natural selection
by arsenal

Comment by gazdi:
Interesting background, cool effect of moving the lenscap. Hope you did it with a "3in1" expo.

natural selection
by arsenal

Comment by amandalore:
heehehehe... I like your title. did you paint your lens cap? nice composition and detail, in this case the contrast works well for your idea, maybe a little sharpening then??

natural selection
by arsenal

Comment by LalliSig:
Cool texture on the lenscap, nice that it fits in with the backround. Got a 7 from me.

natural selection
by arsenal

Comment by diablo2097:
just wondering what the other nikon words are?

bria
by arsenal

Comment by annah:
Interesting composition that has strange apeal to it...nice!

into the green
by arsenal

Comment by annah:
oohh, cool. Not sure exactly what I'm looking at here, but i like it anyway ;-) Has a nice sort of abstract mood about it.

stream of life
by arsenal

Comment by Rikki:
Greetings from the Critique Club

My first impression when I saw this image pulled from the queue is that the sky is blown out. A pity really because the rest of the composition lends to a dramatic image. The curves of the stream works really well adding fancy and interest throughout the composition. The grass seems a bit oversharpened as some of the details are lost in the mix. The right side of the image seems a tad dark and I am viewing this from my bright monitor so I can only suspect that this seems a bit dark for most.

Timing is everything in landscape images. I would suggest reshooting this image at dusk - the magic hour as we call it. the skies would have had beautiful coloration to them and the sun wouldn't be as harsh as it is now.

I hope that in the interest of improvement, you see this critique as being constructive and helpful in your pursuit for improvement. You have some beautiful images in your portfolio and this just seems to be slightly off from what you normally are comfortable with as far as editing styles go. Last minute entries most often don't do all that well since you won't have any chance to review them. Give it time like everything else and you will deifnitely reap the rewards later.

Feel free to PM me if you have any questions at all and I will definitely get back to you as soon as I can ;)

Cheers,

Rikki

stream of life
by arsenal

Comment by jeaglej:
I like this pic a lot. I don't agree with the majority of the comments posted.

stream of life
by arsenal

Comment by weisz:
i like this photo, but the sky seems overexposed.

stream of life
by arsenal

Comment by JunieMoon:
The highlights are really overblown on the sky, the water, the sand,etc. Birds are a nice touch. That is probably my favorite part of the entire scene.