woodpecker01.jpg
by drz01

Comment:
Good shot!
Pretty little guy, woodpecker?

di macchina
by yanko

Comment:
This is very, very good, Yanko.

Tempting Fate
by MelonMusketeer

Comment:
Jaypers, I'd have found a longer lens for that shot. For Sure.

Motionless
by MelonMusketeer

Comment:
Oh, gorgeous! Night Herons are 'easy' to shoot around here, but I NEVER got a shot like that one! Just tremendous.

holes in one
by tnun

Comment:
FWIW - I was one of your 22s. The technique looks like stippling run amok, maybe, or maybe not.

Mysterious and compelling. Keeps the viewer in the frame for a long time.

untitled 4
by tate

Comment:
Congratulations on your very nice placement, Tate.
Good one!

Glitter egg
by snaffles

Comment:
GREETINGS FROM THE CRITIQUE CLUB

Snaffles! We meet again. That last one of yours was a winner, for sure. This one? Well, we all lay an egg once in a while. (Joking!Joking!) Still, I think you and I both suffered from a similar fate in the Egg Challenge.

It may be that both of us suffered from the same malady: "Record Shot."

Yep, I too, made a straight-on image of a good subject. People pronounced it boring. In your case, with an emu egg (big bruisers, aren't they!) it would be good to shoot it high, low and at strange angles, just to see what would happen. Probably something interesting would show up. Then, while your lighting idea was excellent, ERM, that purple surface competes a bit with the texture of the egg as does the left-over glitter on that surface. I think you get the idea that I'm suggesting different approaches to this perfectly fine subject matter.

You are capable of it, and it would be fun to see the result. Keep that emu egg. No doubt there will be another Egg Challenge in our future!

Alice
:-))

Traffic lights
by snaffles

Comment:
GREETINGS FROM THE CRITIQUE CLUB

Somebody's KIDDING! I looked at that score and hollered out loud. "What were they thinking!" (Were you around for that guy? He was a few years back...)

Well, you received 3 "10"s and I was one of them, so you can see this is really going to be a forceful critique.

There is nothing wrong with this Free Study Image. It is technically excellent. It tells a great story. It is imaginative. What the heck can one want. 279 out of 378 indeed.

Well, you have taken your lumps and no doubt are planning revenge in the next Challenge. Keep 'em coming, Snaffles. You're good and a lot of us know it.

Alice

Climb-by-iamwoman.jpg
by Joker1114

Comment:
This is exceptional. Beautiful work.

The little things in life
by mbrutus2009

Comment:
greetings from the Critique Club

Awww, this is such a nice image, and one of my own high scores of the Challenge. but there weren't enough of us to lift that number into the higher reaches where it belongs.

This image has good bokeh, very nice definition of the air plant and nice placement in the frame. Maybe the plant could have been a little sharper? Who's to know. (You probably used a tripod and varied your exposure settings to get the very best one.) In any event, you have a good image here and I can't find much of anything to suggest to make it better. Oh, maybe emphasize the 1/3-2/3 aspect a little more. Maybe not.

So, about all I can say is that I look forward to seeing more of your work, so keep those images coming.

Alice