Ready
by LevT

Comment:
My 10. Lovely find - and indeed made for a square crop . . . as if the spider knew what you needed and did her level best.

Teslalate
by DistantColours

Comment:
My next to highest score - 9. I just loved this and still do. Nice finish.

Standoff
by LevT

Comment:
Nifty patterns. Congratulations on the Red :)

Night Out
by Barroness

Comment:
My 10 and an easy top score for me. I just love this! Congratulations on the Blue.

Water Sprite
by markwiley

Comment:
So well done, Mark. congratulations on the Blue and the new personal best.

Paleontologist on Site
by nam

Comment:

Originally posted by glad2badad: Yes! On target capture for this challenge. Thank you. She looks very focused on the job at hand.

She was, in fact, very focused . . . and quite uncomfortable when, a moment or two later, she noticed me taking her picture. Soon after, she took her lunch break.

Mixologist
by LevT

Comment:
My top pick. I wish it wasn't quite so yellow but otherwise excellent for the challenge - and what an engaging smile this young man has!

University Hall (1869)
by markwiley

Comment:
Amazing. You know the drill . . . Congratulations on another well-deserved Blue.

Newborn
by Nobody

Comment:
I absolutely adore this image. Congratulations on the ribbon. If I were to offer any suggestion (for future use where it was allowed) it would be to change the color of the orange leaf to brown. That bright spot of color is distracting, and I don't feel the integrity of the scene would suffer from that alteration.

Annie
by Neat

Comment:

Originally posted by Bear_Music: . . . I'm with Posthumous on this. Mine was one of the low scores. For me the spirit of "shoot from the hip" is sort of a "flawed spontaneity" and this shot's too perfect to qualify even assuming Anita was running backward, holding the camera low, and using no viewfinder. It's clearly an "intentional" shot in that sense.

Sorry to admit that I did not vote on this challenge :( - but I would have struggled to find a "fair" score for the same reasons. The struggle would, of course, have been because it's a delightful, beautiful, fresh, capture. As such, I would not have given it below a 5 and would probably have settled on a 6; personally, that's what I do for wonderful photos that I feel don't meet the specific challenge. But I would have reserved my 7-10 scores for something else.