Saw Mill Pond in Infrared
by brownsm

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Congrats on your first ribbon. May there be many more in your future. Given it is only your second submission and your first placed 5th that is very likely. Keep up the great work.

Cherika
by whiteroom

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Congrats on your blue and new personal highest scoring image. Your ability to capture the human condition within your pictures rivals Librodo's and your style has become very recognizable. Great win with a great image.

Skeleton Defence
by Falc

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You dirty dog! Ya got me, but at least you did it with a great picture.

Quite Perplexing
by Coley

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Congratulations on another blue and personal best score. That is quite an achievement, especially considering what you've already accomplished.

Unlike most images these days, the technicals didn't win it for you. What did it is nailing the challenge theme perfectly yet adding supporting elements that nailed the theme as well. You hit the voter twice in one image.

Reviewers could easily identify your two unrelated items, the chair and bicycle. Suspending them in the air was a stroke of genius. It immediate drew attention to them AND added a supporting element of unrelatedness at the same time. Striking the John Steed "Avengers" pose further directed attention to your two main elements and added a second element of supporting unrelatedness. For those remembering that was a quirky show. That fit perfectly, hence a score of 7.7!

'Iron Butterfly' Rejected Album Art idea #14
by tate

Comment:
Congrats on another great placing for a really fine shot. Must be something about the name 'Davidson'. LOL. Now you are ahead of me ribbonwise. :) Keep up the great photos.

Peering to Infinity
by DrAchoo

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Congratulations once again, Jason... you've had a great run of artistic inspiration lately. You understand well how to connect with viewers, particularly through your use of color and attention to detail. What will you do for an encore?

View from Ecola Point, Sunset
by Bear_Music

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Congrats on the high placing for this super image and another 7+ image. You superbly extracted the great beauty out of this view. Top notch technicals, as always. Cannon Beach, Oregon has provided a lot of inspiration for high placing images recently. Two in the top four in this challenge.

Old Barn and Fall Sky
by bbower1956

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Beautifully captured dramatic sky and building. Meets challenge exceptionally well. Foreground oversharpening acts as a distraction.

Holsten - The taste can drive you crazy
by Bolti

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Terrific concept. Great expression. Exceptional technical execution. Gotta be one of the best of the challenge. Kudos to you!

Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner
by JackRyan

Comment:
Ahhhhh, yes... a well balanced daily diet! I didn't know you were a health nut.

Creative idea. DPCers always like humourous creativity. Lighting on the bottles is just fine. The muted blue backgound works very well with the bottles and its lighting is well balanced. Usually having the subject that close to a wall isn't such a good idea but in this case it works because of the light reflections from the bottles adding to background interest.

Color is a little weak. Saturating that gold and adding a bit more contrast would give it more punch. The biggest technical issue you must overcome first, though, is with the foreground... it is overexposed. That can be reduced nicely with Shadow/Highlight in CS2 or with twiddling a variety of basic legal adjustments in PS7. The detail is there, you just need to bring it out. The foreground is an issue in any case because it looks artificial, especially where the sand meets the wall. Adding some plant greenery would add more interest to the composition and maybe cover up the sand/wall seam. ;)

Looks like dinner is either slightly tilted left or lens distortion is making it look like it. That is a slight distraction.