Windswept
by chalice

Comment:
Haleakala? One of the most amazing places ever :)

Morning Glow
by HikerDude

Comment:
Great shot! We visited Mesa Arch a few years back, when my daughter was around 7. We were lucky enough to have the whole arch to ourselves for about 15 minutes, and then a throng of people showed up. My daughter was taking pictures when someone realized they were standing in the way, and they apologized to her for being in her shot. Without hesitation, she said, "Don't worry... I'll just Photoshop you out!" :)

City of dreams
by mqnaufal

Comment:
I am VERY stingy about giving out 10s, but this one tops the awesome-meter. Very nicely done!

Arabesque
by gyaban

Comment:
I'll just congratulate you on the blue now... by far the best of the bunch :)

"Take My Picture!"
by sfalice

Comment:
If he's standing there posing for a picture, that makes it "not candid" in my book...

Begging again
by jgirl57

Comment:
A shot of a dog never screams "candid" to me...

The Canyon is Grand
by ShutterRev

Comment:
Bright Angel Trail? My brother and I hiked it a couple summers ago (one day to the bottom, a second day spent entirely at the Bright Angel Campground, and the long hike back to the top on day three). Definitely the most challenging, but one of the most rewarding things I've ever done!

embraced
by mitalapo

Comment:
This one might have had more of an impact if we could see at least one of the faces.

The Old Schoolhouse (circa 1869)
by Bear_Music

Comment:
I've made a special point of making longer, in-depth comments on milestone voting images, and this shot happens to mark my 300,000th vote at DPC... so here goes!

My first impression is that I like the toning of the image a lot. It has an HDR feel to it, bringing out detail in the dark areas, particularly where the desks leave shadows. I used to be pretty much against HDR treatments of photos because a lot of them were heavily overdone, but this is a good example of how it can be used to enhance a shot while still retaining photographic integrity. (And again, I'm just assuming this is HDR.)

At first I thought the walls were dirty on the right hand side, but I'm guessing that's simply a result of shadowing from the desks, probably made more obvious by HDR, too.

I love the sharpness of the shot, from front to back.

Minor nitpicks...

There's not really a singular defined subject here, as a place for the eye to come to a rest. The desks kinda act as leading lines, though, drawing me through the shot to the front of the classroom.

I might have liked this a little better had the shot used an even wider view, grabbing just a tad more of the desks in the middle left and right bottom of the shot (or if they weren't in the shot, amputated part way).

And my only other nitpick would be the visible cars outside the window. I'm not sure what the timeframe of this setting would be (I'm assuming this is an old school house frozen in time as a museum of sorts), but I like to imagine it without modern transportation :) I'm trying to count stars on the flags to come up with a timeframe... the one on the right looks like it has 36 stars, which would put this setting in the 1860s...?

Ha... I just noticed the "circa 1869" in the title, so I guess that answers that :)

Anyway... it looks like a cool place to visit, and I like the shot a lot... it's a 7 from me.

True Love
by GeorgesBogaert

Comment:
The composition seems a bit off to me on this one. I would have definitely panned down a bit to include the full dress and the groom's leg. If your goal was to keep the building in the shot, I would have gotten lower to the ground to include everything.