Colors
by mineru_forgardu

Comment:
I would encourage you to upload larger images. Make your longest dimension the full 640 pixels allowed (instead of the 260 in this case). This will let folks see the details in the photo which will help them appreciate it better.

corner detail......
by undieyatch

Comment:
I think I see the effect you're going for here, but to my taste, the post processing feels too severe.

a late-night/early morning snack
by nerdynotdirty

Comment:
This doesn't hold my interest. It is a common enough experience that folks can resonate with it, but when you take a photo of something common, you need something uncommon in the image to hold people's eye.

Just another night for a video game fan
by nlghttrain

Comment:
The dark area around the screen hints at details that might be there, but it is so dark, I can't make any of them out. My monitor is calibrated by the way. If I copy and paste the image into Photoshop, it brightens up somewhat. I am wondering if you saved the image in a color space other than sRGB (possibly B&W or Grayscale) which might account for it when it's displayed in my IE6 browser.

No Snooze Button
by GeneralE

Comment:
Without the title, I would not have been able to figure out what was being photographed. This is a matter of personal taste, but for me, I need something for my eye to rest on and I can't find anything here.

Turn. That. Light. Off.
by Nordlys

Comment:
This does a nice job conveying the emotion implied by the title. Well composed and leveled. It might be a bit oversharpened, at least to my taste, but the sharpening is effective at capturing the texture of the face. If advanced editing were available, I might have cloned out a few hot pixels, but they don't distract very much at all. Nicely done!

Absolute Still
by Skip

Comment:
Beautiful photo. I like the colors very much. Placement of the horizon and the house in the frame show a very good sense of design and balance. The direction of the camera relative to the rising sun does a nice job catching the dawn's gradient sky. I also like that you caught some stars ... they add a sense of scale to the photo that would be missing otherwise. In short, beautiful setting, beautiful time of day, beautifully captured. I expect it to ribbon.

Waxing Gibbous
by marbo

Comment:
Nice moon shot. From your corner of the world, your angle shows more craters than a similar moon shot in this challenge. Both shots have areas that look a little over sharpened.

Rays of Hope
by mystardream

Comment:
It may be the hill, but the photo gives the impression of being slightly tilted (down a bit on the right). Whether illusion or an actual tilt, rotating it CCW a little would have improved this in my opinion. Not sure I've ever seen a "Rays of Hope" greeting card catagory.

Thinking Of You
by woodsey

Comment:
I like the composition and colors of this. It has very good DOF. A stronger focus would have raised my vote a couple of points.