Wet Sand
by michelaudette

Comment by MaryO:
Like the light and the bits of bright blue sky offering hope of a break in the weather.

Wet Sand
by michelaudette

Comment by ubique:
Very lovely. Recalls Harry Gruyaert's beautiful Rivages

Old times
by michelaudette

Comment by MeMex2:
Very Clever!

Fire Bush at fall
by michelaudette

Comment by FrankRobinson:
Hi! Welcome to your (very amateur!) critique.

My overall impression of this shot is that it should have done better. It is a beautiful concept, very well realised. I think that there are a couple of minor points which may have held it back.

Technically: Actually I don't really have anything to add. I suspect that your prep for the shot (with the white board) saved an awful lot of PP work.

Artistically: The colours are excellent, giving the whole a superb dreamy quality. The composition is quite strong, but I would probably have cropped the top all the way down to the top leaf - I am not sure that the white up there adds a lot. The white vignette also probably put some voters off. I can see that this might have been intended to add to the dream quality, but I am not sure it works. A hard white border might have been better.

PP: This could have been sharper, but I think you were right not to make it so. You would have lost some of that dream quality. What I would recommend is to use the freedom of advanced editing and clean up the edges - there are some odd yellow lines in the vignette which are distracting and a linear shadow bottom right which I would have dodged out - again it is distracting.

In summary, I like this. I didn't vote but would have gone for either a 6. With some of the details cleared up probably a 7. Nice one!

Wet Sand
by michelaudette

Comment by sidpixel:
I like the emphasis on the wide angle foreground but it would have worked better with less processing on the sky and with the horizon straightened, good luck

Wet Sand
by michelaudette

Comment by tanguera:
I understand why you cropped this way, but it seems very severe and squashed to me.

Guardian Angel
by michelaudette

Comment by Greeneyes95:
i like this just cause of the message it gives off

Old times
by michelaudette

Comment by Luci11e:
ha! nice idea for this challenge! :-)

Old times
by michelaudette

Comment by tanguera:
You are SO literal :-)

A museum artifact, a found treasure, a mystery on celluloid. Lovely.

Old times
by michelaudette

Comment by bohemka:
Very clever. Nice take on the challenge.