Unfriendly Flora
by magnus

Comment by sher:
ouch! great shot!

Unfriendly Flora
by magnus

Comment by Gallatin:
Comp good, Colors nice

Unfriendly Flora
by magnus

Comment by adine:
You know I love the fact that this isn't a flower - but a sharp toothy incarnation of this flora in April. Gritty, stark, not some silly fluffy tings with petals (I've seen WAY too many of these today!)

Unfriendly Flora
by magnus

Comment by SteveS:
Imgaginative

Cobalt Ripples
by magnus

Comment by wewillexplore:
Greetings fromt the Critique Club
Hi again, magnus! :)

Composition
I love the reflection - I see it as the majority of the shot, with the actual glass less a part of it. It is the reflection that's more interesting, but I do like the cup. I wish I could see it with more, just to see if I liked that any better.

Color
I absolutely LOVE the purple that's inside the blue here. The whole color is beautiful. The colors are what attract me to this photo and why I like it.

Focus
I like the focus on this shot and I see you closed the aperature right up to 8, so I'm not sure what else you could have done to increase the sharpness - overall it's pleasant to look at, so I wouldn't change anything here.

Lighting
It's difficult to tell what the light is and where it's coming from. I assume that the light made that reflection and since that's the most interesting part of the shot to me, nice lighting! :)

Subject matter
This is a neutral subject, somewhat of a 'stock' photo. I like that kind of thing. I think that this shot is a show-off shot, one you should be more than proud of.

Overall
Overall, I'm surprised this shot scored lower than I thought it deserved. I gave it a 7 and I thought it was one of the better color shots in the challenge. Congrats on taking an underappreciated shot.

Cobalt Ripples
by magnus

Comment by wingy:
Whoh.. those are some really cool colors, although I can't really tell what's producing them. Neat shot. 7

Backyard Symmetry
by magnus

Comment by floyd:
Greetings from the Critique Club

No question here about whether this fits the Symmetry challenge. It's clear that it does. Compositionally this looks almost Warhol-esque or perhaps even a fabric print. It's a very brash collection of shapes when photographed up close like that, filling the frame. That boldness could have been used more to your advantage, I think, by playing with the colours more and perhaps making them equally brash. It is, I think, the colours that let this image down a little. You've taken an everyday household object and photographed it in a way that we wouldn't normally see. You've managed to disassociate your image quite strongly from the original scene very successfully and I'd have liked to have seen you sever the link entirely by not attempting to keep the original colours. The bricks have come out a little purple-looking and the light is very flat. That really brings down this otherwise in your face image.

Technically your image is just fine. The focus seems OK if bordering a little on the soft side - I dont think that's a problem. The exposure is OK but the whole scene could have used a lot more light. I've already covered composition and that's your strongest element here.

I think your concept was good - you went out with an idea in mind and you captured it well. I just think you needed to develop that idea a little more to turn it into something that really stands out.

Cobalt Ripples
by magnus

Comment by kiwiness:
Very psycehdelic! Great capture, wonderful colors!

Cobalt Ripples
by magnus

Comment by BigHusker001:
Neat abstract photo. I like the colors...the purples inside the blue.

Cobalt Ripples
by magnus

Comment by SteveS:
Very imaginative. It almost works for me. I just can't quite get my eyes around it.