Green (and brown horses)
by jajone

Comment:
A nice green picture, and so it first the topic of the challenge, but the composition is squarely 'snapshot.' A different crop, probably centering (interest-wise, not necessarily geometrically) on the right-hand horse, might have gotten a 9 or 10 from me.

Green
by nathaliedoo

Comment:
A great bright green picture of leaves, but there's nothing really in the image to be interesting, no center of the composition or subject for it to be 'about'.

Yields Green
by drydoc

Comment:
This has almost a snapshot feel, probably a combination of the lighting and the focus (which is either odd, or sharpened strangely in postproduction). The composition's also a little mushy - the eye isn't drawn to any one particular place, and so it wanders around to no purpose, as it were. Still, fits the theme well (nice colors).

Gritty 'n Green
by Jean

Comment:
Yes, it's 'derivative' of earlier images, but it's still a lovely execution of the 'looking through water drops' trope, and it includes a legitimate secondary color, so I'm grading it highly. :-> If the things refracted in the droplets were more appealing/interestingly composed, it might have gotten a 10 from me, in fact, given the technical skill displayed, but they aren't, so 8.

Daisies
by LindaE

Comment:
Nice sharp focus, good colors, good composition.

Purple Haze
by deborahpasternak

Comment:
Lovely shot; the focus is a little softer than I'd prefer, though, and the splash of light in the foreground distracts from the general shapes and lights above. 8, but could have been 10.

Sunset from Heaven
by jasonmccarthy

Comment:
If this were (a) bigger, (b) more detailed, and (c) better focused, it might well have gotten a 10 from me. Of course, I'm a sucker for pretty clouds with good sharp tree-silhouettes in front of them, so I'm biased. :->

Limoge
by Barb

Comment:
A beautiful piece, beautifully lit (and reflecting!)

African Daisies in a Bed of Ferns
by KING

Comment:
Love the sharp focus on the flower, soft focus on the ferns in the background. Luminous color.

My protector, my hero !
by melissarts

Comment:
The pixelation and bizarre stretch to the proportions bother me, and distract from what otherwise might be a very nice picture, making the girl look deformed.