Mick Fanning (AUS)
by gliphix

Comment:
Just stumbled across this image in your portfolio/challenge entries. Beautiful action photo, as someone else said, it's pro-magazine worthy.

Wide Awake in a Dream
by MAK

Comment:

Originally posted by MAK: Yep. it certainly is a bird

Man, that's amazing. It really is dreamlike. Thanks kindly for answering my question.
- Larry in NYC

Exploration
by annig

Comment:
Terrific photo. Love the late day sky in the same shot with the foreground sparkles. Best of all, the human presence.

Quiet
by Haneck

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Hi, Haneck. This was also one of my 10s, and I do think it was way underrated. Sometimes I don't connect with a photo if the animal is facing away from the camera, but in this location it makes perfect sense and complements the half-silhouette of the other horse. Plus you've got the lovely tail contrasting so nicely with the darker browns and blacks. Good textures, tones -- don't let the relatively low placement determine how you feel about this photo.

Salem
by SnapperL

Comment:
You're scaring me. :-)
I'm also smiling because you put this in the Family & Portraiture galleries. Not your usual family photo, unless you're the Addams family, I think.

electricity
by UrfaK

Comment:
Just the right look for a powerline photo. Nicely composed, too.

dawn at the rock
by hotpasta

Comment:
Great shot. I should have recognized the subject from your earlier blue ribbon photo. What really grabs me on seeing this again is how the wave makes a circle around the rock. Terrific light rays, too. Congrats!

Gray Connemaras
by Photonurd

Comment:
As someone else said, sculptural. I actually thought for a moment they might be statues. This was one of the ten 10s I gave in this challenge. Shocked to see you didn't make the top 25 at least.

Natures Progression - Beginning to the End
by landcamera

Comment:
Jace, is this a time lapse? It's awesomely done no matter. I was happy to give this one of the ten 10s I awarded this challenge (and trust me, I rarely pay much heed to flower photos!).

Wide Awake in a Dream
by MAK

Comment:
Sorry you didn't reach your dream score, but this is a great photo -- one of my 10s this round. I sort of want to raise the camera half an inch, but I respect your composition. Out of curiosity, would like to know what the black spot is above the deer on the left. It looks like a bird is sitting on his back, but that couldn't be so, could it?