Bucket Brigade
by GeneralE

Comment by avb:
Must have a third eye to get this picture. Excellent.

Nature's Bandage
by GeneralE

Comment by Gekker:
cool scab

Searching For Signs Of Intelligent Life...
by GeneralE

Comment by RiderGal:
Talya's Critique (critique club on break)
This is a really beautiful and striking photo. I really like it!
Composition - beautiful, it wouldn't be half as good if you didn't have the extra layer of clouds at the very top. I might have cropped a little more off the bottom as it seems to lose some of the detail that the rest of the photo has.

Lighting - really superb, I love the colors that the light allows here. The extra bright spot at the very top is slightly annoying but not terrible.

Focus - excellent the overall clarity is really nice.

Exposure - great job with this!

Fit the challenge - really well, it's obvious there is no hand of man, and it's beautiful also. Definitely the best cloud picture of the challenge!

Overall - I gave this a 9. I thought it was really lovely! Nice job.

Bucket Brigade
by GeneralE

Comment by catpixel:
lots of folks won't get this, me thinks.

Male Stripper
by GeneralE

Comment by RiderGal:
Talya's critique (Critique club on break)
I understood this photo right from the beginning, even without the title, you could understand what your job was. I'm not sure why you placed where you did, you should have placed better.

composition - I think it's pretty good composition. good use of the rule of thirds and also good use of lines leading to your hand. Nice job on this.

exposure - this must have been really tough. with the bright background you did a fairly good job of getting your hand in there. Wish you could see it a little more clearly but it's understandable why it had to be this way.

Lighting - with the exception of the hand the rest is very well done. Nice job! no hotspots and very equally lit.

focus - perfect, no complaints here. I love the way you can read the whole thing. Excellent job.

fits the challenge - perfect. Excellent job with putting in the human aspect to really show what was happening here. I think it was very understandable what you were trying to do.

overall - i think this was a fairly good picture, it loses maybe a point or two for not being an extremely interesting photo, but the title helps with that. Overall I gave it a 7 very good job!

-Talya

Nature's Bandage
by GeneralE

Comment by togtog:
I can't make out what this is supposed to be, from the title I would say a scab but it doesn't look like that to me, sorry. - togtog

Nature's Bandage
by GeneralE

Comment by SSonnentag:
Is this skin under a microscope?

Nature's Bandage
by GeneralE

Comment by RiderGal:
I'm really not sure what you were going for here... I'm guessing you got quite a few of these as comments. Judging by the title, the best I can guess is that this is a picture of a scab, but I highly doubt it. Sorry, but seeing as how I can't tell what I'm looking at. It's not a very pleasing view, there is no point of focus, and the corners are fairly blurry I have to give this a low rating. Email me if you want and let me know what this is. Thanks!

Male Stripper
by GeneralE

Comment by Swashbuckler:
Paul, this one got ripped! You should have placed much higher than dead middle. Not too many comments to go on, but it seems your title was a tad too clever. I gave you a 9. I liked it! Great shot!

Nature's Bandage
by GeneralE

Comment by Wes:
I'm assuming this is an extremely close up shot of some part of the body... The shot itself looks like some sort of abstract. I like the color of the shot, the blue tones are nice. From an abstract view point this shot is really nice, I like it. From the view of the challenge, it's not the greatest.