the dreamery
by skewsme

Comment by MaryO:
Queen Anne's Lace? Love the pastels and that tiny sliver of focus amidst the softness.

October
by skewsme

Comment by PennyStreet:
I was your 8. Print worthy.

the dreamery
by skewsme

Comment by tjbel05:
I like the dreaminess of this but it is very busy IMHO

October
by skewsme

Comment by tnun:
always good to have some hard candy.

October
by skewsme

Comment by glad2badad:
This feels like it could use a little more DOF. Maybe. But then it could be cluttered. Gah. Tough choice. :-)

la mode gothique
by skewsme

Comment by tnun:
what wealth, what a panoply of scores.

pigeons are brilliant collectively, by the way, caring for and mourning one another. we might learn something.

October
by skewsme

Comment by PennyStreet:
Splendiferous light. Fall at it's best.

la mode gothique
by skewsme

Comment by PennyStreet:
Consistently absurd. I like it.

la mode gothique
by skewsme

Comment by glad2badad:
Did you go to the local bird aviary or zoo?

Be the light
by skewsme

Comment by kanaj:
I really dug this one, too. I think if you had simply used that negative space in the bottom left for some stylized "Be the light." text, this would have scored higher.

If it was me, I might have experimented, too, with cropping for horizontal perspective (you'd still have plenty of the swarm for context) and selectively desaturating all but that glorious luna moth. But that might have made a slightly different artistic statement than you were going for.