Violinist
by marbo

Comment:
Beautiful soft focus. Great composition.

Reflections in a Car Window
by gerdagrice

Comment:
Creative and interesting.

No Turning Back
by EyesOnly

Comment:
Wow, gorgeous. Creative and great color and detail.

Autumnal Hues
by geewhy

Comment:
Gorgeous! Fabulous colors! I love the 'glow' feeling of the image. The best so far.

The Gorge at Watkins Glen
by lwkimages

Comment:
Nice. Good use of slow shutter speed to smooth the water out.

Leaves of Change
by Zap228

Comment:
Very sharp, nice image.

beauty of halloween
by docpjv

Comment:
A good picture, but I don't see the association with Halloween...? Her left cheek is a but overexposed, perhaps.

Purple Mountains Majesty
by Loki

Comment:
Good colors and sharpness in the sky. The haze in the distance is pretty cool too.

Brass
by cris

Comment:
Nice composition. Only thing I don't like is that it looks a little oversharpened and noisy.

10 Seconds to Go - Home Time
by saintnicholas_25

Comment:
Oh, man! This is the most underrated image in the challenge!! 4.686?! That's an outrage. The beautiful subtle shading and smooth, brilliant colors are fantastic.

I can see only two (bogus, IMO) reasons mentioned in the comments this could deserve to finish less than 6.0 (I gave it a 9, I only very rarely give out 10s):
1) it's less than the maximum allowable size
2) the image doesn't SCREAM 'school' to some people apparently

I have to say that it's the best looking 17 KB image I've seen here. :) That said, you may have done a lot better with a image 640px wide, and use all the 150 KB you are allowed. I thought this was fine at this size, but obviously some people got hung up on this point.