Embedded
by gotrond

Comment by Zita:
Interesting find. Perhaps a bit too centered for the crop. I think Advanced Rules would allow for you to clone out the black specs. Not sure that I see much of an Orton Effect applied - especially on the pine cone itself, still I like the marked textural change from the prickly pine cone to the cottony snow. Five.

Night Blur
by gotrond

Comment by posthumous:
exciting focus


I'm hanging this in my fantasy art gallery

Night Blur
by gotrond

Comment by Dennisheckman:
The brightness of the sun really doesn't bother me with this. The blades of grass seem to balance everything well.

Night Blur
by gotrond

Comment by bmartuch:
The foreground is interesting.

4 No 2
by gotrond

Comment by Pangurban:
I like the different take on the subject and the crispness of the pencils. There's something about the lower part of the picture I'm not so fond of....it's drawing my eye from the pencils. I think it might be the 'weight' of the reflections of the base that's doing it. Still like the picture though!

Tangled
by gotrond

Comment by ArnaMarie:
I like the idea. I think I would prefer less exposure on some of the top parts and removing the bits laying around rubber/plastic thingy (I don't know what I'm looking at) :)

Birds in the Trees
by gotrond

Comment by MadMan2k:
Literally. Nicely done bird-in-nature shot, maybe a little less contrast to reveal more detail in the bird would have been nice but from the grain I'm guessing it was a pretty high ISO shot - always takes a toll on dynamic range.

Tangled
by gotrond

Comment by MadMan2k:
I think this could have been improved with a cleaner surface to set the rubber bands on. I would also have used a smaller aperture for a bit more depth of field, to include the closest part of the first bundle. This looks like a controlled environment, so there's no reason not to have the camera on a tripod of some sort and use the lowest light-gathering settings and control the light level.

4 No 2
by gotrond

Comment by MadMan2k:
I feel like this could have been improved by cropping out some of the out-of-focus foreground, also I don't get the black-and-white when pencils usually have iconic colors. Selective coloring to remove the color from everything but the pencils might have been worth the effort.

Tangled
by gotrond

Comment by jgirl57:
almost looks like rubber bands of some sort..
Nice and sharp too, great abstract one of my favs