Colorado and Mountains
by vtruan

Comment by sfalice:
Truly, you met the Challenge perfectly (and by using 3rds too). Hope you didn't get frostbite getting the image!

Colorado and Mountains
by vtruan

Comment by Drake:
Beautiful!

Colorado and Mountains
by vtruan

Comment by Mona:
Fantastic.

Colorado and Mountains
by vtruan

Comment by Koriyama:
The stretch to the challenge is a bit tenuous. However, this shot has nice composition and interesting elements. The dark foreground is a bit off-putting, though. 5

A Snowy Night
by vtruan

Comment by welcher:
This is a neat shot, though I can't see how it was "painted with light". I didn't mark down because of that, though. The problem with this shot is two fold. Most importantly, whatever lighting you applied (flash? flashlight?) served to do nothing but highlight the snow falling directly in front of you. It's kinda distracting. Second, the composition is a bit off. I think the trees on the left that are almost incidental in this shot could have been reframed to serve as a lovely "border" for the photo.

Close-up Feather
by vtruan

Comment by Harz_Joerg:
Greetings from the Critique Club

Initial thoughts/My opinion
Great play of colour and texture/lines. Too artistic and not scientific enough to fit for NG IMO.

Content/Composition
What a colourful image! I like the bended lines and also how you arranged them along the diagonal. Having the upper right more blurred is nice too. The compositional problem I do have with the image is the fact that it is not clear at all what I am looking at. Even with the title I don't know what part of a feather and what bird's feathers I see. Thus having more in focus would have worked better IMO.

Camera work -technically
Focus is way too narrow, even the sharpest parts are not very clear. Light and exposure are fine.

Digital Processing - Technical
No issue here. Seems that not much digital work has been applied and it is also not necessary too.

Fits the challenge
Here I see the problem I and the voters had: it's more an artistic image and not one of the very clear and crisp NG-images one has in mind. Showing microscopic features do fit for NG but it should be more like "Aha, that's how things look in detail!" and not "What is it?".

Good luck for your upcoming submissions

A Snowy Night
by vtruan

Comment by banmorn:
the white balance might have been chosen better in this...do like the relative quick shutter speed used I'm guessing with a high speed and flash and the capture of the flakes of snow, but that eechy color from about two third down up is not pleasing.

Cancer (Planet -The Moon)
by vtruan

Comment by Nuno:
Good photo but what does it have to do with cancer?

Cancer (Planet -The Moon)
by vtruan

Comment by brett2004:
Great detail! Nice shot, I know it isn't easy to get this good of a shot of the moon. Good job!

A Snowy Night
by vtruan

Comment by admart01:
This is such a good idea. The near snow distracts my eye from the rest of the composition