Evening Light at Summer's End
by Bear_Music

Comment:
Robert - I really liked this one a lot - the softness and smoothness of the background really accentuated the flower. The one thing I noticed was some apparent artifacts from the HDR on the black eye of the flower - as if there are some unexpected magenta areas along the rim of the 'eye'

Rhapsody
by noraneko

Comment:
Cat - Excellent job on this one - gave it a 9 during voting. As I said during voting, simply beautiful!

Lovers
by zxaar

Comment:
Arjun - Very good job - loved this one during the challenge and the title really fits.

Close of Day
by sibeling

Comment:
fantastic lighting - very well composed and executed

Fire in the Sky
by SJCarter

Comment:
the sky is nice and smooth but the ground seems a bit oversharpened

Looking down
by FocusPoint

Comment:
Congrats on the Red! Really beautiful image - well deserved.

Spinning Her Web
by Ann

Comment:
Congrats on the Blue! I am so happy this won - this entry really seemed to separate itself from a really strong field of entries.

Welcome to Frog Heaven
by BrianR

Comment:
good sharp image - but there are several areas that don't quite work in my opinion.

first, there is too much clutter - why is a gingerbread man in the photo? what is the brown stuff in the background? DPC photographs usually work better when the image is simpler - less stuff means better scores

second, the background creates lighting issues - a dark background like this really makes the image seem underexposed.

Third, a recrop of the image to focus only on the frog candy would really boost the shot. the candies are pretty good and well photographed - take advantage of that...

Life Savors the Beach
by colorcarnival

Comment:
the layers of color and texture are actually quite interesting and the title is very well thought out - back for a comment and a bump

Bear-licious Treats
by SherwinJames

Comment:
good concept shot - the raft, the bears, the whales/sharks - but the lighting seems off (underexposed)