Sonoran Desert in Spring
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Comment by autool:
A great job for bright sunlight. The petals seem to be a little oversaturated, you may have placed something to block out some of the sunlight to make the color less bright and truer. 9

Sonoran Desert in Spring
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Comment by tecent642:
makes you wonder how something so ugly can produce somethign so beautiful.

Sonoran Desert in Spring
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Comment by Gallatin:
I love all the flower shots, and yours is beautiful, colors are great and you have made nice use of the rule of thirds.

Sonoran Desert in Spring
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Comment by kandyj:
I would have liked to have seen the petal on the lower left cropped out. Love the contrast of color and graytones. The dramatic lighting also helps this photo out, along with good use of leading lines.

Sonoran Desert in Spring
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Comment by SteveS:
Nice

Sonoran Desert in Spring
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Comment by dsidwell:
Nice use of shadow to frame flower. Lovely.

Area (circle) = PI (3.1415926...) X r (radius of circle)2 (squared)
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Comment by timj351:
Critique Club critique by Tim Jensen

My last critique was a pie photo as well but this one is executed much better. As I told the last person I personally do not like these types of plays on words.

This pie looks very tasty and I like the addition of the server (whatever you call it). The red colors also makes it stand out and look even more inviting.

The composition is fine but safe. It is pretty easy to just take an overhead shot of a pie and have it look pretty good compositionally but it is also somewhat boring and overdone. There must be other cmaera angles that would look very interesting and fresh. Shooting from the side, from an angle, up close with a shallow depth of field, or any number of other ways could be effective.

Everything else is pretty good. Nice colors, well executed with good clarity and focus, effective cropping, and even a simple and tasteful border. So even though I think it is a bit of a cop out to use pie instead of Pi I still think you did a pretty good job with this photo.

Tim

Drought and the Economy
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Comment by jmsetzler:
excellent shot of weather effect... that makes my mouth dry just looking at it :) - setzler

Drought and the Economy
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Comment by cannonshooter:
very nice, great texture, contrast and composition. Sharp and great title!

Candy is Dandy, but Liquor is Quicker
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Comment by LindaLee:
Color and focus are great; not crazy about the composition, and the "lines" in your background are a little distracting.