Driftwood Sculpture
by ThingFish

Comment:
Very cool. I love the rippled sand as leading lines into the wood. You can feel the warm afternoon sun from the deep shadows. The sky/clouds are great and really frame the photo well. The wood is the least interesting part to me, but I assume this is a found scene and you did great with it.

Hedgehoppers
by LevT

Comment:
Love it. The tonality of this image gives a dreamy quality. The silhouetted birds really stand out as does the single spike of water. I think you could remove 20% to 30% of the sky and put the upper and lower waves onto the rules of thirds to give it more impact.

morning mist
by Tiberius

Comment:
Wonderful atmosphere, very serene and peaceful. The mist amongst the tree is very nice. Perhaps crop off 10% or 20% of the sky as is covers a large part of the image and is the least interesting part.

Just Before Sunset
by noraneko

Comment:
Nicely seen and processed. All the elements work together foreground, middle, and distance. The sun is not overly harsh and works well. Perhaps needed a silhouetted duck or crane or something to push it to the top in a free study.

glitch
by skewsme

Comment:
Very interesting image. Fun to explore. I love the black/white reversal on bird/background. I think the trees/bushes on the bottom are strong elements but do not find the middle "grey streaks" to be as effective.

St Patrick?s Day
by Paul

Comment:
Well shot and exposed B&W with the full range of tones. The composite creates a nice but confusing set of images. Not sure I have any context on the event except the title and I am also not sure if the "?" has some meaning or is a typo (SC can fix that if you ask). Did you have other photos with the eyes visible on the two men as this could have helped the impact.

Hello Spring
by grahamgator

Comment:
Love the minimalism here. Very simple yet effective. The bird is a small portion of the image as is the green leaves. Consider cropping in slightly maybe removing 1/3 of the top and 1/3 of the left side. It would still have the minimalism but also have more impact from larger subjects.

In the thick of time
by mariuca

Comment:
Nice symmetry here with the 3 tree on the compass points. Black and white works great here. Hard to compete against other brightly colored photos with more well defined subjects in a Free Study, but I like it.

A simpel thing
by hajeka

Comment:
I like all the tones and the out of focus background. An ethernet jack, I assume? Did you try a larger depth of field on the object. It may have added more impact to the image. Or maybe less DoF, always worth experimenting.

There is only one Spring, coming to us again and again.
by posthumous

Comment:
Very nice. Could see this in a motivational poster catalog. The colors and textures work very well together. That said being somewhat graphic in nature it has less impact than some of the other more traditional photographic entries.