Old man
by heida

Comment:
Outstanding Heiða, almost everything is great in this work, the only thing I would like to see differently are the man's lips, I don't like them purple. Nice texture, it delivers roughness to the man's character.
The man reminds me a little bit of Paul Newman in this image.

The Harvest
by DJLuba

Comment:
Great colors, but a composition like this doesn't work very often. What I mean is the middle line between the sky and the earth. In this case I would suggest to let the sky be 2/3 of the photo and then have less of the uninteresting foreground in the frame, you should have pointed the camera a little bit more upwards. I'm not saying it's a bad photo, just pointing out what would improve it imho.

Blazing Pampas
by strangeghost

Comment:
Very nice, it would have improved if you would have cloned out the flare, at least the yellow dot that I find a bit distracting. Outherwise I like this photo very much.

Daybreak
by Brad

Comment:
Outstanding photo, I think you will score some points for the border, but also you will loose them again because of the border. I would have liked to see it just with a typical border without the two lines in the middle that makes three pictures out of one. It would have worked better as a whole imo. I think this will not be disqualified, but some people will propably request a DQ for it, I'm not one of them. Good luck with this brave attempt that doesn't work for me.

Purple Mountains Majesty
by Loki

Comment:
Good photo, but I think it would have worked better as a duotone image.

Walk this way
by siggi

Comment:
Congrats on the 4th Siggi!

The Birds
by Amason

Comment:

Originally posted by _wu_: I like the pic, but the first second I saw it I thought something is wrong with it. Another second I realised it was made of plenty small ones. Then you comment reveiled the truth. I like it really, only it look VERY fake. And that's for two reasons (sorry if that was your initial intention): 1. The birds do not overlay, which would be very fortunate to capture, 2. Non of the birds touches the border. Still, very impressive in terms of time spent and work envolved. Wu

This is already in the 'Photographer's Comment':

I placed the birds without them "touching" each other and without them "touching" the outline of the frame. I didn't want people to question it if this is a fake, it was supposed to be obvious.

I wasn't trying to make a real scene, If I would have done that, I think this could have looked just like one another picture taken up to the skies of Arctic Terns and wouldn't be half as interesting. It took me a lot of time to decide the positions of the birds to make an interesting 'flood' through the image and something that would not distract the eye. I had this enlarged to 50" wide for the exhibition and in that size it has much more impact than a smaller size or some screen size.

Many thanks for your comment wu.

Dream Works
by Falc

Comment:
congratulations on a well deserved ribbon! One of my favourites in the challenge.

Cruzin'
by bruski

Comment:
Congrats on your ribbon and your pb, well done!

Wonders of the North
by Amason

Comment:
Where's that piece of paper... oh, here it is... uuuhummm...

"Dear fellow DPC̢۪ers

I want to thank my country, Iceland, to be placed on the top of the world, the northern winter for the aurora, my family for tolerating my addiction to this hobby..." bla bla blahhh

hahaha, what can I say, WOW! I'm speechless... MANY THANKS!