharp mask to them.

Leaf Pile Leaps
by mijak

Comment:
Concept and framing of this image is good. This reminds me of jumping in piles of leaves when I was a kid. It is probably your camera but the overall quality of the image makes it look more like a snapshot. I don't know where you live but judging from what I can see here it looks rural and if it is I envy you.

twice lucky
by lakritstroll

Comment:
Framing of this image is fine but both color and grain makes it very harsh. The two dots, which are your main subjects, might be insects but it is very difficult to tell because of their size and relative poor focus.

Serendipity
by Dim7

Comment:
You have a very dramatic sky in this image. It completely overwhelms the foreground tree silhouettes. Getting closer to just one or two of the trees and allowing them just a little more prominent position in the frame might help. Their position in the frame would make all the difference in the world. You don't want to hide much of that beautiful sky. You want your silhouettes to become more a part of it. A little color adjustment of reds and yellows could make the sky even more dramatic.

Spring (unedited)
by spydr

Comment:
A very nice image with good DOF that is framed well. Some increase in brightness and contrast coupled with 10-15 percent saturation of reds to bring out the ladybug more and more cyan followed by applying some noise reduction and a touch of unsharp mask would give the image better color and much more visual impact.