Flying on the pond
by Chusca

Comment:
The horizon's skyline with the bird flock reflecting in the pond is very nice, but, how come you didn't crop this one in the bottom to remove the aparent trash? This would have been better for the "Grabage" challenge.

Reflections in my eyes
by simona

Comment:
IMHO, if you submit an image with such a basic problem as lack of focus, the only constructive critique you can expect is that, and that you already knew when you submitted the photo. I think you should have included the baby's painted hand (right side of image), and not kept the baby right in the middle of the composition as an ordinary snapshot. I assume you used a flash, (although I might be wrong). Even if it's another intense source of ilumination, it is very helpful to use a gauze strip or some translucent white fabric in front of it, in order to soften the strike of light. The girl is totally cute.

45 RPM
by TiN

Comment:
IMHO, meeting the challenge is just a start. I think it should also be atractive, or interesting, or surprising, or informative, or something. Your composition is none of those; no color; not B&W; no determined shape, either figurative or abstract or oniric; and the worst part is the lack of focus, which is always a killer. Even a photo of movement, although not a stop motion image, should be focused; it is the nature of our eyesight. (I am honestly trying to provide useful feedback).

Sunglass
by danmoran

Comment:
IMHO, if you submit a photo with such a clear deficiency as total lack of focus, that will be the only critique you would receive, and that you already knew. So you would be unable to obtain a helpful constructive feedback. Maybe the technical capabilities of your camera cannot provide you with a close up of this nature.

Bug on the petal
by xiaohai

Comment:
IMHO, it gave me a hard time interpreting the reflection theme in this image. As a flower close up photo, although the focus is adequate, the angle is uninteresting, and deviates atention to the backgroud, which itself is unexplainably ocupied by a human figure that is completely out of context, and dead center of the composition.

A whole new World
by maheshparab

Comment:
You have an uninteresting flor and the edge of a common doorway in focus, and your reflection on the can is unfocused. It would be much beter the other way around, I believe...

Peek into my secret place
by MagsCoyote

Comment:
Beautiful image. Top 3 for me. In my personal opinion, I would have cropped a little higher the bottom to cover the edge of the wood planks in the water, giving out more space in the upper area, and showing more greenery. That would raise the angle of the point of view. It would have been very nice also if the face hanging from the bridge was more iluminated. This marvelous spot has a european feel; I wonder where this place is.

City of Bridges
by sohr

Comment:
I totaly enjoyed this image. The reflections on the water and the water's "texture" are masterful. Picture perfect.

Window on Sleeping Suburbia
by DougPaz

Comment:
Wonderful image and technical quality

Down the driveway
by puppet10

Comment:
I believe this image ended up not being an abstract, or an effect, or a scenery. It is not inspiring or aesthetic. The few nice colors are wiped and lost in chaos.