Towers
by Manic

Comment:
I also took tis shot, for both this and for the architecture challenges - although, to be precise, I probably shot from around two yards in front and a touch to the left of where you stood. I also took a version which included the building to the right of the church - a mid-thirties small office block, though in an ordinary City style, as i thought it added a progression of age that I liked the idea of. I didn't submit those; I think i thought that it'd be done by others, and also I wanted something less obvious (not directly a criticism), and I rather liked the other shot I had by the end of the day. congratulations on your placing and score. Oh, and of course the Wb doesn't need to be sorted.

On the way back
by jjbeguin

Comment:
Your sense of composition remains an object lesson to us all - in fact, an object lesson to any photographer I could think of. Proper photography.

Hanging Out
by Jacko

Comment:
Really marvellous. Tonality, composition, detail, focus - all expertly caught. Very graceful indeed.

Winthrop Museum (WA)
by Beetle

Comment:
I can see why it would be a personal favourite - that light is certainly gorgeous. I find the framing/cropping uncomfortable - can't see what you've kept at the bottom of frame that requires the clipping of the windmill like that. It would benefit, to my eye, from some work to calm the very bright areas of sky toward the horizon - the blue becomes a touch pasty and washed out there. The tonality of tthe wood work is well caught, and the sense of organisation.

Haunting Sunset
by vtruan

Comment:
I remember this from the forums ... though I don't remember the weirdness image left - with the other branches there one suspects a cloning accident, but i cannot say. An extraordinary moment. There are artefacts from what appears to be very very heavy sharpening, which is a pity in my eyes, as they make the silhouette too attention-grabbing, and odd. Good shooting though.

Sunflower
by atsxus

Comment:
Beautiful sense of motion and colour. In such a graphicly styled image I would have certainly done something about that grey-white blur image right - it's like having something in your eye, and it's so difffuse, so different in feel from the majority of it, that I cannot see what purpose it serves. Certainly the composition requires the crop you've chosen, so i can see why it's included ... but it really does attract the attention, and in such an otherwise top image ...

The Barn
by KaDi

Comment:
I'm uncertain about tthe composition of this: the framing to the left of image seems more imposed than actual - perhaps a touch more of the foliage there would seem less to restrict the barn, and more to show us the natural framing that seems apparent there, and help the barn to sit more comfortably in frame. I see a conflict between the placing of tthe barn in the image and the areas of strength in this view of it: it's the gabled ends of it that most intrigu my eye, and yet your composition pulls my eye more to the longer part of the building than allowing my eye to settle on those gable ends. I think opening the image to the left would have helped reduce that conflict.

Portrait of Majesty
by Cantique

Comment:
I think I remember a shot a lot like this from a previous challenge - or maybe I'm just remembering browsing through this challenge before. Not a suggestion that you've previously entered this, I assure you. I like it - the almost (stress almost) photoshop nature of that background tree. Well composed, different and approachable image.

Rain Drop
by rscorp

Comment:
Strong graphic image. The composition might be a little on the obvious side, for me - although the grain of the wood seems to run at a pretty arbitrary angle to the grain of the feather. Very pretty.

Great Blue Heron
by rich

Comment:
Fun to get this close, and there's an achievemtn in that alone. To be a really impact-ful shot i would want it to show more character in the bird, or something more unusual: this is not an unusual pose for a heron, at all, and the light and the situation are not particularly special. Nice work though, all the same.