White beauty
by arpita

Comment:
Congratulations on the Red. Your bokeh strongly supports your main subject. Having it blend into it is a stroke of genius.

Autumnal Fern
by Simms

Comment:
Congrats on the Blue. Here is proof that simple elegance can still win.
Looks like October is your month, to bad it is over now. LOL!

Silent Sentinel
by two_az

Comment:
Looks like South Mountain Park to me. I miss Phoenix.

mazzo
by tate

Comment:
Great technicals, composition, sharpness. Good job. If you want, you can get pure circular bokeh if you have your lens aperture completely open.

Shrub Leaves
by eaglebeck

Comment:
Tecnically superior image. Very well composed, incredible sharpness to the leaves and great bokeh. I'll be interested to see how this image compares to my own submission. Yours is the better photograph. Basically we did the same thing, went for the 'little circles' with an OK but nothing spectacular foreground main subject. I suspect you were trying to do the same thing as me, make the bokeh as strong or stronger as the main subject itseld.

Eye Spy
by scalvert

Comment:
Interesting take on the challenge theme. Nicely executed and well composed. Would have been nice to see both eyes but that was probably difficult enough to capture as is. :)

Fall Flower
by Citadel

Comment:
Pleasing smooth bokeh on a nice floral subject. Image appears very flat so you might want to consider upping the contrast. Warm tones are OK, but it weakens the green color of the leaves considerably, so you might have overdone it. In images like this you might want to try out 'autocontrast', 'autocolor' and/or 'autolevels' adjustments first with your image editor if it has the ability to do that. You would not necessarily accept those adjustments but they will give you an idea where the weaknesses of an image might be. Typically, after post processing you will normally see little or no change applying those functions.

Not so delicious
by veganmegan23

Comment:
Good sharpness with the tomatoes and the attempt at desaturation for further highlighting is a good idea. It nicely separates it from your background bokeh.

Unfortunately the remaining reds in the other areas of the image are highly distracting and the bokeh support for your main subject is weak. Composition could be improved by off setting the main subject more and cropping it closer.

Staring Into The Abyss
by Mrvile

Comment:
Excellent high quality macro. Sharpness is exceptional and you captured a good pose. I wanted to do something similar in my bokeh entry and even tried, but could not get sufficient depth of field to get the insect in sufficient focus and get the bokeh I was after.

Bokeh Wokeh
by ajschel

Comment:
Since they are overdone here I'm generally not a big fan of desaturated images but you've done an exceptional job with this one. The quality of the B&W is superb and the tonality on your colors is very good. It has a bit to much foreground out-of-focus in the lower left and that acts as a distraction from the rest of the image.