Mother and son
by friiskiwi

Comment:
Love the interaction. 8, just-married

The Future is Bright with a Big Sister
by bspurgeon

Comment:
Lovely. Great interaction. Great exposure. :) 8, just-married

Too Person Portrait
by timfythetoo

Comment:
Very nicely done. I really like the diagonal composition and the offbeat crop. My only CC is that the child on the left's eye-whites seem overly white as if they were worked over in PP and I miss the natural shadow there. (I may be wrong, but it's the thing in this photo that keeps stealing my attention.) 8, just-married

Sisters
by train

Comment:
Lovely interaction. The focus seems a touch soft on their faces (looks like it fell on the hair.) Beautiful girls. :)

As Life Passes
by Artyste

Comment:
Glen - Congrats on your first blue. I feel like we're watching Megan grow up here on DPC; she's getting so big. Fabulous shot of her.

Jaala
by BobsterLobster

Comment:
Nicely composed and lit, but somehow something just doesn't pop for me. Perhaps if she'd oiled her skin, she'd have more of a sheen that would make this work better as a fashion/modelling type piece.

Beautiful Place & Beautiful People (or MeiGuo and MeiZu)
by eschelar

Comment:
Very nice crop and composition. Sweet expressions. I would like to see more texture in the skin and less softening.

Lighting Lines
by sigrun_th

Comment:
This shot stands above so many shots of this nature. First, the strong straight diagonals against the round pillars is such a feast of line and form. Then the reflection in the muck simultaneously continues the line and solidity of the pillars while inverting the pattern the blinds created.

That alone is enough to create a great image, but you go one further by capturing the scene in the golden hour, really capturing the essence and beauty of the light as it must have been while viewed live. This is something we all struggle to do: capture the quality of the light and not just it's brightness.

Then we have the clean form and color of the stone pillars contrasted against the mucky gritty puddle on the floor.

You have outdone yourself here. Truly, could this image be any better?
10, and favs.

The big race
by eirasi

Comment:
Bump from 9 to 10.

I really like the movement you've caught here, yet managing to keep the ram's face sharp. The green and yellow palette is just beautiful.

Vibrant
by jenesis

Comment:
I like the way the paint splashes on the wood behind her are so similar to the color of her hair. The saturation is pushed past my normal preference, but I really like it for this image. 9, good luck.