verde-go
by skewsme

Comment:
I hate flowers... but at least your flower had a bug in it. ;)

Seriously, this is quite a nice photo, and the shallow DOF has been used brilliantly to draw all the attention to the bug. I quite like this... and think it was my highest rated flower photo in challenge. :)

Again, I digress. Colour's good, perhaps an iota falt, composition is spot on. Well done... probably deserved to do better with the voters, but I blame those voters that see flowers and turn of w/o giving them enough of a chance... and I have to admit I'm one of those... or was... I've developed an appreciation of them following Flowers II and will endeavour to give them more time in the future. I am a reformed flower hater... well, maybe not... I still hate them, but will not be so quick to judge them in future.

a tribute to bucket
by posthumous

Comment:
This is a view my wife has become very familiar with over the years, and was up until recently (thank science for some wonderful anti-nausea drugs) again experiencing several time a day... though he bucket lacked the feathers.

Nice image. I love the feathers and the processing. Initially, I wasn't sure about the composition, though the more I look at it, the better the non-centred bucket is. I perhaps may have not cropped so close to the handle on the left, and may have cropped out the bar at the bottom of the image... and perhaps straighten the horizontal bars...

Above the Birds
by vawendy

Comment:
Great composition... I love that you've captured the full wingspan and cropped it so that they go from corner to corner. It's only a shame that it's such an ugly bird and it gets lost somewhat in the dirty water below... not things you have any control over, I know... but perhaps explain why an otherwise great shot didn't do better with the voters perhaps.

Lorikeet
by rodfulk

Comment:
Where does one find a lorikeet in Northeast Arkansas,USA... ahh... I see from the location info, it was at a zoo in Ohio... anyway...

Great colour and clarity in this image... and DOF is brilliant. Where the shot suffers is in the composition and crop. That blade of grass that goes from the bottom right to right in front of the birds head... a killer. Also, cropping the birds tail... ouch! Final negative is the blurry colourful thing in the background... lose these three things, and you would have been laughing. Though... still think you may have had a lot of pedants making you down for not being above the subject enough... perhaps.

Play Time
by BAMartin

Comment:
Excellent composition and colour in this image and I love the details in the floor. Image might be a tad too busy, in that, there's no real path for the viewers eye to follow... I find myself just jumping around the image, looking at the colour, then the people, then the cranes on the string, back to the people, etc etc... so perhaps its too balanced? I don't know... :(

The center of their universe
by Melethia

Comment:
I should have known that this was a Melethia. Well done. I love it when a photo draws me in to investigate it in detail... this, like many of your images has those hooks that drag me in and make me take my time to look at it. Exceptional work...

Edited to fix spelling error.

Message edited by author 2009-07-16 01:02:38.

Hop Scotch Sneakers
by quiet_observation

Comment:
I think this image suffered in voting because the footwear wasn't a significant enough element in the image. I like the idea and the processing, but the shoes just aren't even close to being the subject and the voters punished you in the voting for this.

Nature Made
by Kelli

Comment:
Congratulations on the top 10 finish, and on the Team Suck top score award for the challenge. Well done. Nice colour and it's nice and sharp, which really makes the shoe pop... though I find the surface it's on quite distracting, and the composition lacks dynamic... would have like it taken from a different perspective perhaps... but ask 3 other people what they think, you'd get 6 different opinions :) Again... congratulations on a very nice image and doing well in the challenge.

Tread
by colorcarnival

Comment:
I liked this one, and scored it well during voting. I can't understand how this didn't fair better with the voters. Sharp where it needs to be, good use of shallow DOF. Interesting... well composed... this is most definitely worthy of a final score in the high 5's low 6's perhaps... think you've been hard done by only getting a 5.39.

Season's End
by karmat

Comment:
I like this image, and scored it relatively high. I really like the idea, and the colour and detail, but think the ball is a tad too dominant and thus takes away from the shoes. Great title too... though, I have to admit, I didn't notice the title until now... I often don't notice the title unless the image needs it to explain how it meets the challenge... your shot stands up without the help of the title though, which says a lot about it. Well done!