The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence
by Nuzzer

Comment:
Just a wonderful scene. I love cows and the foggy hills are perfect. (Wonder if we will have a bovine challenge anytime soon?)

Respect
by laposto

Comment:
There is a story here.

A Quiet Conversation
by Ristyz

Comment:
What a moment! And perfect light on top of it. I am curious if this just happened and you snapped the moment, or if it was staged. Either way, I love it.

Blue Skies & Daisies
by signal2noise

Comment:
Glad to see you entered this one. Very nice portrait of a pretty woman. As often as I have seen her now, I am assuming this is your wife? (No vote, comment only)

Bad Lands
by silverhawk

Comment:
Has been longtime, but Grog is pleased to see hometown again. How is old man Oog doing? And Looga? At 18 sun cycles Looga still had most of teeth left. Very beautiful. Many wanted her. Grog remembers well.

Their Honeymoon Was Off to a Rocky Start
by Dr.Confuser

Comment:
I like the shot, but if I could nitpick, I don't feel the selective desat was right for it. Both the color and mono areas look great, they just don't look right together to me.

What a wonderful world
by Oded

Comment:
I like the overall scene, but I think you went overboard on the processing. It looks like the boy was cut and pasted into the scene.

Spring at last
by beekeeper

Comment:
Watch your JPEG compression amount. I see the beginning of some compression artifacts in her face. At 188k file size, you could have used less compression and avoided that. Compression kills detail. Always use the least you can and still fit into the challenge limits.

train wreck
by xtian

Comment:
Strange and very different. I like it.

Coastline view
by Melethia

Comment:

Originally posted by SaraR: I have to admit I am fairly ambivalent about this photo - I don't think this standard view of seeing the landscape suits your eye, photo vision, style. I far prefer your street work, urban landscapes, and quirky urban landscape details.

An interesting observation. There has definitely been a shift in your primary subjects since moving from Germany to California. Perhaps that is part of the issue. Perhaps you just need to "find your groove" to utilize a tired cliche. 5 1/4 is not a bad entry at all, it just missed the broad appeal mark and is a bit lower than you are used to.

This was also a tough challenge for many of us. Even DrAchoo only managed in the mid-5's, and left a remark on his own entry saying "Basic editing sucks". The combination of b/w plus basic editing made this one of the harder challenges, IMO. My own scores have been roughly in the same area as your own.

Message edited by author 2010-05-03 22:09:20.