Road Trip
by drdab99

Comment:
a very creative idea! A map reflected with the country it represents.. perhaps a non-tinted window would really have given vibrance to your idea. I notice too that its a bit grainy which can often add a lot of character to a picture, but I'm not too sure it achieves anything great for me here. Good luck in the challenge! :)

Floaters
by frisca

Comment:
thanks so much for the comments. I was a bit limited by both my equipment, which seems to love soft focus on everything! and the fact that I couldn't exactly pick the lighting on these guys. If I had seen indigo's jellyfish before I submitted this, I probably wouldn't have! :) I tried to play with levels,etc, but there just wasn't the info there to bring these guys out.

Her Guardian Spirit
by tjb3022

Comment:
I'm unsure what that ball of light is..is it a light in the tree?

Hey little fellow! What's your hurry?
by Harz_Joerg

Comment:
I think I might have cropped a bit more off the top of the frame. Very nice lighting here though, and good focus and DOF.

Signaling the alarm,warning twins a year apart!
by Dim7

Comment:
I really like the composition and great job getting most of them to look your way! It is a bit dark though, and I have this same problem with the way I take shots where the subject is dark but there is a lot of surrounding light (as it appears here, like an early morning shot), so at the risk of being impertinent, what did you focus and meter on when you took this shot?

Female Eastern Amberwing
by scw1217

Comment:
the brightness of the green and the detail on the bug do it for me..those wings! unreal focus, teeny tiny bit soft but still detailed. Very well done! I just bumped this to a 10. :)

At Rest
by qm_kitten

Comment:
beautiful detail on the butterflies wings, I also like the colour in the background, it adds a bit of contrast and detail without interfering with the subject. :)

Yearling Big Horn Sheep - Colorado Fauna
by jimsapp

Comment:
this is a great shot, but for his missing legs! The backdrop is breathtaking and offers enough contrast to the sheep to bring him out, though the transition from green to rock distracts some. :)

Michigan Garter Snake
by connie

Comment:
I'm not the biggest lover of snakes, reptilian or otherwise, but this one I really liked, the lighting was spot on, like a bright sunny day without too letting any of the shadows get in the way, and a nice shallow DOF to keep the attention focussed on the snakes head, and not the leaves and twigs it was moving about in. 9

Wild Flowers
by rcrawford

Comment:
I can't stop looking at this picture, its absolutely gorgeous. I hope you offer this as a print. Congratulations on a well deserved blue ribbon!