Morning flight
by Abra

Comment by posthumous:
Lovely suggestions of flight.

Morning flight
by Abra

Comment by jmritz:
Very expressive, light, color and motion.

A not so happy day at the beach
by Abra

Comment by Dphoto:
Nice photo. Good luck.

Morning flight
by Abra

Comment by hernan43:
Firey!

Fly away
by Abra

Comment by Salteh:
It's a bit too blue/contrasty for me.

Morning flight
by Abra

Comment by MargaretNet:
Beautiful, my top for this challenge, 10

Fly away
by Abra

Comment by jamesgoss:
This feels really really really overly sharpened in post. It's hard to actually focus and see any sort of detail of the dragonfly.

Fly away
by Abra

Comment by justjne:

Rumination
by Abra

Comment by Paul:
Greetings from the Critique Club:

This is a highly accomplished image; no doubt about that. I was very pleased to read your notes and find out how planned this shot was - created if you will.

The result has many compelling features; for me though, the star is not the well made silhouette but that wonderful froth of round bokeh and how it merges as we move left to produce the perfect juxtaposition and background for your subject.

I'm with you, I certainly think story-telling had a place in this challenge - more than a little too and yours works - we begin to wonder what your subject is thinking about and how her life has played out on this, the day we meet her.

Overall, this is nice work. I think it deserved a higher finish - I'm pretty sure it would've scored higher in a straight Free Study and that's not so bad is it?

Well made.

Paul

Rumination
by Abra

Comment by jmritz:
Very thoughtful. Nice to see such an honest image.