Conceptual art
by LevT

Comment:
Hmmmm. Looks like an inukshuk. But with graffitti.

Greek priest
by LevT

Comment:
Love this one.

sweeping in the rain
by ursula

Comment:

Originally posted by hopper: 1 more ribbon ties you with Heida for "top dpc female" :)

Thank you! Only because Heida quit entering challenges, otherwise I wouldn't have a chance :)

Charm School
by scalvert

Comment:
She's beautiful. Love that smile.

Two Cents
by jmsetzler

Comment:
John, congratulations! This is beautiful.

Precision Landing
by owen

Comment:
Congratulations on your blue ribbon with this beautiful, beautiful image!

sweeping in the rain
by ursula

Comment:
Ahh, you want to know about the important stuff, eh? Well, I'll try. Not right now, but I'll try to put stuff like that in the notes. It is what I like to see in notes also.

Originally posted by Gordon: Congrats on a great image. Well done. On reading the 'Photographer's comments' above, I find I'm more interested in knowing something about what happened before you pressed the shutter. What drew you to this subject, how was it when you found it, is it all entirely natural/found, how did you approach finding the final composition, what first caught your eye, how much did it take before you 'found' this final frame, that sort of stuff. If you have time, it would be really interesting I think (well, at least for me)

Stair's Stare
by librodo

Comment:
Congratulations on your ribbon, Manny!

Cochrane Ranche - "Men of Vision"
by Citadel

Comment:
Just an idea, but the building could have been cloned out. It's not a major element in the image. Or, you could have gone in a bit further so that the right hand side of the image was right in front of the building (maybe adding some space to the left, the place into which the rider is looking). As it is, the rider is smack centre image, which makes for a rather static composition. Having him at a 1/3 down from top, 1/3 from right hand, looking into the space to the left would be better IMO.

Something else, the image is half&half, that is, half sky, half rock. It probably would be better to have about 1/3 sky, 2/3 rock.

10 Russian Matrioshkas
by SquishyB

Comment:
Beautiful colours, and, again, the idea is good. I am not sure that the shallow DOF works here to bring out the concept of perspective. It might be good to try the image at various F stops (does the Coolpix allow you to set F-stops?, I don't know). If using presets, try the "landscape" preset, it usually has the most depth of field settings (whereas "portrait" uses a much more shallow setting usually).

Something else. When looking both at the thumbnail and at the full-size image, the first thing that hits you in the face with it is the first, big, out of focus, partial doll to the left. It looks like a big balloon intruding there. It uses up almost 1/3 of the whole picture, and on the left hand side (when looking at a horizontal image, most people look at it left to right). It doesn't really work to have it there. Starting with a full doll would be better IMO. But that's just my opinion.