H h H....Hungry horse
by sfmorris

Comment by snaffles:
awwwww...lovely maternal moment, love the lines here, 9

H h H....Hungry horse
by sfmorris

Comment by liberty:
Aww so cute. Look at those little legs. Nice work. 8

Paternal Brothers
by sfmorris

Comment by eamurdock:
Great capture, and nice colors. A little less DOF would help dimish the distracting background.

Paternal Brothers
by sfmorris

Comment by Jib:
i vote this one to be third place!! good luck

Paternal Brothers
by sfmorris

Comment by carofo:
Great capture! I don't know if you just happened to be at the right place at the right time or if this is taged. Either way, it does a great job with the theme. IMO the light is a little dull but hey! can't control Mother Nature, now can we?

Paternal Brothers
by sfmorris

Comment by JoshuaRaineyPhotography:
I see that you took my advice and went for the symmetry category on this one. I looked up your last shot and I can tell that this one is different. Its great for the category but I think the tones and exposure on your last image was a bit better than this one. 8 for content.

Yearling Arabian Colt
by sfmorris

Comment by TheStick:
Beautiful animal! Nice capture!

Paternal Brothers
by sfmorris

Comment by andrea22_als:
nice timing with both of their teeth showing and everything...beautiful horses!

You scratch my back and I'll scratch yours
by sfmorris

Comment by lkn4truth:
CRITIQUE CLUB COMMENT

Congratulations on a very inique capture. My first impressions when seeing the picture was, "wow, that's cool." Wow factor is really important on DPC and you started out on the right foot. Unfortunately for me, the next thing I noticed was the "details" and right away I noticed that the horse nearest us is slightly out of focus (on the mouth). That's a killer of this strong entry because the mouth is of course where the eye is naturally going to go to see what the horses are doing. Drawing the eye to a slightly out of focus area could have hurt your score a little. Along that line, each horses head has a cheek roughly where the third lines would fall in my understanding of the rule of thrids. This means that the mouth really isn't where the third lines fall and again, my eye is taken immediately to the mouth and away from the "rule of thirds." Now here is a comment I'm struggling with. On the one hand I loved the unique take on the rule of thirds by having TWO items in the locations for the third lines (two horse heads). By the same token however, this composition takes away some of the impact of a rule of thirds shot by doing so. In other words, when I see a rule of thirds shot I expect to see one subject, clearly centered in a thirds grid. This shot has two so it doesn't give the isolated effect you might want out of a rule of thirds shot. For me, the background is a slight distraction as well. While natural, I would have liked to see a much shallower depth of field and have those trees be blurred and significantly muted. Again, I spend a moment or two looking at the background trying to figure out what exactly it was and that serves as a distraction. Your voting on the curve is a nice bell shape trending around 6 which is great and you had a ton more 9's and 10's than 1's and 2's so I think the votors agreed with me that the wow factor here was worth some extra points. I think you came close to perfection on this shot. Keep up the great work!

Yearling Arabian Colt
by sfmorris

Comment by RitaD:
Beautiful expression and wonderful capture.