Painted Hills Fire
by JeffDay

Comment:
Wow, is this a fire? A much tighter crop might work well. with lots of sky, so you could follow the smoke (?) beeing blown over the mountain.
Great night capture with a perfect balance of separation of the mountains from the sky. With so much light polution from NYC and the suburbs, I'd have to drive 3 hours away to see a sky like this :(

Jefferson Dawn
by JeffDay

Comment:
I think I know what you tried to accomplish here. The various mountains in the foregound, layered in front of Mt Rainier (?). I feel the mood is overpowered by the bright yellow/orange part at the top. I tried to crop it to portrait with the moutain peak almost touching the top, but the low res does not do justice to the mood. May be the hi res of the original works better.

Sunflowers
by JeffDay

Comment:
I think this is one of the "weaker" shots of the bunch.
You have nice triangle of flowers, I'm afraid there are too many of them. While you can work on the yellows and the blues in the sky, there is nothing you can do about the right white cloud. You only have to worry about not blowing it out too much.
Again, this is for DPC!!! For a personal album, this is a great shot. For DPC this might be a "fast click trough".

Barn
by JeffDay

Comment:
I think this one is better in color. ooops I forgot telling you that I thought about the b/w conversion. The upper part of the shed might be too close to the mountain. Composition is great.
This is not a spectacular picture, but one I can see it in a calendar. You just expore the photo and wander around. Very calm and makes you stay long and explore.
The only point (and I'm not sure about that). The roof line just melts with the mountain silhouette. Did you try to get closer? So the outline of the shed really breaks the mountin lines? Again, as I said, that's a decision you can only make during the shooting.
The contrast between the green forground and the browish mountains work very well. Nica an warming colors.
Must have been a wonderful trip you had.

9819.jpg
by JeffDay

Comment:
I like this one a lot. A few comments if you want them.
- you have beautiful leading lines in the small stream with it's green color. they lead the viewer to the center/left, where the interesting darker mountain is. from here the eyes can go to the eft or right and are brought back where the stream is. You can tell how much I like the composition, can't you?
- crop the picture closer around the lines of the stream.
- this way you eliminate the bright band at the bottom. A bit will remain to frame/close it towards the bottom.
- if you crop it closer, you also will elimiate the left part of the montains. they are not adding anything to this picsture.
- the same with the sky. too featureless to include too much of it.
There is so much to discover you should lead the viewer.
I tried to crop it to what I tried to explain above.

I very much like the contrast between the bright patches and the darker right mountain side.

He was coming for me...
by BigK

Comment:
wouldn't this be better under nightmares?

Up, Up, and Away
by elsapo

Comment:
great composition and colors

The Passage to Eternity
by Brad

Comment:
very dramatic. It does look like a gate opening

Lazy Hunter's Dream
by Artifacts

Comment:
that's a funny capture. Did he jump onto the grill by himself as well?

A child's dream
by djofi

Comment:
Seems like someone's dream already came true. Next dream: to play with Kaka and/or Messi?