Swallowtail
by noraneko

Comment by Brad:
Just a touch of manual sharpening on the body and it's ready for an Encyclopedia!

"Rooster"
by noraneko

Comment by CNovack:
Coming to visit the originals from the Deja Vu III challenge:

I absolutely love the stunning colors seen on this Master of the Chicken Coop! The colors are bold and vibrant. Your PP did wonders with making the colors pop off the page. I also like how you caught the rooster in an interesting pose with it's head cocked to look behind him. Your photo is also sharp as a tack for we see all the lovely details from sheen on the end of his tail feather to some of the bumpy textures in the coxcomb (crest on his head. The square crop suits the bird well for it keeps the eye strongly focused on the body of the rooster. Well done.

Not Your Daddy's Apple
by noraneko

Comment by Pompouspete:
Great imagination. 8

Not Your Daddy's Apple
by noraneko

Comment by sholling:
The Ipod and the cable destroy the image visually for me. Would have been a visually interesting image with a tight crop around the apple and the USB plug as the stem.

The original concept is of course the image of the apple with a pair of earphones plugged in. The setup you have here is incongruous, an iconic Apple Ipod plugging into an apple??

Not Your Daddy's Apple
by noraneko

Comment by treimee:
I think the photo would have been perfect with just the apple and the i-pod. The orange and what looks to be some type of micro-chip are distracting and don't add anything IMO.

Reach
by noraneko

Comment by SandyP:
How PRETTY!!!!! I thought it was very hard too. I tried all week and ended up with nothing submit-worthy! This turned out perfect!

Reach
by noraneko

Comment by Melethia:
I think your experiments worked out well and you hit on the secret to this challenge, which was judged a bit more as very shallow DOF rather than overall softness. You managed to combine both quite nicely!

Swallowtail
by noraneko

Comment by Node:
Wonderfull photo, I might have tried to keep the whole flower in without cropping it part way through.

Reach
by noraneko

Comment by jaysonmc:
You make this photography stuff seem too easy. Wonderful soft effect and lovely colors. Congrats on another terrific capture and score.

Reach
by noraneko

Comment by bassbone:
Cat - I really thought this was very good -the composition and lines were really solid - gave it a 7. I think you probably got robbed from those that saw the sharp focus flower dead center...