Clambake!
by Bear_Music

Comment:
Nice colourful image. Some strange distortions in the upper part, but I can live with that.

Celebrate The Coming Of Autumn !
by Coley

Comment:
Nice try. Would have preferred to see the faces and to have all the hair in frame.

A Celebration of Fall
by banmorn

Comment:
Nice still life. If I had to crit something it would be that there isn't enough space around the edge. The leaf stems almost touch the edge of the frame and I would prefer them to be a little further in.

Breakfast Meeting
by RN Patti

Comment:
Good record of an natural phenomenon. Difficult to give it any artistic or technical merit though. Maybe I can force myself to see a nice sweep of wire from the top left, but apart from that I really am struggling to find much worth saying about this image. Sorry that sounds hard, but to be honest this is my current vote for brown ribbon.

"Cheer up guys, only 77 HO HO Ho'ing days to Christmas"
by fredandaud

Comment:
Excellent, love it, and a nice pose too ;-)

A child is worthliving for.
by moore8

Comment:
OK - pets, kids and toys, unless they are especially good then they tend to look like snaps. This has very obious 'snap' giveaways - the dark shadow from onboard flash, the taps half in frame and half out of frame, the sloping and very plain background.

Now, for an example of how good kid photos can be go and check out some of Jacko's images. He used directional light either from an off camera flash or from a natural light source (window). He makes sure that the background and setting do not distract from the baby. Well worth studying some of these techniques.

I Won!
by suemack

Comment:
Nice, two minor crits - the girls right hand is just cropped a little close to the edge. It feels to me as though it needs just a little more space around it.
Secondly if you had been able to get up just a little more then she wouldn't have broken the skyline with her head.

Its the little details which count.

Lots of Loving !
by TheresaA

Comment:
Hmmm - dogs cats and kids - a lethal trio at DPC.
Pet shots have to be something really special to make it, and to be honest this one isn't in that small select few.

Take a good look at this and ignore that its your pet. Just imagine you were not emotionally attached to the dog. What do you see?
Its a snap, face on, flat lighting, blown highlights probably taken with an onboard flash which tends to give this effect.

Try an image using some directional light from a window without the flash, you will see such a big difference. My guess is you are running at around 4 to 5, and thats probably fair.

Tied The Knot ?
by hideout

Comment:
Different - nice abstract, love the shadows - they really add an extra element

Karen & Greg
by m--E

Comment:
Nice and simple, excellent.