lizard love
by rinac

Comment:
Congratulations Rina on your 5th Place. Great score too.

Llandudno
by JamesA

Comment:
Jay, this was one of my top picks. Lovely image and I feel it should have scored higher. Well done though, it's great.

Despair
by Zigomar

Comment:
Well, what a surprise that this was yours. It was my top score in this challenge. :)

Wardrobe malfunction
by Melethia

Comment:
Very British seaside scene. And for the record, it's a windbreaker. I think the name is self explanatory. :) Very often located on the beach in the UK as it is known to get quite windy from time to time.

rainy day
by Lutchenko

Comment:
Oh, the joy of a British Summer!

Arthur Erickson: MoA 4
by zeuszen

Comment:
Oh there is so much about this that I like. Starting off with the B&W conversion and the vignette. The image itself is so simple and yet... Great stuff.

Arthur Erickson: MoA 3
by zeuszen

Comment:
Wonderful light and interesting patterns. Lovely

Time
by fiona

Comment:
Greetings from the Critique Club

First Impression: Good looking bunch of preserved flowers that have retained their colour well. Fits the challenge well.

Composition The flowers are well placed in the frame, although I personally agree with Jutilda that the ribbon is maybe unnecessary. I know the black ribbon helps put the flowers into context, but I think the flowers could stand on their own.

I like the muted tones, the colours do work well for this image.

Overall I think this was a rather low score and in my opinion it was worth more than 5.37. So I am sorry for that.

Somewhere In Between
by thelogenator

Comment:
Greetings from the Critique Club

First of all let me congratulate you on a good score on your first challenge submission!

As far as fitting the challenge, I think it was definitely a little bit different and so likely scored well due to that.

I like the composition and find the extra rock gives the image some context, but I think it may be interesting to see it without too.

From a technical point of view, I find the main subject to be a bit soft. It looks to me like it has been quite heavily cropped. Not in itself a big problem, but typically the sharper an image is, the better it will do on DPC.

Overall a good first challenge entry.

Circle of Life
by stfleck

Comment:
Greetings from the Critique Club

As far as meeting the challenge is concerned, this one does, but it's not extremely original. There were several images with a similar subject, so you may have been dinged on your score due to lack of originality.

The composition is OK, although the background is quite busy. You may have been able to isolate the flowers a bit better by opening up the aperture thus blurring the background a bit better. It would also have allowed you to use a faster shutter speed which should have given you a sharper image.

Technicals. The lighting appears to be a bit flat leaving the image a little bit dull. You could possibly have boosted this a bit in post processing. Speaking of post processing to my eye the image seems to be a little bit over sharp. Could just be my eyes, but...