The Old Bridge
by MacDonald

Comment by DrAchoo:
I love the colors in this one and the subject, but again I feel just a tiny bit cramped. Try to loosen up your crop if you can. Sometimes the crop is the way it is for a reason (something ugly being cut out), but you may like the results if you let your landscapes and animals breathe in the image just a bit.

surfing in silver waters
by MacDonald

Comment by DrAchoo:
I like this one very much. Great image. THe processing may be a little oversharp(?) or maybe it's just the lighting made things too contrasty. Still we get an awesome sense of the power of the wave offset nicely by the fluid form of the sillhouetted surfer.

Moonlight Serenade
by MacDonald

Comment by DrAchoo:
This shot is much better. You leave some negative space for us. I'm trying to decide whether you burned the black areas or whether they are dark in the original. It looks somewhat artificial, probably because the bird is so bright along with the reflection of the circles in the water. Again, I think you need to up your shutter speed just a bit. 1/500 would have been much better as I sense just a tad of either motion blur or camera blur.

Great Blue Heron in flight
by MacDonald

Comment by DrAchoo:
Down in the 5.5 range we can find pictures with promise but failed for specific reasons. Blue herons are great subjects and you did great being able to get one in flight, but your shutter speed was too slow and your crop is too tight. It might be nice to provide a little negative space to the left for the bird to fly into. It could also probably use a contrast bump. I just noticed this shot is from 2006 so it's quite possible you have moved way beyond this shot. :)

Lighthouse in a Storm
by MacDonald

Comment by DrAchoo:
An iconic image. It's pretty nice the way it is, but I have two possible suggestions. The first is to crop vertically. It may heighten the feeling of the wave and go with the flow of the lighthouse. The second is shutter speed. If you could have (and perhaps you were limited by you gear and the light), I would have tried to freeze the wave as much as possible. I almost always like motion blurred water and I usually shoot for that, but in this case I think capturing the detail of the wave would enhance the image. I'll offer a pic of mine as an example:

Somewhere Under the Rainbow
by MacDonald

Comment by JustCaree:
there is some weird haloing going on...

She wears seashells by the seashore
by MacDonald

Comment by Sheryll:
I certainly thought it would be higher in the scale (lol).... but I do see the points made and maybe that blue green might have been a better color. Cnovak makes some good points. It's still my favorite of the mermaids though.

She wears seashells by the seashore
by MacDonald

Comment by grahamgator:
Nice job. The skin tones look a little off; however doesn't matter.

She wears seashells by the seashore
by MacDonald

Comment by inspiredyouth:
not a big fan of her expression but otherwise nice

Somewhere Under the Rainbow
by MacDonald

Comment by rlewis:
Oh for another 1/8 inch of DOF to catch his head; I like the light beam