Twisted heart
by EgillP

Comment:
This is two pieces of electric wire that I stripped the insulation off and twisted together with a powerdrill, then bent into shape. The backdrop is a piece of bookcloth. Lighting is by a small reading lamp on the right side and some white cardboard on the left.

FAMILY ACCIPITRIDAE
by soon

Comment:
Would have gotten 10 from me if not for imperfections in background manipulation on the right of birds neck. 9

Fall clock tower
by NathanWert

Comment:
Beautiful autumn scene. Lacks texture in highlights.

Mammantus Cloud - 60,000 feet high
by rkligman

Comment:
Think it would improve the picture to lighten the foreground just a bit.

Northern Exposure
by outland

Comment:
A little lacking in shadow detail. You should try "shadow/highlight". 5

Cool !
by EgillP

Comment:
Thanks for your commrnts and critique. One thing I feel I have to correct: The edge in the background is not the horizon, but the sloping glacier that feeds the lagoon with ice and if I were to tilt the image so this line were level, the picture would surely look strange.

I miss the rains down in Africa
by peter

Comment:
This would look fine as a poster.

Mr. "H"
by linda12201

Comment:
Not very abstract, but a good macro.

Shades of grey.
by EgillP

Comment:
Thanks for all the nice comments on my first free study. The light that day was very grey with dust blowing from the nearby glacierbed causing this mist. I found it suited the picture better to reduce the colour still than to pop it up.So after levels and cropping, I faded saturation 50% in h/s, added some tone in coloe balance and tried to find texture in both sky and mountainside with curves and in s/h.

DistantColours
by EgillP

Comment:
This is really a sunset. Processing was minimal: I compessed tones in levels (which enriched the reds in th process),straightened horizon and cropped. Then resize and sharpen and that's it.