the past behind them
by saintaugust

Comment:
Love how the shallow depth of field makes this background blend so well. Easy to imagine it as history of your foreground subjects. The partial desat only adds to the impression. I expect this will be highly under-rated as a cursory glance reveals little. I even like the blown highlights of the paraders because of how it mirrors that in the historic background.

The Naturally Sparkling Amarylis
by espy2

Comment:
Lovely, so easy to overdo the saturation on the red ones.

Street Santa
by Joey Lawrence

Comment:
Neat, the partial desat works very well on this great street shot. All that fur and hair texture, and the grungy tones of the city. Terrific.

Sky and Leaves (On Water)
by kdkaboom

Comment:
Interesting textural study! I like the diagonals.

Nature Smiles
by davidus428

Comment:
What a hilarious use of shallow depth of field! And the yellow background completments him nicely.

Just chillin'
by Patrol

Comment:
The purple fringing around the bird's head and back are the only downside to this lovely image.

Desert Tendrils
by crabappl3

Comment:
this is a lovely composition but seems overprocessed...it could be my imagination after looking at a LOT of overprocessed/grungy shots.

FRAGILE
by Rikki

Comment:
Way too much Neat Image to my taste/oversmoothed. The pixelation prevents a higher score.

Flag Art
by woodsey

Comment:
I guess this is homage-time, reasonably well done although I would prefer that the white was WHITE, guess you were avoiding blowing out the highlights.

Beauty vs Blight
by glad2badad

Comment:
Really liked this one. Congrats on your top 20, but I think this should have done better.