High Plains
by Dennisheckman

Comment:
Good detail and sharpness throughout the frame, nice composition and good tones. Almost Ansel-Adams-esque. I think I know whose this might be.

Reynisdrangar
by HalldorIngi

Comment:
I'm not really a fan of seeing what's basically the same image three times in different contests in the same week, but I can understand why you'd enter this in the free study alongside what I presume to be otto22's shot. You have some slight light sharpening halos around the crags, but you've managed to avoid his dark dodging and burning halos by going for a simpler edit. The horizon is ever so slightly away from level, which could be fixed with a small rotation in postprocessing.

The Castle in the Water
by Alex_Petrini

Comment:
A little more sharpness on the rocks in the foreground would have improved this image; you also have a subtle red-blue halo on the cliff on the upper right, which looks like perhaps this is the result of an imperfectly aligned HDR stitch? If not then it may be some sort of sharpening artefact from a tool I'm not familiar with.

Last sunlight of the day
by otto22

Comment:
Just the same things to say about this as your other recent image of the same location - you have the same dark halos around the crags which really distract from an otherwise strong composition and good colours. There's also a smudge of contrast loss from where it looks like some flare has been cleaned up a bit on the left side, opposite the sun.

I know you didn't mark my last comment pointing out the same flaws in your other image as helpful, so I'm going to assume you're not especially interested in improving your work - I'm simply leaving this comment for anyone who may come across this image later and wish to learn something from it.

stepping stones
by flaherma

Comment:
Excessive noise reduction / smoothing on the water and sky, and a few sharpening halos around the dark tree on the right.

Winged bullets
by lei_73

Comment:
Nice concept; I find the background just a little more busy than ideal, but it's overall a strong image.

The long way home never disappoints
by wildiris

Comment:
Great colours and detail, not oversharpened, good image.

skyline
by tvsometime

Comment:
The sharpening halos around the edges of the buildings, and the skyline sinking off the right edge of the frame asymmetrically to how it rises above the left, both mar an otherwise very strong composition.

Intricate
by Judi

Comment:
Nice colours, and concept. I would have perhaps cloned out the one bent fibre in the lower right third, as it catches the eye and takes attention away from the rest of the smoother lines in the image.

The round thing has to go into the square thing
by primabarbara

Comment:
Strong composition and concept - a really nice exploration of bokeh and lens distortion. You have some patches of the background that show some noise uncharacteristic with the rest of the image, where it looks like you've either selectively sharpened parts of the drops near them and carelessly bled over into the background - or there were just some smudges on the glass pane you had the drops positioned on. It's visible especially around the drop on the lower left third, and the one near the middle on the bottom, which distract somewhat from the strength of the image - something that could be improved a lot just by cleaning that up in postprocessing. Still, one of my favourites in this challenge.