Group of people relaxing at a bar
by jmespiga

Comment by jmespiga:

Originally posted by bobnospum: I am confused with why this placed so low. While I did not think it was a top pick -- I had about in the middle with my scoring. The 3 ladies tell an interesting story and it meets the challenge, unlike several other submissions. The background and the hand blocking the face were slight detractions, but in no way is the a brown ribbon photo. Ahhh welll.... DPC.

Really the challenges (for me) are just suggestions to create the photos I believe in. Really I am not very interested in the scoring.
Anyway, thank you very much for your comment

Group of people relaxing at a bar
by jmespiga

Comment by bobnospum:
I am confused with why this placed so low. While I did not think it was a top pick -- I had about in the middle with my scoring. The 3 ladies tell an interesting story and it meets the challenge, unlike several other submissions. The background and the hand blocking the face were slight detractions, but in no way is the a brown ribbon photo. Ahhh welll.... DPC.

Group of people relaxing at a bar
by jmespiga

Comment by tnun:
we want to know what she, on the left, is saying; we want to say no, please don't light that cigarette; and we are wondering about getting a flying fish hat.

full of life.

Compositin with the shadow as the focal point
by jmespiga

Comment by PennyStreet:
This is cool.

Compositin with the shadow as the focal point
by jmespiga

Comment by vawendy:
I really liked this a lot, at first, but a small, nit-picky thing, kept bothering me. I wish you would have straightened this along the roof edge. A perspective correction would have made it a little too perfect and would have taken away some of the charm. But the roof edge going up, such a small amount, comes across as more of a mistake than an intentional choice. Straightened it along the top or the edge of the roof would still have the vertical bars a bit wonky, but would be easier on the eye. 9 for the find. 8 for the processing.

(feel free to disagree. It's when I find something that I like a lot, I try to figure out what I like and what I don't. It's so much easier to critique someone else's work. :) But that helps me be more critical of my own.)

Mixture of landscape and cityscape with palms
by jmespiga

Comment by Art Roflmao:
Composition: 3
Technical: 5
Creativity: 5
Appeal: 3
Challenge: 4
Overall Calculated Average Score: 4 bump to 5
I wonder what it would look like if you shifted the focus to the distant background - you know, where the LANDSCAPE is. 😉

Mixture of landscape and cityscape with palms
by jmespiga

Comment by PennyStreet:
A splendid surprise of a photograph. SO original. I love it.

Convent Los Frailes in Carmona
by jmespiga

Comment by posthumous:
lovely blur

Minimalistic composition with a white chimney
by jmespiga

Comment by PennyStreet:
I like the picture but it just doesn't feel anything like minimalism to me.

Old man on the beach of Roquetas de Mr
by jmespiga

Comment by Art Roflmao:
Composition: 8
Technical: 9
Creativity: 7
Appeal: 8
Challenge: 7
Overall Calculated Average Score: 8