African Olive Pigeon (PAW 11/52)
by HarveyG

Comment:
Very nice capture Harvey. Could be used as an ID type photograph.
I think the de-noise worked well.
Personally I would like to see it a bit crisper, have you tried the "Sharpen I" in Topaz?
Also the black in the tail and left wing is very dark (no detail). I am sure you shot RAW? can't you lift the shadows a bit?
Sorry, I probably sound overly critical. I hear a lot of judges at the local club comment on bird photographs and have become very "alert" (not that I shoot birds myself ... always easier to comment than do yourself, I know).

If you ever feel the need to shoot some more of these come and visit. We have several resident ones here on the property.

Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of Earth
by vawendy

Comment:
This is amazing and to think it is Minimal editing! You really do know your stuff :-)
Congratulations on the ribbon, sorry it dipped below 7 in the end.

Snowy
by Tiberius

Comment:
Stunning! - Cat and image :-).
Congratulations on the blue

danse macabre.2_0248
by mariuca

Comment:
You did a fabulous job on the cloning. Got to love "photoshop" :-).
Just one minor detail, if I may. The very white leaf is the only one that stands out quite so obvious. Hence it is fairly easy to pick up a "pattern" in the BG, even if you did not know that you have edited it. I would tone down that leaf considerably. You seem to have darkened the other leaves around it, but to my eye its the white one that gives you away.

Pied Kingfisher (PAW 9/52)
by HarveyG

Comment:
Very nice Harvey. The eye and face is spot on.
I like the BG a lot. Just that little bit of variation in colour really does it for me. And looking at detail, the small lichen on the branch is a nice touch too :-).

You should be really pleased with this one.

wash over the rocks
by Abra

Comment:
This is great. My hand is twitching to touch the water (its probably freezing cold :-))
The tufts of "algae" almost look like trees and the whole thing could be a tsunami wave crashing onto land.

... looked at it some more, really, really like this

reeds
by Abra

Comment:
I like this a lot. Love the colours and the movement. But I also see a spider ... and I don't "do" spiders :-)

Santa Cruz Island
by Germaine

Comment:
Have you tried making either the sky or the water a little lighter to get a 3-tone effect? I understand you may have wanted to show the similarity between sky and water on purpose, for me its just a lot of very similar grey. But I realise this is just me personally.

Well Red...
by thrumyiis

Comment:
This does look very natural and the glass is lovely. Just curious, did you turn the bottle 1/2 way on purpose? If so, why?

A few changes and you may have something for the wabi sabi challenge :-)

Week 9 - Textures
by BeckyT

Comment:
...and there thought it was a carpet! I like the colours and you got a really nice pattern