Rain Drop
by rscorp

Comment:
I really love this one. Pure and simple, Enhanced by the single flaw in the feather, the whole feather balanced just so on the monochrome of the board, the reflection in the droplet critical but not overstated.

Hats off to the Great Skua
by Gauti

Comment:
How could the moment be better caught? Flawless image of its kind.

Kimmel Abstract
by banmorn

Comment:
Be hard to improve on this one. Dark-to-light, light-to-dark, double interplay; battling diagonals overlaid with dominant arcs. Fantastic shot.

Boathouses
by Warby

Comment:
Really, really fine, deceptively simple but so carefully composed. The nearest "house" slightly protrudes above the horizon; the next slightly above the field/water line. I can see the care that went into this one. The muted tonalities lower right are very effective.

Two Zebras
by dsa157

Comment:
Fabulous "reality abstract". No nits.

Gerber
by FrostyPaws

Comment:
Almost there... Basically a very fine rendering of flowers seen in an unconventional way, but the coolness and "down" values of the white petals at the bottom are not optimum to my eye.

My Daughter
by singale

Comment:
A beautiful picture. My only complaint is that the skin and hair in the lower left are sharply rendered while the face is slightly over-0processed, and that's disconterting. I wish at least that the lower left were equally processed compared to the fafce, and ideally that the extreme lightening of the lower face were toned back a little at the same time.

Three Times Not Lucky
by magnus

Comment:
A beautiful, simple composition. Absolutely wonderful rendering of the snow, a very difficult thing to do.

The Fog of War
by Falc

Comment:
Really, really nice work. It is a pity that botht he significant faces are partially obscured by lances...

The Great Pumpkin
by Mobius

Comment:
Deceptively lovely image. Compsitionally flawless, may lack the wow factor for others but I place it right at the top. I'm a sucker for the well-seen detail.