Tranquility on the estuary
by P-A-U-L

Comment:
Feels like a whole lot of over smoothing here

Purgatory
by Cuttooth

Comment:
To say I wasn't looking for this one would be to lie thru my teeth.

Ship with Boats
by Lydia

Comment:
Am I the only commentor suggesting that this would have been much better cropped horizontally? Clouds are nice but unneccessary.

Middle Fork Two
by mpeters

Comment:
Lovely image but it sits just a little too low contrast or "random film filter applied" for me. 7 as is but would likely have been top 3 otherwise.

Escaped A Spider Web
by GolferDDS

Comment:
Could be building a nest - that's what they use. Nice grab

uphill commute
by PennyStreet

Comment:
I want to like this more than I do. I find myself wanting to crop down to make the cone more relevant or crop up to get rid of it.

Shrimp w/ Cocktail Sauce
by Lydia

Comment:
Because you asked... I gave you a 6 for the work, but there's a lot here. Venser has covered much of it, particularly around "story" (you might have been able to tie it in with a title if you built it around "pink") but I'll add some.

When you're compositing you need to look at light and just looking at the coat rack you can see that light/shadows fan out from just that image and fade quickly, not like those on the flamingo that has them.

From there you've utterly messed with my OCD when it comes to lines and while the floor is fine your verticals are a bit of a mess for me, and a corner line always wins to a coat rack. You're shooting the room into the corner when perhaps you should have moved right and shot with the image plan parallel to the far wall.

Finally, it's vertical, and while I can see a lot of details here when it's presented to vote in a squashed format you lose details and nuance. I stay away from verticals whenever possible here for that reason.

Food Coma
by JakeKurdsjuk

Comment:

Originally posted by tate: I did sort of wonder if this one was dead ... I used to work with a guy who was quite cruel to squirrels.

Not dead, we love our critters. It just closed its eyes for a moment actually - not really sleeping.

Golden Stairway
by grahamgator

Comment:
Congrats, Mary Ann - this was my Red. Thought I commented that when I voted but apparently not. LOL

Moraine Lake
by Dennisheckman

Comment:
Had a feeling this might be yours. Congrats, Dennis.