Shades of Gray
by The Eskimo

Comment:
This is a pretty nice picture for the bird being faced away from you. It's so common to have them this way and usually it's a case of "too much ass, not enough face", but you capture the birds turned head quite nicely. I like the bokeh as well and think it provides a good balance for the bird. As with the others, it looks like you could sharpen just a bit.

Weathered Wood
by The Eskimo

Comment:
I think the composition is pretty nice here. Good contrasting colors. Nice subject. One common thing I've noticed as I leave these comments on different people is that people tend to not let their subjects breathe with enough negative space. This looks cramped on the right and top and possibly even the bottom.

DSC_9375-Wash-memorial.jpg
by The Eskimo

Comment:
This is nice. The colors are great and the reflection is wonderful. It does seem in general you should learn to sharpen your work a bit. This looks soft. I would also consider cropping the bottom off so the water goes all the way to the bottom of the canvas.

Sea of Green
by The Eskimo

Comment:
I love landscape. This area shows real promise. Technically I might as for some more contrast, but I probably want a foreground subject or at least something to attract the eye. Here because of the monotones and similarities in the trees our eye doesn't land anywhere and stay. It bounces all over the canvas looking for something else.

Property Line
by The Eskimo

Comment:
I'm enjoying looking through people's portfolios. I've often started with a 5.5 score because it generally means promise that wasn't fulfilled. A few things grab me with this shot. First, you have found a nice leading line, but the problem is it doesn't lead to anywhere. If anything, it leads to that clump of bush which is very unexciting for us. I'm glad to see you used a polarizer. You may have wanted to try to saturated or darken the sky a bit more in processing. Sometimes you can set a new layer to multiply and then provide a gradient down the sky. That can look very nice. The gold does contrast nicely with the blue.

ICU
by MegaColor

Comment:
His legs make him look dead.

The Old Bridge
by MacDonald

Comment:
I love the colors in this one and the subject, but again I feel just a tiny bit cramped. Try to loosen up your crop if you can. Sometimes the crop is the way it is for a reason (something ugly being cut out), but you may like the results if you let your landscapes and animals breathe in the image just a bit.

surfing in silver waters
by MacDonald

Comment:
I like this one very much. Great image. THe processing may be a little oversharp(?) or maybe it's just the lighting made things too contrasty. Still we get an awesome sense of the power of the wave offset nicely by the fluid form of the sillhouetted surfer.

Moonlight Serenade
by MacDonald

Comment:
This shot is much better. You leave some negative space for us. I'm trying to decide whether you burned the black areas or whether they are dark in the original. It looks somewhat artificial, probably because the bird is so bright along with the reflection of the circles in the water. Again, I think you need to up your shutter speed just a bit. 1/500 would have been much better as I sense just a tad of either motion blur or camera blur.

Great Blue Heron in flight
by MacDonald

Comment:
Down in the 5.5 range we can find pictures with promise but failed for specific reasons. Blue herons are great subjects and you did great being able to get one in flight, but your shutter speed was too slow and your crop is too tight. It might be nice to provide a little negative space to the left for the bird to fly into. It could also probably use a contrast bump. I just noticed this shot is from 2006 so it's quite possible you have moved way beyond this shot. :)