Snowball Eater...
by Everyday Renee

Comment by Crafty Sue:
This is a great photography the position of the dog snow and blue make a good combination 9

Snowball Eater...
by Everyday Renee

Comment by Jaguar:
Great photo, but I don't like seeing a dog trying to eat snow like this.

Snowball Eater...
by Everyday Renee

Comment by peecee:
Great capture.

Snowball Eater...
by Everyday Renee

Comment by hughletheren:
Love it - very classy stop motion.

Snowball Eater...
by Everyday Renee

Comment by MrAkamai:
Great subject but I would have cropped the bottom a little closer.

Champagne Ice
by Everyday Renee

Comment by Everyday Renee:

Originally posted by Koriyama: This is a nice photo, reflected in a suitably nice score. There is a serene elegance here, and the theme of simplicity is well-supported. Compositionally, the elements are arranged very well - the right-hand trees, the top left sun reflection, the bottom, underscored. The colour range is a bit limited. The reflection could be a touch brighter and the silhouette darker. Or the trees could have some more colour to balance with the brightness more. Or the overall brightness level could be increased. But, for me, somehow the colour range needs something extra. You could try cropping just to show the top half, portrait. Overall, a nice photo, but nothing outstanding.

I tend to be a realist and thought this was a unique scene...that's what drew me in... It's not spectacular, but interesting.

Champagne Ice
by Everyday Renee

Comment by Koriyama:
This is a nice photo, reflected in a suitably nice score. There is a serene elegance here, and the theme of simplicity is well-supported.

Compositionally, the elements are arranged very well - the right-hand trees, the top left sun reflection, the bottom, underscored.

The colour range is a bit limited. The reflection could be a touch brighter and the silhouette darker. Or the trees could have some more colour to balance with the brightness more. Or the overall brightness level could be increased. But, for me, somehow the colour range needs something extra.

You could try cropping just to show the top half, portrait.

Overall, a nice photo, but nothing outstanding.

Winter Wonderland
by Everyday Renee

Comment by Koriyama:
This is a very nice scene. Very wintery. I can feel that I'm inside, all snuggly and toasty.

Winter Wonderland
by Everyday Renee

Comment by GeneralE:
In Photoshop 5, I first selected the entire image, then used the Edit>Transform>Perspective tool. This gives you handles like the crop or scale tool, but is not contrained to a rectangle. I dragged the bottom handles directly sideways until the two main posts appeared parallel (109.4% of the original width). I then cropped the excess background this steps created. Unfortunately, I then noticed it needed about a 1 degree rotation; I try to always combine the crop and rotate steps by rotating the crop rectangle. Because this created more unwanted background, I just added a thick stroke in a contrasting color (not the one I'd recommend, but one you can see!) instead of cropping further.
(Tick ... tick ... tick ...)
OK, that border looked pretty bad (I'm leaving it on the thumbnail so you can see) so I've selected the border with the magic wand, feathered the selection 8 pixels two times, then filled the resultant selection with white to create (what I hope is) a frosty effect, and then added a couple of pixels of black around the outside to make it show up on a white display page.

I've also been a little sloppy today, and have been re-saving the image in JPEG instead of Photoshop or TIFF format, so I'm sorry if the image quality has gone down a bit.

Champagne Ice
by Everyday Renee

Comment by imagesloyola:
great colours and composition