Cat Calendar
by cgino

Comment:
I loved the Maui poster - brilliant colours streaking here and there, set off against the black - something you could enjoy as an abstract. Here I am confused by the overlay and framing: the strength is in your cats, and the way you have caught their eyes, different postures and settings. I would think vignetting or haloing if anything. (Maybe hard to judge coming from the big splash of Maui!).

#3 Vase
by Sonifo

Comment:
From the thumbnail I thought this would be interesting but I wasn't sure about the vignetting, but now I see it, everything seems to be very well put together, even the frame working with the composition. Excellent use of black, turning the whites into ice/diamonds.

up before sunset
by desertoddity

Comment:
Pretty much what glad2badad said, especially about your photo's strengths.

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.