Sunglass Shadow
by CCBrayn

Comment:
Congratulations! Way to go, an 8th place finish for your first DPC submission. I love this image, it's such a clever composition

all grown up
by ursula

Comment:
This engages me emotionally. Well done. My thoughts on this are that swings are a wonderful metaphor for and reminder of childhood. That remembered feeling of flying through the air without a care is a powerful one. One that we can feel drawn back to. Some aspects of the processing seem a bit ragged, but whether deliberately so or not I cannot tell, for example the dark halo around the hands and the transition area where the ground ends.

Summer
by rinac

Comment:
Evocative. Interesting POV. I like this.

Hinomaru
by Yo_Spiff

Comment:
Appropriate choice of high aspect ratio for this image. A very pleasing image. I find it simultaneously both calming and stimulating!

St David's Day
by daevans

Comment:
Being of Welsh heritage I appreciate the daffodil and love spoon (not sure what the second object behind that is). No red dragons available?! Nice light, but the selective desaturation doesn't work for me here. I think that is because the area of color is relatively isolated from the rest of the image.

freeform study
by chromeydome

Comment:
I like this, although as yet I cannot really articulate exactly why. Interesting lines and textures for sure. On the technical side I think you either used a lens baby or blurred quite a large area around the edge some other way. The sudden transition from blur to sharp near the front banana favors the latter theory.

A New Friend
by vawendy

Comment:
This is a captivating image!... you are holding the camera with your other hand, I assume...

I see grass
by thisfoto

Comment:
There is something quirky about this that I like. It makes me smile. I also like its simplicity and that it's all about shadows.

The Shadows Of The Bird
by photokid69

Comment:
Wonderful shot. Nicely framed. The shadows of the rotor blades fall in a good position in the image. Lots of interesting detail but yet my attention always comes back to the "bird". Top 5.

Afternoon sun
by ladpupmoe

Comment:
Good shot overall. Technically excellent and visually interesting. I find myself wondering "why a leaf?" and there is something about its shape that imo detracts from the image, but I enjoy the light on its veins. I wonder if it would have been a stronger image with some separation between the base of the leaf and the adjacent dark area, just a thought. 7