Centered
by kanaj

Comment by MaryO:
Centered both ways. My brain wants to move the tree over horizontally till it's more on a rule of thirds. Force of habit ;-)

Centered
by kanaj

Comment by Eagle40Fox2:
I find the fence distracting, but the image overall is great. 9

Still Open
by kanaj

Comment by Spork99:
I don't really care for the edge treatment, but that's just my preference. When I look at it, I want to crop the window on the far left to get rid of the blue and a bit of the foreground to make the blue chairs the visual center.

Afternoon Congregation
by kanaj

Comment by Ragga2000:
Oh this is kinda funny :) There is one head missing which doesnt do anything for the picture IMHO but it´s a nice picture in a way....7

The bats take flight
by kanaj

Comment by FocusPoint:
This is amazing... very impressive view!

unbothered
by kanaj

Comment by PennyStreet:
lovely softness.

The bats take flight
by kanaj

Comment by tnun:
the silhouettes of the people ground this nicely.

The bats take flight
by kanaj

Comment by posthumous:
lovely sense of motion and time. 10

Anemones for Sale
by kanaj

Comment by ericwoo:
Hey there from the Critique Club

It seems like the Critique Club is somewhat defunct, but let's try to change that.

My thoughts on the image:Initially, the color pops and grabs my eye. I like your composition, and I think you met the challenge sufficiently.

My ideas for improvement: I think one thing that would improve the image greatly is definitively picking a depth of field. I would like to see the main portion of the subject foreground in sharp focus, with the rest compressed, or I would like to see the whole image crisply focused. That 5.6 aperture got 'most' of the flowers in focus, but not all, and not just the select foreground.

Where I would have/did score this entry:I did not vote in this one, as I am just coming back around to the site, but I feel like this one score pretty fairly. With a more selective and a little more post-processing to make those colors even more vivid, I believe that this capture would have scored a bit higher.

Thank you for the opportunity to provide a critique on your entry,
Eric

The bats take flight
by kanaj

Comment by nam:
Surprisingly effective for a silhouette and a top pick for me. I think it works for both photojournalism and art (which is kind of unusual).