Bass Harbor Light
by Neil

Comment:
I look at this and think, there is so much more i could be doing with my wide angle lens. An amazing display of subtle shadows and colors, a nice reprive from the supersaturations.

Migration Interupted
by ellamay

Comment:
A stunning peice, i can almost hear the hoofbeats. Some of the otherwise lovely shots in this challenge lacked a verb, this almost suffers from too much action!

Wildlife II
by srdanz

Comment:
yup this is the one. for me it is the relationship between the tones on the bird, and the tones on the backround, which invert almost perfectly here to give the outline a crisp definition on both the black and white areas of the bird.

Message edited by author 2006-02-01 13:14:48.

el`e·men'tal : John Paul Caponigro
by Rikki

Comment:
I think there might be an issue here. Rikki goes to Japan and returns a ribbon winning machine! Time to check the basment for pods!

congratulations who ever you really are.

Island crab
by Uritrips

Comment:
Oh if only this were a touch bigger and the blacks a bit stronger! The camera angle really brings this guy right in to the viewer, and the OOF mountains in the backround and those puffy clouds are a perfect counterpoint to the action in the foreground. 8

Skimming Along
by gbloore

Comment:
I like how low to the water you are here, both the bird and the POV. The colors are rich and the shape of the bird and the trailing feet are well defined. Of course getting the water that nice tone came at the cost of conciderable loss of detail in the wing. Some day I will see a shot that gets all the textures in the egret's wing, but still keeps the backround nice and bright.Still good focus and DOF; ought to be right up there if the big white birds over water don't split their votes.

Great Everglades Egret
by LVE

Comment:
Nice capture and I like the way the shadows of the reeds describe the curvature of the bird's body, but the lighting puzzles me. If you took this at night then it is an amazing job color balancing, if this was taken by daylight then you burned the edges so much that the pool of remaining light is as much of a feature of the shot as the bird. Either way it detracts form the elegant form of tthe bird.

5 minutes Left
by barndog

Comment:
This is a nice enough product shot, but if you had tried to center it as best you could you you didn't miss by much.

Fly By
by kloutit

Comment:
wow, great capture, the colors of the duck's wing really is set off by the lilly pads. Good focus and DOF. i wouls have liked to see him a bit less cramped up in the corner on the framing, but you get what you get with birds on the wing and this one is a honey. Top ten.

Arabian Flights
by scalvert

Comment:
I though you might do well in this challenge, and you did yourself proud, another brilliant setup. The wrinkle in the carpet is a nice touch, and I particularly like the pink plastic dress up shoes, it adds that extra touch of "let's pretend".

For the common good we need to get anyone who would vote this shot a 1 out of the gene pool.