Old and Weathered
by beautyqn25

Comment:
Sweet and strong. I wish the top of the sky had been burned slightly to contain it a bit. I wish the little "bumps" on the very left edge had been cloned out, they are disturbing. Perhaps a tad more luminance on the snow/ice patches int he foreground, for "pop".

Ansel Adams Study
by dustin03

Comment:
Wonderful in many ways, great use of DOF, strong subject. Bur the whoile right side is too blocked up, no shadow detail and no separation to speak of in trees/sky.

Sonoran Spring
by Artifacts

Comment:
This has SO much potential. The sky's marvelous. It falls short for me, though, in that the shadows are too blocked up, especially on right center, and the "toppling" perspective on the largest saguaro is disturbing. A strong entry, regardless.

Nightbulb
by scalvert

Comment:
I'd love to know how this was done in basic editing. It is so skillfully done I have to presume the maker knows what he's doing, and I give it a 10. I'm sure someone else has asked for validation. I hope it validates. Feel free to PM me and elt me know how you made it if youw ish, the 10 is already on it and will stay there.

GREAT! Validated! I can't wait to see how you did this....

Bodhisattva
by labuds

Comment:
I cannot believe this was done with Basic Editing. I am sure everyone who sees it wil lhave the same reaction. I asked for validation last night 30 mins after the challenge posted, for that reason. I hope I'm wrong and that this is "legal". But it REALLY needs that "validated" tag on it LOL. Meanwhile, I have given it a 10, and that vote will stay as long as the image stays up. If you care to PM me and tell me how you did it, just to satisfy my curiosity, feel free.

GREAT! Validated! I love it. Can't wait to see how you did this.

"Veins"
by middelbosch

Comment:
One of the best of the all-natural takes. 8 from me. eeirie and ominous and dream-like

Marry me Daddy
by joyinlight

Comment:
This one is one of the very few that's taking "surrealism" literally, and I admire it for that. I can't believe, however, that the border is legalin basic editing. And even if it were, it's not helping the image at all IMO. Nevertheless, I'm scoring this 8, and would have scored it 9 without the very distracting border.

Madeleine's Winter Dream
by holdingtime

Comment:
Very strange. I really really wish the not spot were mellower... 8

Strange love...
by Terramar

Comment:
TRULY strange. Conceptually this is really "surrealism" as I understand it. One of the relative few images that "gets it". Aesthetically, I feel like there's too much red area... 9 from me

What do you see?
by p3wiz

Comment:
I keep coming back to this one and liking it more and more. As landscapes go (and of course this ISN'T a landscape) this one keeps shifting perspectives. I KNOW it's a reversed shot of a snowdrift, and yet I keep seeing the Hindu Kush or something... I liek it and I give it a 9 just 'cuz it's different and refreshing and intriguing, even if it's not really "surreal" by my definition. I hope you do well.