Springtime
by birkin

Comment:
Nicely angled composition and well-balanced with the flowers above and below.

Up Close and Personal
by Patents4u

Comment:
This is an excellent min edit macro and it completely gives me the heebie jeebies. :)

Larva Lamp in a Cold Climate
by raish

Comment:
for my Team Suck initiation...a little Vogon poetry. Could we dim the lights please?



Ode to a Larva Lamp

O, great green globuloglobe,
Your fullonimous bulbequats crush my hambiloid.
What syberary decortment, what mabile flunction,
To awaken all Vogonity?

No - sleepless moonwarps swiftly linger.
Your silken incandecritude disgorges all sanity,
And couples with soft cumulominums.
My daredevil!

Left Behind
by davidus428

Comment:
This is a very appealing shot, and the scattered rocks lead your eyes right out to the horizon, but I think it would have even more impact if much of the bottom portion (most of the visible sand) were cropped out.

Vera Wang for men
by Melethia

Comment:
Nice find and great accidental "double portrait". It helps that his jacket is jet black and contrasts so strongly against the wedding dress, and that he's positioned enough at an angle to get a partial profile. Looks like he's seriously considering a purchase... :)

Morning swim
by Melethia

Comment:
The wonderful light and great definition in the rippling water give this image such a nice liveliness and energy. Filling the composition with all those ripples works wonders.

April Snow
by xianart

Comment:
Bleak, cold, desolate - a good capture of mood. I find myself being bothered by the slightly tilted horizon, although I admit I don't think a perfectly level horizon would improve the image. If it were level, I wouldn't be bothered, I'd be bored. :) Started this at a 7, bumping to an 8.

Breaking through the clouds
by ingvar

Comment:
Very nice, I like how this landscape reveals more of itself the more you look at it. It's possible the overall effect may be improved if you cropped out just a bit of the really dark portion of the sky at the top - it seems to me like it might be a little too much dark, that it's in danger of overwhelming the other elements in the composition.

Options
by manish

Comment:
I really like the perspective you chose, but I wish the background didn't look so washed out. Started this at a 7, bumping to an 8.

Crucis
by Federico

Comment:
Saw this in stdavidson's critique thread and was reminded that I had never got to comment on it, so I'll rectify that here. I voted this a 9, and really liked, as a number of commenters have already noted, the moodiness and mystery of the shot. Not making the people the focus of the image is key to its success for me, as is the lighting. Including the people, however marginally, did have the added benefit of provoking me to "hear" the image - that sounds crazy, but with the strong focus on the cobblestones and background hint at the pedestrians, the image moved me to recall the sound of footsteps on cobblestones. It's not every day an image comes with its own soundtrack!

My only quibble, and keep in mind it is minor - is that one of your pedestrians is carrying a pocketbook that I happen to find somewhat distracting in the image.

I just read some of your comments again and notice someone else noted "hearing" the cobblestones, too. :)