SF Bay Area from above Berkeley
by r_sandler

Comment by e301:
Good shot. My only crit would be that losing some of the foreground darkness, especially in the bottom left, would have helped compositionally - would emphasise what is a great capture of the reflected light on the clouds. Still, exceptionally well done.

SF Bay Area from above Berkeley
by r_sandler

Comment by migidi:
Beautiful.......

SF Bay Area from above Berkeley
by r_sandler

Comment by robbieh:
Gorgeous!

SF Bay Area from above Berkeley
by r_sandler

Comment by the general:
beautiful picture

SF Bay Area from above Berkeley
by r_sandler

Comment by tiff:
amazing, i wish we all had views like this around us. good job.

SF Bay Area from above Berkeley
by r_sandler

Comment by Kavey:
An interesting image. As the top two thirds of the sky has little of interest I'd prefer to see the horizon much higher in the frame with just the interesting lower sky detail included.
6, Kavey

SF Bay Area from above Berkeley
by r_sandler

Comment by Jeileen:
WOW - great colors

SF Bay Area from above Berkeley
by r_sandler

Comment by sunflower:
Reminds me of when my husband and I courted in the Bay Area: hitting the high spots with our camera at night (San Bruno Mountain, Skyline Blvd, etc.) and took pictures. Happy memories. Thanks.

SF Bay Area from above Berkeley
by r_sandler

Comment by NicNic101:
Really awesome shot!

Inverted egg in snow
by r_sandler

Comment by Silver Fox:
Critique by Silver Fox.
Hi Sandler.

I don't know where to start on this, so to start with, please don't take this personally :}

I like photos to make me say "Wow!" Your photo does not. It's out of focus.
You should have "whitened" everything up, at least the snow a touch and then perhaps the egg another "touch" up.
There's no visual impact! There's nothing there to grab my interest, so I have to look to see what else I can see. . .

Technical qualities: The photo's not even sharp, it's not even in focus, the colours (in this case, the white's) don't even stand out and shout at me!

The low score of 3.9 on this photo may be telling you something. Is it an issue on visual impact that held your score down? There doesn't seem to be an aspect of this particular photograph to make it stand out above other shots.

Study other photographs that have been entered in the Challenges. You've got other shots that have scored high. What happened to this one? Keep trying. . . and keep up the effort.
Sincerely,
Ed