Plant Trees
by Lydia

Comment by Barroness:
My top pick so much here, the beautiful spring coloration with all the glory of a new season. The round circular presentation has no beginning nor end including everything in the whole. Congratulations

Plant Trees
by Lydia

Comment by lovemelvin:
So unique!! I love this! Congratulations, Lydia! 🫶🏻🥳

Plant Trees
by Lydia

Comment by roz:
good one . !! ..
great for the challenge ..
should do well .. :)

Plant Trees
by Lydia

Comment by Barroness:
My favorite of the challenge, I like how you have focused all the trees with one large tree in the middle. I also love the blue and green coloration and the round connection with the earth.

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by Lydia

Comment by tnun:
that eye!!!

Bistro for One
by Lydia

Comment by kanaj:
Oh I totally disagree, Lydia! That butter knife is doing some real work here. :-)

I really enjoy this shot. Intentional or not, it contains a certain melancholy that lingers with me. Maybe something about the "table for one" aspect of the perspective, coupled with the way the humans in the frame are turned away from the viewer. And the processing is gorgeous. I love that you resisted the temptation to "correct" the tilt.

Time
by Lydia

Comment by kanaj:
Sneakily compelling for me. An artfully understated meditation on liminality.

Time
by Lydia

Comment by Art Roflmao:
Composition: 6
Technical: 6
Creativity: 7
Appeal: 5 - I'm trying to figure out that blue smudge...
Challenge: 5 - I give everyone a 5 in this category for Free Study for obvious reasons
Overall Calculated Average Score: 6

Hope this was helpful.

Note: If you're interested in my voting methodology...

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by Lydia

Comment by lovemelvin:
a masterclass work

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by Lydia

Comment by kanaj:
I don't know if anything this brilliant could have avoided attracting polarizing votes, but in this particular challenge I found this to be sublime. It was my highest vote. Both in the capture and the processing you've managed to make this feel constructed and genuinely photographic in all the right ways.