As Night flees before the Dawn
by DrAchoo

Comment:
We're gonna call you the Flim-Flam Man from now on :-) Heckuva serendipitous image. Of course, I knew during voting it couldn't be "dawn" anyway, since I know these rocks and that's looking westerly. It had crossed my mind someone'd actually sent a friend out with a Zodiac and a spotlight :-)

As the sun sets
by Bruce_the_Robert

Comment:
This is lovely. Very much the kind of thing I strive for repeatedly. Can you do another for the current member's challenge? :-)

Silenced
by lovethelight

Comment:
Hey, way to go! "Freaking Awesome", to borrow your adjective :-)

Little House On The Prairie
by good_ham

Comment:
How nice to see such a stark, minimalist composition do well in a Free Study. Congrats on your first ribbon!

solace
by librodo

Comment:
One truly appreciates the absence of a veil :-) Especially since there are so many of those in India... The fly is the crowning touch here. Congrats on blue.

Alfresco (out in the open)
by BrianR

Comment:
Conceptually this is very nice, if a bit off the beaten path for a "perspective" challenge. The cropping on the bottom and right is simply excellent. The processing, unfortunately, is a whole other story. It's got an overall muddy, green tint to it that is damaging you. I see you are using lightroom, which is an excellent color management tool, so it makes me wonder if the color is set right on your monitor. Aside from color and noise issues, this is a very nice image.

Hang On!
by Photologist

Comment:
This one's outstanding. Love the "risking life and limb" component of it. Certainly nails the challenge theme in a fairly off the wall way. I'm surprised it didn't finish a bit higher. I really have no nits here. Good work.

Who will watch the watchmen?
by skewsme

Comment:
This is my kinda shot :-) I like it very much. It's only marginally connected tot he challenge topic, which explains its relatively low score vis a vis the quality. For me the bird is a little too centered; I think you have excess area on the left you can whack off to pull the bird over closer to the left edge. I realize you have him right smack on the 1/3 line, but in my experience the 1/3 lines are too far into the image when you do stretched formats; I tend to work closer to a rule of fourths on skinny shots. That's just my opinion though. Nice work!

Where the bridge meets the sky
by Kelli

Comment:
The color toning here is exceptional. The overall effect of the image is quite nice. The whole danged thing is leaning over to the right, though; I wish you'd rotated CCW to correct that. I also wish you'd pulled a little more shadow detail up. Still, a lovely shot.

Fun House
by Hipychik

Comment:
This is outstanding. It was one of my high scores given. The only nit I have (and it isn't much of a one) is that the reflection portion seems a little muddy, and I wonder if you can crisp that part up simply by selecting the top half of the image and running some curves on it. Lovely shot, and deserving of a better score than it received IMO.