Backflip
by AllenP

Comment:
Congratulations on the Blue!! Great image.

Midtown Ferry Terminal - Going Up?!
by JakeKurdsjuk

Comment:

Originally posted by PennyClick: Great image. Well seen. Love the tones, and the splash of red. Did you consider a horizontal flip? I know I would have done just to see if I preferred a left to right flow within the image rather than the right to left one we see here. Ties with one other image for my highest score and I hope to see it ribbon.

Penny, yes indeed, I did try it flipped horizontally. In fact, my initial edit was done this way because I did a 180 degree rotation of the original image. I liked it just fine, but then decided to try it the other way, because it is the same basic angle that I saw the room from in the first place. When I did I found that I preferred this one. Why? Perhaps because it reminded me of the original, unflipped view, and maybe because I felt the left-to-right leading line was a little more traditional, where the right-to-left felt "off" in a good way and might help with the disorienting of the viewer and delay the discovery that this was actually upside down.

A Study In Yellow
by JakeKurdsjuk

Comment:
Thanks for the comments, all. This is actually a tight crop shot with a 70-200mm and not technically a close-up. The details in the center of this flower caught my eye and I wanted to capture it, and as I processed it I realized that they eye was distracted by more and more of the background objects so I cropped in to this. I'm glad it was as appreciated as it was - I don't have a lot of backlog to pick from for these deep challenges.

I agree that the dark spot can be distracting, but I didn't want to crop it out because I liked the parallel look in the bokeh, and it helped you realize the size of the flower since it is more obviously a sunflower. In retrospect I should have dodged it a bit to make it less obviously dark.

Evening Stillness
by nam

Comment:
Congrats. Well deserved.

Light Pole Sitta
by Phocal

Comment:
Love how the pole looks like legs.

Symmetry
by LN13

Comment:
Not quite - but pretty darn close. Upper left corner needs pulling up just a touch to square the horizontal on that roof window. If it wasn't so close to the edge I might not notice (OK, I probably would). Still, well seen and taken. 8

The Conversation
by rooum

Comment:
This is so wonderful, but the skewed verticals on the walls are so distracting. So easily fixable too. I'm still giving it a begrudging 8 because I love the ladies so much, but it could have been higher.

Stumps
by Lawton

Comment:
Really lovely. Perhaps a little more blur (i.e. less definition/structure) in the background to better accentuate these great old tree remnants.

Golden rings
by hajeka

Comment:
Interesting subject and composition. Nice use of Pringles lids(?)

Viper
by theluissales

Comment:
I got this immediately after the Emu shot and it made me chuckle. You're just a hair too far too the right on an otherwise well done shot.