Country Ways
by glad2badad

Comment by dragonwarlord98:
Wonderful shot! Very artistic/painterly! Looks great in B&W.

Dog Dayz
by glad2badad

Comment by npasel:
Refreshing creative composition.

Country Ways
by glad2badad

Comment by bcrants:
nice shot- top 5

Country Ways
by glad2badad

Comment by Luci11e:
love this! :-) so much so it's now in my favs. I'd love to see this in sepia (I'm a sepia junkie)

Country Ways
by glad2badad

Comment by jayzundel:
one of my favorites

Dog Dayz
by glad2badad

Comment by spamiam:
max?

Basketball Spin Platforms
by glad2badad

Comment by jeger:
Good capture.

Chilling 'til Springtime
by glad2badad

Comment by mattlistener:
Overly staged for a semi-natural category.

Sunlight Surprise - "Spirals"
by glad2badad

Comment by Paul:
I'm going through the entries, stopping at those images I feel have had the benefit of an unconventional eye and dwelling a little longer to try to see and appreciate what you saw. This is one of those images.

Positives: There is a minimalism that I like in this image, the way you have had faith to trust in simple light and shade. The toning is great and the juxtaposition of the sharpness and blur, accentuated by the orthogonal relationship between the shadow and cage.

Critical stuff: I think the physical limits you have placed on your composition effectively place a ceiling on the amount of interest you can glean from the scene. I think that the image is a little noisy in place and taking down the red channel a little may have helped to minimise the appearance of this (as would have localised use of a specialised noise reduction tool).

Overall: This is an effective image which I suspect off the viewer exactly what you had intended (at least that's the impression I get); there's a lot of merit in that - it offers a created feel that I enjoy in the images I view.

Chilling 'til Springtime
by glad2badad

Comment by HarveyG:
Unique. Unusual.