Cold Winters Night
by Maverick

Comment:
The sky colour in this shot is very good, but I just can't get my head around how WHITE that snow is. My brain is telling me that there should be a slight blue tint there. Was there a street light shining in from the upper right of the shot? Good composition. Too bad that the moon/sun is washing out that branch.

Shades of Morning
by newtune3

Comment:
This is a tad too dark. Too bad you couldn't have waited a bit to get more light. I would have shot this form farther away and kept the tree to the right, but would have included all the branches that were cropped out. You may have been dealing with obstacles to the shot that didn't permit a wider shot.

Up or Down
by JC_Homola

Comment:
Interesting structure shot in front of beautiful sky. I love the angle at which this was shot. I would have cloned out that white speck showing on the right part of the structure. The far part of the structure seems to be slightly out of focus. Good work. Tilting the shot a little bit more to the left might have made things even better.

Set the limit!
by kinks

Comment:
Takes guts to submit stuff like this. Glad you had them for this shot. I once had to "take out" 27 mice in a four month period in an old house I was living in about 10 years ago. I have no mercy for these little guys when they're on my turf.

On the edge of a Gin & Tonic
by jonpink

Comment:
Congrats on your first ribbon Jon. Nice to see that your consistent work has finally paid off. Great simple idea. Keep up the good work.

Success
by Sonifo

Comment:
One of the best of the lot. Very good light and good clean focus throughout. I also love your title text with larger S's and underlining. However, your secondary title is almost properly aligned but is s tad too close to the right - I measured.

Beauty Seen is Never Lost
by indigo997

Comment:
Nice sunset, but that patch of clear sky is just soooo overexposed. Too bad. Taking this shot from a different angle might have solved this.

Imagination
by magnetic9999

Comment:
Too bad the "i" of "is" is overlapping the fur trim of her hood. Love the angle of the capture and lighting is quite good also. DOF is just a teeny bit too shallow. The hair on her right below the chin looks fuzzy and the edge of the hood on her right looks "off" because of it.

Teamwork
by dan_pendleton

Comment:
Very good shot and love the light. You captured this at the perfect time of day. I am impressed.

The central group of seven geese is perfectly shot. I would have cloned out that last goose on the right though. It is either out of focus or has too much motion blur. Cloning it out and possibly using a closer crop would also have produced an interesting image. There is also what seems to be a blue dot, roughly 1.5 inches above the right wingtip of that fuzzy goose on the right. Clone stamp?

I would have also liked to see the border and the text the same colour to give the image more of a "whole" feeling.

Love is the flower...
by sher

Comment:
Awesome crisp focus on the flower in the forefront and good use of DOF. Crop also very good