Green Creature
by mullany1957

Comment:
NICE crisp shot! I've shot frogs, and I know how tough it can be to get them to cooperate. Only the straightforward, almost journalistic style of composition keeps this a 9 from me instead of a 10 - if it had seemed more 'arty,' as it were, if there were an emotional tone or a visceral reaction given (rather than just \"Oh, wow, what an outstanding photo of a bullfrog!"), I would have tenned it. Still, well done!

Orange Green and Purple
by sg10

Comment:
Lovely macro; good choice to have the entire flower sharp and the background fuzzed. Looks like something from a seed catalog, almost - advertising the plant or breed.

Sunset in my stomach except not in my stomach and instead in the sky
by Asexaul duck

Comment:
Love it. If it were a little bigger (and therefore a little more detailed), it might have been a 9 or 10 for me; as it is, 8. :->

Green (and brown horses)
by jajone

Comment:
A nice green picture, and so it first the topic of the challenge, but the composition is squarely 'snapshot.' A different crop, probably centering (interest-wise, not necessarily geometrically) on the right-hand horse, might have gotten a 9 or 10 from me.

Yields Green
by drydoc

Comment:
This has almost a snapshot feel, probably a combination of the lighting and the focus (which is either odd, or sharpened strangely in postproduction). The composition's also a little mushy - the eye isn't drawn to any one particular place, and so it wanders around to no purpose, as it were. Still, fits the theme well (nice colors).

Gritty 'n Green
by Jean

Comment:
Yes, it's 'derivative' of earlier images, but it's still a lovely execution of the 'looking through water drops' trope, and it includes a legitimate secondary color, so I'm grading it highly. :-> If the things refracted in the droplets were more appealing/interestingly composed, it might have gotten a 10 from me, in fact, given the technical skill displayed, but they aren't, so 8.

Daisies
by LindaE

Comment:
Nice sharp focus, good colors, good composition.

Limoge
by Barb

Comment:
A beautiful piece, beautifully lit (and reflecting!)

African Daisies in a Bed of Ferns
by KING

Comment:
Love the sharp focus on the flower, soft focus on the ferns in the background. Luminous color.

My protector, my hero !
by melissarts

Comment:
The pixelation and bizarre stretch to the proportions bother me, and distract from what otherwise might be a very nice picture, making the girl look deformed.