Five Circles
by arnit

Comment:
Yes, congratulations. I'm not surprised to see this do well.

Band of Brothers
by gaurawa

Comment:
Fantastic! I wonder how many people (like me) scored this high on nostalgia value alone, echoing as it does the much-discussed color-switched red, green, blue smoke image? Congrats and blue and 2 in a week.

Cinco de Mayo, 2005 — 5 green, 5 Red, 5 Sprigs
by Bear_Music

Comment:
This is a real suprise. I never dreamed 6.3x would make top 10.

For those who commented about the garish or oversaturated reds, I'd agree they ARE garish, but I'd point out the greens are equally hpersaturated. The goal was to make an explosion of color, a "fiesta" feeling if you will.

For those who commented about the "flatness" of the red, you're absolutely correct. The surfaces of the red peppers were not as smooth as they should have been, and they were throwing ugly specular highlights around. I couldn't match the highlights of the firm, green peppers without possibly illegal cloning and brushing, so I just smoothed the reds out in Neat Image. I tried to find better peppers to reshoot, but no luck. I could find smooth LONG red peppers, but I wanted the cherry peppers and this was the best I could find.

Thanx all for commenting.

blue reflection
by auburnfan0930

Comment:
nice and eerie. Love the slow fade of detail to the foreground. I hope this does better than I expect it to.

Moon
by pnorris

Comment:
This is a very nice moonshot to my eye. It may get ripped for not being of 'astronomical" quality, but I like the moodiness of it and the bure sentrality of the composition. The clouds work well to make this dynamic.

Medieval
by Tom_Robbrecht

Comment:
I like the mood of this, it's simpe but effective.

Pittsburgh, PA @ night
by cj_gvine

Comment:
beautiful cityscape. not as sharp as I'd like iut, but lovely.

Hungry? Have the best!
by jmlelii

Comment:
rotate a little ccw and make it a full point better :-) Strong and sharp, beautifully rendered.

Late Night, All Night
by dblink

Comment:
very nice, stark and moody, noirish, gritty.

Kimmel at Night
by banmorn

Comment:
WOWZA... more comment later, parkign at 6 for now. Oof, got back to it. I was struggling with how well this very fine image fits into the "late night" aspect of the challenge. It's my desire to reward people who managed to catch the "feeling" of late night. This does it for me, regardless. But I was an architectural photographer, so I wanted to be fair, not be biased towards it for that reaosn alone. But I keep getting that tsark, early-morning, sterile-light sense from it that I knwo so well. so you get the BUMP.