Exuberance
by vawendy

Comment by Zoomdak:
Fantastic capture. I can't imagine improving on this photo. 10.

Lost in the Clouds
by vawendy

Comment by aberration:
Wow! Beautifully done.

Like Mother Like Son
by vawendy

Comment by Cory:
That's adorable

Lost in the Clouds
by vawendy

Comment by crayon:
strong contender here!

Exuberance
by vawendy

Comment by Bear_Music:
Whoa!

Like Mother Like Son
by vawendy

Comment by MaryO:
Really like the image; the background provides great context. It does look a little dark on my screen, though.

Like Mother Like Son
by vawendy

Comment by tjbel05:
We are napping. Do not disturb.

Angel Light
by vawendy

Comment by mpeters:
This is a very natural rendition of the scene(or at least how I'm picturing it looks in real life). Really a beautiful scene and capture. A couple of things held it back score wise for me although I still placed it in the upper part of my rankings. Hope my thoughts are informative, or at least tolerable. :)

- I really wanted to see down into the canyon that was behind the bright tree. With the power of processing, would have loved to see you bring out more detail in this area. The tree competed with the rainbow for overall compositional harmony. Slightly moderating the brightness and intensity of the tree trunk and the brightest part of the canyon walls, while bringing up the shadows slightly in other areas would have made it work better IMO. You also have some backlit grasses in the foreground that would have made a nice complement to the far off light and given a good moody/stormy feel but with the optimism of a rainbow.

I might have taken the top 1/2 to 1" off the top to reduce the amount of gray cloud showing. Keep the curvature of the bottom edge in frame.

Congrats on 4th, your range of talent photographing all types of subjects is quite broad, and very good!

Message edited by author 2023-06-24 17:33:13.

Angel Light
by vawendy

Comment by Zoomdak:
Congrats on 4th place, this is amazing!

Angel Light
by vawendy

Comment by IreneM:
Congrats Wendy, it's really a beautiful scene.