Get on the Wild side!
by haze

Comment:
Jane, this one is sweet! Congrats on the new PB. You will be ribboning soon with shots such as these.

The Gunfighter
by Canonguy39

Comment:
Love the composition and the lighting. This one made me smile. Kind of problematic to use an "action" figure for a "still" life, which probably hurt your score.

Hattiesburg train station
by cowboy221977

Comment:
The centered composition makes it kind of static, try looking for other angles. The red brick roof is kind of interesting, perhaps using more of the roof would add interest. Also you should watch your horizon, which while not visable here, but seems to be off as the tower seems to be leaning left.

The border is really wide and takes my eye away from the photo. The best borders are so complimentaty to the photo that you do not notice them.

Here is my tower, while we are all comparing them (it has its own problems).

Swamp Cedar
by Teafran

Comment:
All those nice comments you write and you only get two. Definately not fair.

Love the tree with all the details, really a photo that you can look at for a while. I think the composition either needs to pull back a little and get the tree on the thirds or crop in more and have the tree fill the frame.

The crack of dawn
by Yo_Spiff

Comment:
Way to go! What a perfect tree with such surreal colors. Sorry to see you leave the minor leagues and step up to play with the big boys. Your always welcome to come back and visit us ordinary non-ribbon folk. We will keep the beer cold and the pizza hot for you :) Big congratulations, very well deserved.

Yahtzee
by rrdjserv

Comment:
I really like this one a lot. I love how the real dice interact with the dice on the box.

I think I can, I think I can...
by Yo_Spiff

Comment:
Nice find. I really like the colors, DOF, and the unique viewpoint. I think the centered composition with the red light almost dead center may have knocked it down a little in the scoring. A squarish crop of the right hand side seems a strong composition. Also trying to put the red light on the thirds in csmera and keeping the retangular crop may have looked cool as well.

Riding a Tilted Horizon
by dbeau

Comment:
As an FYI, the voters can and do vote using any criteria they want. Search the furum of "DNMC" and you will find tons of differnet opinions on the subject. There have been and will be obvious DNMC photos that win ribbons. Likewise "just a tiny bit DNMC" photos will get hammered for DNMC and score low. Not much you can do but grin and bear it.

I do find it odd the that the SC would provide an opinion on DNMC at all. And I certainly would not take such an opinion to mean any thing at all given the diverse opinions on this site with respect to DNMC.

Nice photo by the way. You title may not have helped your cause as the horizon is not really visable. Perhaps "Coaster on a Tilt" or something similar would have made them lesss likely to look for a traditinal horizon. Another techique to try would be a slower shutter speed to make a deliberate blur, sometimes this can be a cool way of showing motion. Of course sometimes it also looks like crap. Have fun.

The City Past the Hill
by AP

Comment:
Very nicely done. The cloud-like light bloom is perhaps the reason that it scored below average. Other than that this is a stellar photograph.

End of the Line
by Moose408

Comment:
Well done. I'd have thought this would score higher. Sometimes real and gritty just does not do as well in the scoring as staged and pretty at DPC. Its too bad.