Cold Refreshing Water
by ladpupmoe

Comment by gsquiggle:
K how'd you do that? Is that a red back light? is it a glass?

A Face only a Mother Could Love Turkey Vulture
by ladpupmoe

Comment by cools98:
I don't know if even a mother could love this face!

Fit Challenge Criteria: 2/2
Color/Contrast: 1/2
Composition: 1/2
Photo Quality: 0/2
My Subjective Affinity: 0/2

The background lookds really distorted, like a bad filter was applied to make it look sketched, or really posterized or something. The bird (is that what it is?) is not very sharp, especially in the face where you are drawing the attention, and the rooftop is almost completely blown out. The winds and feathers are very nicely exposed and very sharp. Nice work on those!

Cold Refreshing Water
by ladpupmoe

Comment by Jutilda:
Great capture. The angled bottle helps. The lighting and color is quite effective. 8

A Face only a Mother Could Love Turkey Vulture
by ladpupmoe

Comment by Olyuzi:
Contrast is too high as you've lost detail in the black wings and the highlights of the roof shingles are almost blown. This would be a very good shot if you could see more of the wings detail.

A Face only a Mother Could Love Turkey Vulture
by ladpupmoe

Comment by Jinjit:
I'm not taking points off my vote for a title, but I think your title's not as good as it should. Try loosin the explanation in it. A simple "A Face only a Mother Could Love " would do better IMO.
As for the shot - nice. A bit under exposed and not details on the black part, but I like the pose of the bird and the DOF.
over all a very nice take on the challenge.

Gigi's closeup
by ladpupmoe

Comment by jseyerle:
If you could have gotten more of the face and not had the paw and blanket(?) I would have drawn in more.

Gigi's closeup
by ladpupmoe

Comment by Cutter:
poor composition hurts this photo.

Spring
by ladpupmoe

Comment by k4ffy:
maybe if it was sharper, and the background was different.

Spring
by ladpupmoe

Comment by solitarychimera:
I like the idea. I think it would have benefited if you had turned the spring some more so we could see the outside as well. Also the dark patch top right draws the eye away from the focal point. Colours are interesting too.

Spring
by ladpupmoe

Comment by _Io_:
I thought of spirals, then thought that the picky DPC crew would vote them down for not being circles :) Still, I'm not that petty! Only criticisms I have are the shadow along the seam in your foreground, and the clarity of the spring.