Faded glory
by electina

Comment:
This image tells a beautiful story. You have some good comments and I can only add my appreciation for a fine interpretation of the flower and the Challenge. (('m one of your five "nines")

Keep up the good work.
Alice

G'day Mate!
by cheegirl

Comment:
Congratulations on a well deserved win.

Cascadilla at Dusk
by cresus

Comment:
I looked at this a long time and moved it around on my screen to try different croppings. I know you made your decision carefully on how to crop this very nice image. But it also looks really good without the arch, which to me, seems to take away from the cascade of water. Not to take away from your very nice image; I'll still score it high.

grey and red go well together
by vanbird

Comment:
Gorgeous car. Old Morgan?

G'day Mate!
by cheegirl

Comment:
Okay. This is about as cute as they come. Nice work.

Terminated
by scalvert

Comment:
Wow!

Dual Complexity
by Rikki

Comment:
A little kandinsky, a dab of Picasso and a lot of Rikki!

Nice work! Congratulations on another great win.

Butter is yellow, right?
by dugpark

Comment:
really nice lighting

The Great Escape (Part Duex)
by Schuff

Comment:
Greetings from the Critique Club

I remember this image when it won a ribbon a while back and it still brings a smile. So, it was fun to examine your emulation to see how close you came.

I'm not going to dwell on the focusing; you've obviously had enough comments on that. Tripod & bracketing are my only suggestions (and you probably did all that).

But the lighting also comes into play in this fun photo. Froglet made her image seem warm,friendly and sort of mischievous through the use of warm lighting behind the wall, where you went for the harsher lighting associated with black & white. Not good or bad, just different. And - maybe - voters were attracted more to the warmth of the original... Who knows?

What really counts is that you obviously had fun making this image and that you learned from it.

Keep up the good work.

Overground Babushkas
by srichmond

Comment:
A great capture of the moment