Spring Sprung
by jimmythefish

Comment:
Excellent - the light is presumably processing work? Love the anti-rules cropping, the balance, the loom of the tree.

Dapper Duck
by jenesis

Comment:
Beautiful and original. Love the light on the water, the tones of the feathers on the back.

Morning in the city
by AFChris

Comment:
Something looks slightly wrong with the red building, to my eye - and possibly with the black one bbeside it - the colour seems almost fake, too regular. It may only be that it's a weird colour for an office building though. Like the shot - the sense of menace there is in those towers, the sense of oddness.

Noble Spirit
by moodville

Comment:
Real sense of character here - mono is a good choice too.

Perpetual
by orussell

Comment:
Congrats Owen on your first ribbon - good to see such a massive contributor to the site scoring a hit.

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Transported
by jjbeguin

Comment:
he's so expressive, that guy, JJ. ave you lightened him in this shot, or was he simply sitting in the brightest part of the scene anyway? I can't tell. I like the third circle of the bike's wing-mirror - forms a nice balance with their heads, and enhances the leading lines of the street.

macaw study
by Seanachai

Comment:
Excellent. Good capture of the continuing line across his head into his beak (or hers). Detail, exposure and texture all very good. Somehow, for all its technical prowess, doesn't hold my interest much - no real drama, nor personality. Like the crinkly skin around the lower jaw though.

Signs of Spring
by jmritz

Comment:
I think the strongest element in this shot is the parallel of rerflected shapes in the water and the line of the trees - you could perhaps have afforded to darken the thing more, which might have allowed more detail (and therefore interest) in the sky.

Delicious Mint in Delightful March
by mirdonamy

Comment:
Pure on-board flash removes any element of depth, and much of texture from this. processing is poor too - if you're going to over-expose most of the plate, then why not all of it? Food photography has come on loads in the past few years - take alook at Jonathan Lovekin's work, amongst others, and compare ...

Prarie Line
by leaf

Comment:
The first note is that I see some banding in the sky - and i've checked and don't see it on similarly graded tonal images, so i think it must be in your picture.

Like the idea though - there's a bleakness, an isolation and desolation about it. Not completely convinced about the execution though - and i think that is down to the moment of light you've chosen - or perhaps even the point of view. Did you try getting right down to the ground, so that the barns formed more of a horizon, or at least less horizon was visible beyond them? They somehow don't seem to impose themselves enough on this image, and I think that might have helped.