I Was Framed in Sin City
by hesitant

Comment:
I should have congratulated you days ago on this fine image and your ribbon, sorry :-( Congrats!

Flash! goes the lightning!
by Urho

Comment:
I've neglected my manners not to congratulate you on this striking capture sooner. Well done! Congrats on the ribbon.

Greetings From The Late Great Planet Earth
by Dr.Confuser

Comment:
This is exquisite. Thanks for the long narrative too. Congrats on your ribbon!

Earth's wonderful creatures
by P-A-U-L

Comment:
One of my favorites in the challenge. Congrats on the ribbon!

Mother Nature's Glow
by MAK

Comment:
This is beautiful! Congrats on HM!

So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish
by LN13

Comment:
Oddly, I just taped the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy :-) Very cool shot! Congrats!

Z
by Jules1x

Comment:
I gave this a 9. I think it's killer. Macro-as-landscape is one of my favorite things, and this canyon running to an infinite sky is my idea of an eerie, alien landscape.

Wife : Mother : Best Friend : Lover
by ShaneBlake

Comment:
This is gorgeous. Coming back to bump. It's an image that's radiating love; not just from the photographer for the model, but vice versa. Beautiful, understated, HUMAN!

New Beginnings
by Deve

Comment:
Greetings From Critique Club

This is a very handsome and *human* portrait, not artificial or idealized at all. And that's a major plus. But there's one thing in particular, in post processing, that you could do to make it dramatically better: you need to magnify the image so youi can work on the eyes and make them lighter and snappier, especially the model's right eye, which is lost in shadow. This doesn't have to be extreme, but eye contact is everything in this sort of portrait.

Beyond that, you could have improved it in the shooting by moving your POV just enough to the right to lose that window between the trees, which is sort of distracting. Or possibly just crop this image to a square and lose all the distraction.

He IS a beautiful man, and it shows. Thank GOD, indeed :-)

Robt.

Boxes
by MAK

Comment:
8 from me. Deserved better. Well seen!