We are not Siamese twins
by kasaba

Comment by kiwinick:
what a nice natural photo I like it

Vote 7

Only your boots are left
by kasaba

Comment by Cyrilda:
So far this is my favorite. I love the composition and the haziness with the boots. 10

Only your boots are left
by kasaba

Comment by kiwinick:
Boy does this picture tell the story on loneliness.

Vote 7

Spiral of Ying and Yang
by kasaba

Comment by mariuca:
Oh, just call it fosil. Or the dragon's rest
Bump

Spiral of Ying and Yang
by kasaba

Comment by GeorgesBogaert:
Did you start with a rooftop?
Nice modern take on the ying yang
An 8 from me

Spiral of Ying and Yang
by kasaba

Comment by kiwinick:
Great image makes a good statement

Vote 6

Red Peppers
by kasaba

Comment by kasaba:

Originally posted by Bear_Music: Whoa! Here I am scrolling along voting bright, bright, BRIGHT red pictures, then WHOMP! It's the Cave where Red was born! In a lot of ways I like this a lot, but for me it's not as well-realized as it could have been. A little careful work in post in the darkest part of the peppers to bring them up half a zone or so would have provided a boost to the 3-dimensionality of the image. The empty space to the right isn't helping you at all, all the more so because the pepper/BG division is so danged vertical. It's such and abrupt stoppage. I'd love to see one more pepper low and in the back on the right, fading into the cave :-) Also it would be great if you could change the WB on the bottom-most reflection so it was a lot less blue... A 7 from me.

Thank you so much for this long and detailed comment :-), really appreciate it. I had not thought about another pepper in the BG, I tried a few different placements of the peppers, but liked this the best (of what I took). I HAD thought and even done a few versions where the peppers in the front especially are just a notch brighter, and I like them much better, but this was "minimal" editing .... I may be totally wrong, but I thought non of that was allowed in Minimal?

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Red Peppers
by kasaba

Comment by tnun:
I like the gloom from which the peppers emerge. I disagree with Bear's critique: if you did what he says to do, I think it would lose that sense of emergence.

Red Peppers
by kasaba

Comment by Bear_Music:
Whoa! Here I am scrolling along voting bright, bright, BRIGHT red pictures, then WHOMP! It's the Cave where Red was born! In a lot of ways I like this a lot, but for me it's not as well-realized as it could have been. A little careful work in post in the darkest part of the peppers to bring them up half a zone or so would have provided a boost to the 3-dimensionality of the image. The empty space to the right isn't helping you at all, all the more so because the pepper/BG division is so danged vertical. It's such and abrupt stoppage. I'd love to see one more pepper low and in the back on the right, fading into the cave :-) Also it would be great if you could change the WB on the bottom-most reflection so it was a lot less blue... A 7 from me.

Red Peppers
by kasaba

Comment by thompp1:
Good arrangement and composure, but slightly dark on my monitor.