Kenneth Patton: The day I see a leaf is a marvel of a day.
by dwterry

Comment:
While I like the image, the colors and the lighting I do not believe it fits the challenge as it has nothing to do with grains of something as far as I can see. I applaud you for staying away from the typical salt/sugar image but I think you went a little too far away.

Sugar Mountain
by aled

Comment:
nice up close and personal, I think I just got a cavity from looking at it. could be a little sharper but very nice detail. Maybe some unsharp mask would fix it.

Hot Salt
by jockselwyn

Comment:
I like the idea of this shot, the salt color and you did very good capturing the texture of the salt grains but I'm not to keen on the darkness of the shot. good luck

Making Dust
by eaglebeck

Comment:
good lighting and I like the panoramic feel to it. Good idea and good luck

saltfalls
by sacredspirit

Comment:
I imagine you tried to use a long exposure to try for a soft velvet touch to the salt like they do in waterfalls. You came extremly close but your darkness hurts the image. A curves adjustment may be able to save this image. Good luck in the challenge and it is really a good idea for the shot.

Stalk
by BobsterLobster

Comment:
I can't believe 9th place?!?!?!?! I gave it a 9 and was totally expecting a ribbon for this one. At least you got in the top 10. Great shot with wonderful colors and lighting. Congrats

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by ButterflySis

Comment:
This is great image. Much better than what I thought was a perfect one when I saw the original. Good job.

Adam Is Back !
by Mona

Comment:
since you referenced Adam I would think a human skull would be better and a little less on the un-apealing side. It has an apple so 5 and good light and detail so 6.

Apple
by KarANN

Comment:
I'm sure everyone has commented on the size of your image. but not sure if anyone has helped you avoid this. If you have had to make it this small to fint under the mb size limitation try this. Resize your image to 640x? usually 480, then when you go to save it (depending on your software) check your compression ratio, the more compression the smaller file size BUT the lower the quality also. In Adobe photoshop you can see the file size as you change compression levels so you know which to use. Some programs will have a save for web function or an optimizer. Those should help quite a bit. Good luck.

Apples To Oranges
by mrsmaxsmart

Comment:
Good image. Apple does seem a little soft of the detail but not disturbing. Great idea...many similar posted but yours is on top of those