Walker
by BAMartin

Comment by Dave Gordon:
Nice perspective and sense of distance.

Tovrea Castle, Phoenix
by BAMartin

Comment by autool:
Composition: 6, Building and cactus on opposite sides of frame. This is distracting to me.
Technical: 6, Main subject is softer than foreground cactus. Use shorter depth of field.
Appeal: 5, Doesn't really keep my interest.
Challenge: 7, Weak due to composition.
Overall Calculated Average Score: 6

Walker
by BAMartin

Comment by rmtm333:
great composition and love the colour (yes I am canadian, "...our"). Seems to be out of focus which may have been your intent. With a crisp image I would have probably given at least a 7. Nice shot.

Tovrea Castle, Phoenix
by BAMartin

Comment by rkligman:
All the trees do nothing to accentuate the castle

Tovrea Castle, Phoenix
by BAMartin

Comment by e301:
Ooh but there's some weird artefactness going down here. It seems to be straight-out-of-camera aspect ratio, so I'm fairly confident in suggesting your post-rocessing is letting you down a fair bit.

Aside from which (and I expect most people will only have commented on the blocky sky), I think you have the beginnings of a good shot here - but only the beginning, I'm afraid: I like the idea of including some foreground interest, in that wall and cactus, but you seem to have had to stretch things to include them and thus relegated the interest in your main subject too much - that cactus is almost as strong a presence as the castle, and that surely isn't what you intended. But you have at least not presented a head on boring shot just of the castle, so points for that. Is it worth my suggesting you have a look round and see how other similar compsitions have been worked?

Tovrea Castle, Phoenix
by BAMartin

Comment by elemess:
I like the contrast (not the right word) between the castle and the cactus.

Walker
by BAMartin

Comment by terje:
Cool! 10

Walker
by BAMartin

Comment by whagerbaumer:
Very nice road, and autumn leaves. I like how my eye follows the path into a sunnier place.
A 9

Tovrea Castle, Phoenix
by BAMartin

Comment by mickwest:
The banding in the sky is a bit distracting. Not very sharp either, is it overcompressed, why use only 69K out of 150K?

Tovrea Castle, Phoenix
by BAMartin

Comment by Bud:
NIce photo, there is a some artifacting in the sky. It would be nice to get a clearer shot without the bushes screeneing the building.