Orange and Green Wildflower
by carolee

Comment:
A very straightforward, head-on macro shot of a blossom. There's nothing that particularly excites me about it, but it's executed in a very technically-proficient way, so I have to give props for that. :-> Would make a good mousepad or coaster, I think.

Charge!
by dadas115

Comment:
oh, WOW. Great macro. 9. I freely admit that the only reason it didn't get a 10 from me is my own, personal, idiosyncratic preference for a slightly deeper DOF in this case - the blur sets in so soon that I start thinking I need to adjust my glasses.

Prism²
by crabappl3

Comment:
A truly ambitious concept, executed fairly well ... but I rated this 9 instead of 10 because the sheer muddle of all the vertical bars of color is mildly vertigo-inducing. Maybe a few more-defined stripes instead of so many tiny blades of colored grass (as it were) would have peaked at 'perfect' for me. Or maybe not. Good shot, though!

Green Creature
by mullany1957

Comment:
NICE crisp shot! I've shot frogs, and I know how tough it can be to get them to cooperate. Only the straightforward, almost journalistic style of composition keeps this a 9 from me instead of a 10 - if it had seemed more 'arty,' as it were, if there were an emotional tone or a visceral reaction given (rather than just \"Oh, wow, what an outstanding photo of a bullfrog!"), I would have tenned it. Still, well done!

Orange Green and Purple
by sg10

Comment:
Lovely macro; good choice to have the entire flower sharp and the background fuzzed. Looks like something from a seed catalog, almost - advertising the plant or breed.

Drink to colors
by Becky

Comment:
The pixelization and overprocessing distracts from the image, and the composition in general isn't particularly interesting (no particular place the eye is directed).

Tears of Innocense
by ska120s

Comment:
It's tight, dark, and overly, self-consciously precious, IMHO. I'd have sacrificed a little size for a bit more sharpness, and perhaps cropped away the distracting extra cheek on the left there. Well, that and added a bit more light. But that's me. :-> Also, I really don't see how this fits the challenge, particularly, so I'm leaving room ahead of this in my marks for things that made the color central.

purple
by Crafty Sue

Comment:
The focus on the iris is a little muddy, and there's no real center of attention for the photograph, to me - nothing to look at, for the picture to be about.

secondary color mixture
by Dustin

Comment:
I really don't get how this applies to the theme at all, so I have to grade it down to leave room at the top for folks who *did* shoot to theme. Also, I find the pixelation/weave texture, as well as the overexposure and lack of middle tones, distracting.

Sunset in my stomach except not in my stomach and instead in the sky
by Asexaul duck

Comment:
Love it. If it were a little bigger (and therefore a little more detailed), it might have been a 9 or 10 for me; as it is, 8. :->