Continental Divide
by tanguera

Comment by jdannels:
I thought this image was very cool, if I would have voted in this challenge it would have been a 9 or 10 from me. There was a thread attempting to match images to their brown predecessors. Naming your image something other than what the brown ribbon you were paying homage to probably hurt your score. Of course this has nothing to do with how good your image is.

It is only a rut if you personally are not satisfied with your images. If to you, they hold a sense of accomplishment as a successful endeavor, then scores are irrelevant. Often newer DPC members want the big scores and many great comments. Eventually, they become indifferent to what their actual scores are and just want to make something interesting and pleasing to themselves. It seems to me you are already producing interesting images. There is nothing I would change with this image. Often higher scores are given to what people attribute as technically superior. If this image's DoF was extremely deep and you had the hiker and the crevice in focus, your score would have been no doubt been higher as that is seen as technically proficient, but would the image have been more interesting? I think not, it would have lost it's mystery, the viewer would not need to try and search its personal experience and make its own associations, it would simply be a walker. Hope this makes some sense, could just be me ramblings. I think you are on a good track from what I can see. Just make images that you enjoy. :)

White Shoulders
by tanguera

Comment by chromeydome:
PostLuminous Award Nominee!
luminous and lovely, like the tilt

Four
by tanguera

Comment by WickedSound:
Great macro. Like how you chose the red border to compliment the tips of the thorns. 7

Four
by tanguera

Comment by chromeydome:
A wonderful image. I am not anti-border in principle, but I find this border to be distracting. It really draws the eye to the border with that dominating, bright color, and doesn't really accent the small reddish elements in the image itself. A pure black border, or no border, would serve this very nice image much better, in my opinion. 6

Four
by tanguera

Comment by npasel:
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White Shoulders
by tanguera

Comment by tmorninglory96:
I like this but the bright white strip in the top corner takes my eye away from the subject

White Shoulders
by tanguera

Comment by phylsy7:
These colors are much too dark to meet the challenge of light on white.

Four
by tanguera

Comment by Connor:
great shot

Woven
by tanguera

Comment by artvet:
Grossly underrated! Nicely done.

Four
by tanguera

Comment by Jason_Cross:
This would have been a 10 if you could have got a grasshopper to water slide down it.