mother's poetry
by bspurgeon

Comment:
The wind-blown hair on the middle child really makes this image and gives a lot of atmosphere. The fuzzy quality is often overdone but it works well here and makes this feel like an earlier memory. I also like that you didn't yield to the temptation to include the entire tree and instead used it for framing.

Cookies
by MinsoPhoto

Comment:
The image is lacking a clearly focused area to look at. There's not a lot of color variation to provide interest. It could have been cropped much closer since there's a lot of unused space on all sides and four or five cookies would have been plenty.

Mango Kebab
by GeneralE

Comment:
I don't know if it's because of the quality of the light coming off the glass on the plate, but it looks like you selected the background separately and did some processing on it that left the edges between your dessert and background looking unreal (that "shopped" look). It looks like the hole for the skewer was created by melting, and there's a blob of chocolate just below where the skewer comes through that ends up being distracting. I don't feel like there's enough texture captured in the mango, and a different combination of viewing and lighting angles might have worked better.

This is mine...go find your own!!
by ksierras

Comment:
The subject is too centered and there's too much room, especially on the right side (since he's facing to our left). The midday sun leaves harsh and uneven shadows.

Another Great Cake by "It's All About The Cake" - Dana Point, CA
by seethroughmylens

Comment:
The bricks have too much detail and aren't blurred enough to serve as a background. I think a better background would have been sea and sky. The cake is colorful and fun but the colors in your photo are relatively muted and the presentation is too plain and formal. The sand castle looks like it's falling over.

Well hello there rainbow sprinkles... have you met my tummy?
by O'Holleran

Comment:
The lighting is uneven and the background is too bright and draws the eye away from the focal point. If only part of the image is brightly lit then it needs to be the focal point. A lot of the foreground sprinkles are out of focus so you probably should have focused on a different spot or used a larger DOF.

O
by Tiberius

Comment:
The right-most cherry really wants to be the focal point but it's too far over to the side and not enough of it is in focus. I would like it better with a little larger DOF so the near edge of the frosting wasn't as blurry.

one for you, the rest for me
by klkitchens

Comment:
The green is overwhelming and white in the box ends up looking greenish itself because of everything around it. The presentation is fairly plain and stolid. In judging this challenge I don't ask "Does this photo make me want to eat this?" I ask "Would I want to hang this on my wall?" This might work as an ad but not as a work of art. There's extra unused space around the image, particularly at the bottom, so it could be cropped tighter.

Chocolate Chiboust with dried apples, honey cooked pears and lemon thyme
by mrbig65

Comment:
Your dessert looks delicious! Good choice of an interesting dessert. On the other hand, in judging this challenge I don't ask "Does this photo make me want to eat this?" I ask "Would I want to hang this on my wall?" In the cropping, your elements feel like they're pinched at the top but there's extra space on the left, right and bottom. The angle is too much from above and too much of the dessert is at the same distance from the camera so the image ends up lacking depth. The color temperate is a little too yellow.

Death by Chocolate
by p-chan

Comment:
I really like your cropping choice and the composition moves the eyes around the image well and there's good depth. There isn't a lot of variation in the color, though. Maybe white frosting would have looked nice and provided more contrast in the image.