Dad´s Flower
by Mona

Comment by squirrel:
wow! lovely colour!

Dad´s Flower
by Mona

Comment by jmsetzler:
beautiful orchid.. i would have leveled out the background to make it completely black and not let the lace patterns show through...

Avocado-salad
by Mona

Comment by inspzil:
Greetings from the Critique Club
By Inspzil

Composition - Nice colorful array of stuff in a bowl. Not particularly compelling as a subject. But there are many great photographs of very boring things that do particularly well here. First I just wanna say that I really don't find anything "wrong" here. The only thing that bugged me even mildly was that the bowl wasn't centered perfectly vertically, but that's not much to complain about. I guess for my money, it isn't what you did with this photo, but what you didn't do with it that bothers me the most. With not-so-compelling subjects, It is necessary as photographers to do our best to MAKE them interesting. The dead above straight on angle is probably not the answer the large majority of the time. The angle and the lighting are just really flat and totally predictable. That can be good in some applications. I don't find it useful here.

Technical - Not quite as sharp as it could be most likely due to the very long shutter speed at 1/15sec. If you didn't take this from a tripod you probably should have. Besides that, maybe the color could've used a little adjustment but I think that's all up to you and how everything looked for real. Everything looks a little magenta to me.

Overall - Not a bad image, but lacking the pop that accompanies a good one. To me, it needs a new fresh interesting perspective. It may be something that is very easy to do. It might just be taking some extra shots, everytime you shoot, from an unusual perspective just to make sure you didn't miss anything. What the hell right? it doesn't cost you anything. I'm not an expert by any means, but I've found that you can use ordinary around the house stuff and make interesting photos. Best of luck on the challenges ahead - Bob

Zella
by Mona

Comment by Flash:
Majestic view.

Music
by Mona

Comment by Flash:
Great candid. Well framed.

Dad´s Flower
by Mona

Comment by vtruan:
Nice orchid.

Dad´s Flower
by Mona

Comment by Ornis:
Nice and gracious orchid. Direct light is too strong, specially contributing to overexpose the right bottom part. You could have made this one with some backlighting to enhance the flower texture by just a bit of transparency. It's sharp and the dark background help isolating the flower beauty.

Walk In Shadows
by Mona

Comment by Flash:
8. Quite picturesque. Nice framing.

Feeling Blue
by Mona

Comment by amsmyth:
I liked this quite a lot - what kind of flower is it?

Got Any Milk?
by Mona

Comment by amsmyth:
That is an absolutely enchanting hedgehog..love crop and iamge