Purple
by Ram21

Comment:
Now, I quite like this flower photo though I would perhaps have dodged the flower a bit and maybe it would have been better if it were a tad larger in the picture. I'm fond of the background though, especially the red part at the bottom.
However, I don't find this photograph to fit the lines challenge that well, there are perhaps few lines one notices but they are certainly not a major part of the picture.

Bridge in Borgarnes Iceland
by pall

Comment:
The main fault I see with this picture is that it is too grey and dark for my taste. I guess you should have exposed it a bit more but it should still have been possible to enhance it by using curves and perhaps increasing the saturation a bit. In addittion, a lot of detail is currently hidden in the shadow areas of the picture which could be recovered with the shadow/highlight filter in Photoshop.

I'm also of the opinion that this picture would be much better if you tried to crop it slightly from below and make it a panorama crop. I don't find the foreground to be interesting enough to warrant it's place in the picture. I think I would crop it slightly below the stone in the snow to the left.

In addition, try to convert the picture to B&W instead.

Summer breeze
by heida

Comment:
Heiða, best í heimi!

Congratulations, Heiða, on a terrific photo and yet another blue ribbon. :-)

Surreal Vacuming
by arnit

Comment:
I'm wondering whether I'm biased about this photograph as I knew instantly who the author was and he happens to be a terrific photographer as well as a fellow Icelander. ;)

Anyway, I frankly can't understand how this picture could score so low and end up in the 11th place! It's a good photograph, cute model, a bit surreal as well as funny, it has nice colors and composition, and there is no face showing.

The only two reasons I could come up with to justify this picture's low score is that the model's face is cut off the frame instead of it being "faceless" in the strictest sense, and perhaps some people consider vacuuming at this certain place not to be an exactly normal activity (well, for people like Árni and Brynja, I'm sure it is normal to iron and vacuum at strange locations ...).

Why Me?
by Discraft

Comment:
Nice lightning but the overexposed areas, the pants (it seems) and the model's leftmost finger draw quite an attention to the themselves.
I like how you place the model in the frame to the right.

I also think the highlights in the hair should have been toned down a bit, but I guess that's just my personal preference. As they are now, I find the highlights to be somewhat distracting.

Walking The Dog
by vasilkovaya

Comment:
I understand you were trying to include the bird in the photograph but this picture would have been much better if the person walking the dog had been much more to the right of the frame so it would be like she's entering the frame.
The guy in the yellow jacket is also quite a distraction and if you would have managed to have exclude him from the picture (by taking it earlier or waiting for the next person walking a dog) it would be quite an improvement.
In addition I sorta think that high-contrast B&W would suit this picture much better than color.

But I do like the pier and the footsteps in the sand in the foreground ...

Lone Skater
by milo655321

Comment:
It's a bit out of focus.
I'm also pondering whether the large area of ice in the foreground serves any purpose for this picture and whether it might be beneficial to crop the picture slightly below the skater's feet?

The Invisible Man (1933)
by xtabintun

Comment:
Quite good!
There are however few things about it that bother me a bit.
a) The sunglasses sit unnaturally high (on the "face") and tilt strangely upwards.
b) You are too close to the wall, imho, and I don't like the shadow that falls on the wall to the left on the picture.
c) I don't like the wrinkled shirt collar.

And I might add that the tie is a bit too dark and that you should have adjusted the jacket a bit better. ;)
Otherwise, quite good actually.

Surreal Vacuming
by arnit

Comment:
I'm almost absolutely sure who'se photograph this is - I can say that!
Nice action on part of the model and a terrific dress as well.
I like how the frame cuts across the face slightly above the chin.