Please Don't Take my Mousie Again!!
by kandyj

Comment by lionelm:
I have been assigned this picture by the critic club and have been looking at it everyday but I keep going back to the same thing :
- it's not despair to me, not at all
- it's an other cat

The photograph commented him/herself that the forepaw is not in focus and the cough fabric too much in focus. that would have been my 2 comments in addition to the fact that that fabric is not appropriate at all for a cat picture I think.

Final Impression : I do not think it was an appropriate picture for 'despair' and , to me, it's just a "cute cat".

Lionel
for the critique club

Egg Drop Soup
by kandyj

Comment by cliff68:
Very cleaver!

Egg Drop Soup
by kandyj

Comment by MattW:
good idea

Spring Flower in Woods
by kandyj

Comment by kosmikkreeper:
Oh why oh why do we keep on seeing flowers in every challenge that have no business being there???? Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

I appologize for my blunt comment.... I guess I shouldn't post comments so early in the morning! :-) I guess you were my chosen victim! So sorry.... don't get me wrong, I don't mind pics of flowers or cats or kids.... lemme try and redeem myself....

Lighting and focus: good use of light and dark tones, the shallow DOF keeps the focus on the flower

Respect of theme: Sorry but has nothing to do, IMO, with the theme. Leading lines should be a focussed trajectory that leads your eye to a desired point in the photo. I do not see this in this photo.

cropping & composition: a part from the top petal being cut the cropping is good. The colors seem a bit washed out. You probably had a grey sky.

Yanik No hard feeling I hope. :-)

Egg Drop Soup
by kandyj

Comment by DennisF:
I believe a more symetric placement of the bowl would have been better.

Egg Drop Soup
by kandyj

Comment by kellie:
very nice

Egg Drop Soup
by kandyj

Comment by TOLady:
good shot, I can imaging the mess afterward! That alone has to be worth a few points extra!! *LOL*

Egg Drop Soup
by kandyj

Comment by KingLok:
A little noisy on the bowl...

Spring Flower in Woods
by kandyj

Comment by dacrazyrn:
Little bright in the background, but I like it. it does take some of the saturation out of the flower.

Egg Drop Soup
by kandyj

Comment by drydoc:
Enter your comment here, and then cast your vote...if only you caught it at the moment of impact!