a Blue Blue Christmas season on the jewel of Minnesota
by rjackpine

Comment:
A simple crop could raise your score a full point on this: Crop out the contrail along the top (everything from that point up is doing nothing for the photo anyway) and shave a bit off the left side to perfectly center your sunset.

not entering.jpg
by mk

Comment:
I love this... if it were my photo I would have ended up doing screen and soft light layers and then coverting the whole thing to sepia or somesuch nonsense, but this is nice. There's something quiet and lovely in the quite ordinariness of a cat being still.

seppuku
by Dan_Cottle

Comment:
I think you did get dinged for the lack of understanding of what seppuku is, but your biggest hit actually comes from the photo's reliance on the title to meet the challenge. That makes it a shoehorn in many eyes. It's also a very dark photo, so an uncalibrated monitor could make it very very very dark (like the monitor I'm on now at work, which sucks a whole lot). Dark photos very rarely do well on DPC for this reason. I gave this a 5, because it's a really nice photo, but even knowing what seppuku is without looking it up I really don't see how the title is connected to the photo. The pose doesn't suggest seppuku to me at all. It might have if there was a samurai sword involved, or a more upright, dignified pose suggesting the honor of the ritual. On my scale, an outstanding photo that I find DNMC doesn't usually score higher than a 4. I gave this an extra point because it's technically solid and might have had a stronger connection to death with a different title, perhaps something more connected to the grief over the death of a loved one, which I can see as a decent interpretation for this picture.

I'm trying to sleep,. Quit with the flash.
by cryingdragon

Comment:
The border really detracts. All you needed, if you absolutely must have one, is a thin black line.

Profile
by Gobolts

Comment:
Awww... a Boston Terrier! My sister and her husband have a Boston puppy - quite a handful!

Merry Christmas from The Girls
by Artifacts

Comment:
LLAMAAAAAAAAASSSSSS!!!!!!! :D

Sunday Morning
by jimness

Comment:
Hi there - Aside from not really having much emotional impact, there is a lot of haloing from oversharpening around the branches in the upper right. It looks like what happens when I try to zoom way in on a subject that's really just too far away for my camera to handle well and then crop it way down. Not saying this is what you did, but I don't know how else to describe it. I can't comment much on the color since I'm using a crappy work monitor, but the sharpening issue I think killed it more than anything else.

Lotsa Stuff
by Tom_Robbrecht

Comment:
Oooh, the placement on this is a travesty, it's such a cool image! One of my favorites of the challenge.

Holiday Baking
by lauraodom

Comment:
I think this is the cutest and cleverest idea for a baby Christmas photo I've seen!

Life, Tree of
by senn

Comment:
Haha... Life, love and Mickey Mouse!