Lost Echoes
by Yo_Spiff

Comment:
Excellent tones and composition, and good use of sepia toning.

remains
by mrbig65

Comment:
Nice bold tones and composition for such a simple abstract.

I'll be back.
by Waitingsilence

Comment:
Perhaps a candidate for gothsuptrees.net ;) Good tones and startling sharpness. If I were shooting, I would perhaps have opened the aperture a little more to sacrifice a little of that overall sharpness on their clothes in exchange for better bokeh in the background. I would also have cropped it a little differently, as the central subject ends up a little uncomfortably juxtaposed with the negative space filling the right thirds and the tree filling the left thirds.

Dawn in Dubai
by mqnaufal

Comment:
Excellent colours. Only minor complaint is that you seem to have a tiny bit of distortion bowing the horizon line down in the middle (or up at the sides, depending how you look at it) which you could correct in postprocessing.

Alcázar of Seville
by LevT

Comment:
Strong composition, and excellent work keeping a wide symmetrical composition so perfectly centered and balanced with no distractions. One of my favourite shots in this contest.

The Fallen
by Bear_Music

Comment:
Striking colours and composition, but I'm not a big fan of the overdone tonemap, especially where the tree branches in the top left begin to bleed dark halos into the surrounding sky.

Well Hello, My Little Chickadee
by JakeKurdsjuk

Comment:
Strong image, striking composition. Unfortunately you have some very noticeable halos around the entire bird, especially some dark halos around the lower bright feathers on the nearer wing against the background, and a dark brown halo around its head - perhaps from manual burning of shadows taking too much of the midtones with it? There are also some severe artefacts and grain around the short feathers of its flanks, again perhaps from excessive dodging and burning followed by aggressive sharpening. On close inspection the boekh of the background is also full of stepped artefacts in places, especially near the middle of the frame. Sharpening different parts of the image selectively to different extents might have helped to reduce that.

inferred hope
by tate

Comment:
Good colours and composition, I like this one.

still
by UrfaK

Comment:
You have what seems like a little bit of camera shake (or perhaps subject motion) in the entire image which loses you a bit of definition; there's also some noticeable grain, but kudos for not trying to overcompensate with excessive sharpening. I would perhaps have used a tighter crop to put the subject nearer one of the thirds.

Waves
by posthumous

Comment:
Very strong composition and good balance of tones, one of my favourites in this contest.