Water Dancer
by Alicia

Comment:
First off, an astonishing capture of pose and position on shallows, including both shadow and reflection. Processing brings this totally to the fore. But it also puts you in a tricky position of having to coordinate these 3 features, which compete for my attention and focus. I don't know if different framing or colour adjustment (black and white) would help. And oh, those wingtips!

Mtn Goat in the Elkhorns
by Xuko

Comment:
Framing, subject and action all good. Unfortunately the leaping forelegs are not very well defined against the albeit nicely rendered background which in these crucial areas is too busy. Magnificent beast.

Moonshiner's Side Business
by karmat

Comment:
I really need to see more focus/detail in the building/stuff/detritus. Overall, I like the brightness and for sure the quirkiness.

Storytime
by glad2badad

Comment:
This has a very sweet and classic immediacy. The strength is in the two almost sketched faces; but I think the background of checked cushion and the bright line/cord behind the woman's head seriously interfere with our enjoyment. Overall balance and composition spot on.

London
by figaro

Comment:
Don't know where to begin. This is amazing, and truly worthy of your title, a rare and precious conjunction. It reminds me of those medieval portraits where the landscape is seen through a window or archway; that is to say the arrangement and perspective have classic overtones. This is also a candid with a wealth of telling detail contained by the strong lower curve of light and upper dark arch melded with the OOF watcher. That you have achieved so much compositionally and tellingly (AND in portrait orientation) should relegate dpc-type niggles to the tiny box in which they belong.

colorful bug
by 2462mu

Comment:
The light and colour and composition are pretty good, and you managed to get the shine on the leaf and the iridescence on bug legs and spots, no small thing. Macro focus is extremely difficult even with a tripod, and at f2.8 you have to decide on a very thin plane of focus, which is a difficult call with a roundish bug. Smaller aperture would help. Good Luck.

hot streak
by parkej

Comment:
This is cool: the blocks of banding - cloud, sun streak, sea and sand make an exceptional abstract composition. I would have cropped a bit off the left, an inch or so, to emphasize the hooded figure. (Also clone out whatever that is going from the nose to the top of the hood. Not that I have ever cloned anything myself, but soon...). It would still be too dark for dpc, but not for me. Good luck.

Poetry
by zxaar

Comment:
Always interesting to find all this stuff going on, though I think your dark version with the white birds featured has a slight edge in pop.

Week 06 - Stargate
by hajeka

Comment:
Full of wonder. I keep wanting to say "oh." (Maybe that sweet repetition of circles and the open mouth). Great simplicity, letting the find speak for itself, and contrast which suggests silvery slippery and the mysterious vortexy void.

Powdered Park
by Konador

Comment:
Exquisite. Great elements, great subtlety.