Dangerous Liaisons
by PhotoDave

Comment by posthumous:
Yes, that does look like Glenn Close!!

Dangerous Liaisons
by PhotoDave

Comment by bvy:
The saturation is a little over the top...

Dangerous Liaisons
by PhotoDave

Comment by Ja-9:
I love the color on this beast...how big is he really. Is that lizard snot? great shot.

A midsummer night's dream
by PhotoDave

Comment by Ja-9:
oh, my this is amazing!!! WOW

Dangerous Liaisons
by PhotoDave

Comment by hotpasta:
not sure what that is in the bg but its distracting...

Forgotten by Time
by PhotoDave

Comment by Gatorguy:
Greetings from the Critique Club...

Congrats on a good example of a long exposure shot. Very sharp, very well exposed and the colors are great.

I think what hurts the image IMO is the composition, even though many commenters spoke of how much they liked it. I think the busy left side distracts from a relatively small waterfall, which by your comments, is the subject of the image. I would suggest you play around with different crops. I moved the window around on my screen and found the waterfall to be much more the subject of interest when I cropped vertically and gotten rid of all the stuff on the left right up to where the top tree crosses over, and then a bit off the right, may an inch. That would have focused the attention on the waterfall as well as eliminated all the distracting stuff on the left while keeping the one tree that creates such a great leading line.

If I had voted in this challenge, I would have given this a 6 as is and an 8 with a different crop.

Hope this is somewhat helpful for another point of view.

Forgotten by Time
by PhotoDave

Comment by MaryO:
Love the composition.

Forgotten by Time
by PhotoDave

Comment by KarenNfld:
Nice and interesting composition, I like it.

Delicate as a rose
by PhotoDave

Comment by Bugzeye:
i reckon the 9 and 10 come from people who voted 1 and 2 on one of the top ten entries. It is their way of keeping their average balanced so no one can suggest they troll vote.

Delicate as a rose
by PhotoDave

Comment by vikas:

Originally posted by citymars: . Is your mom voting?

lol