The water finds its way
by otto22

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Now that is one twisty, winding, and wobbly river! Love the perspective and details of this wide expanse! The landscape orientation gives the viewer the gorgeous wide view of the land - beautiful mountains and low hanging clouds in the backdrop included. The drawback is that the full impact of the twisting river gets lost in the landscape. The serpentine river is the star subject of this composition. It is a shame to lose the widescreen but to give the river full attention the composition as is now needs to be cropped. My suggestion is to have the start of the river at the bottom of the frame be in the lower left corner such that seems to be flowing out from that corner. To tighten the frame about 10% off the right side. The vertical crop would still include the middle mountain and the cloud covered mountains in the backrop but now the twisty river acts as a leading line that draws the eye, allows us to travel the wibbly wobbly path to discover the mountains off in the distance.

Lucky Bamboo
by Pangurban

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I really like how the twisting bamboo sprouts from the bottom left corner to stretch diagonally across the frame. My only critique is that the composition could be even stronger if the bamboo was evenly lit all across its surface. Another light positioned behind and below it would illuminate the back portions that fall a bit into shadow.

antS
by Lydia

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The letter S is drawn in honey showing off sweet serpentine curves that these ants cannot resist. Lighting and details in this macro shot are fantastic!

Hiss!
by CY_Pang

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Great shot of this snake - love how you caught the tongue flicking out! There is wonderful details in the textures/scale seen on the head. My only suggestion on how to improve on the photo is lighting - especially the black portion on the head and along the side of the body near the head on the left is way too dark. Details are lost in shadow. Open the aperture to let more light in or in processing you can use New Ajustment Layer - Fill Light/Clarity to shine light in those shadow areas to bring back details.

Sss ...
by Dr.Confuser

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The square crop keeps the focus tightly on the coiled ring resting on the keyboard. I really like how you cleverly composed the bottom curve of the ring to nestle the letter S within it's curve!

Dance
by lei_73

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The twisting curving moves of this dancer is impressive! It is a wonderful shot it just suffers from not being well lit enough for the viewer to fully appreciate all the details. The front of this dancer is a bit too underexposed in that it falls and blends into shadow in spots - portions of her face, legs and hair. Now the light behind her does 'outline' her shape with the arms, upper body and the curve of neck to chin. Depending on what look you were going for another light behind her hair could have outlined the bottom half of the dancer's body better. Then there would be the 'hair light' outline all along the shape of the dancer. And/or you could add another difused light to the front to fill in and illuminate her more.

Twist
by MarkB

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I like the coils of the orange peel and the twisting shadows that follow it. It is a good composition it just needs a little improvement to launch it into the excellent category. The first thing is that it is overexposed/blown out in the highlights and you lose a lot of great and wonderful detail in the inner portion of the peal. Next the texture of the paper acting as a background shows up in patches and is blown out in other areas where it is overexposed. The composition is a minimalist piece where the main subject is the twisting orange peel and its shadow. Keep it minimal with nothing else to distract from the main subject. Nothing wrong with going with a solid white backdrop to make you main subject pop visually. Lastly, composing your subject so that the eye has clearly designated lines to follow will improve the visual appeal of the image. By that I mean crop so that the left end of the peal is seated in the bottom left corner. The shadow of the curve of peal at the top should be cradled in the top right corner. This way your main subject then acts as a diagonal line across your composition.

Staircase
by nikkic

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Wonderful curves that spiral down to the bottom. Love the yellow stripes of the steps that add dimension and visual interest to this scene! Those bold red doors that open out are vibrant, add an additional splash of color and draw the eye in. My one critique rests in the composition of elements in this photograph. The spiral begins at the bottom of the frame and that is where the eye should fall naturally so that it can follow the spiral path down. But here, for me at least, my first view begins at the top and was immediately drawn to the vibrant red doors first. If you flip the photo so that the spiral staircase begins at the top of the frame then it naturally leads the eye down the spiral path towards those red doors.

Money Trail
by rodfulk

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Awesome creativity with this composition! I love the arrangement of coins into two entwined snakes. The layered coins mimic the texture of snake scales. Kudos to you on the time and patience spent on creating these coin snakes! That said I do have a few critiques/suggestion on how to make the photograph even better. Processing or lighting or both seems to have brought out a 'glow' around the edges of the snakes. If it is a processing artifact my only suggestion is to scale back on it to see which step is creating those edges. Second is that the border around the frame really does not compliment the photo. I believe it would work best visually without any distracting border for your main subject is what captures the eye's attention to stay and look. Lastly is a suggestion. I don't know if it would work or not given that the surface may be very hard to work in. Grass(cut or long). These two snakes could be encircling each other in grass so that there would be a subtle nod and fun poke at the idiom: snake in the grass.

Glowing Moss
by orvaratli

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The serpentine flow of the stream is outlined by a glowing green moss that turns this view of the scenery into something magical and otherworldly. My first thought looking at this was Midorimono/Mushi/River of Light from the show Mushi-shi. Mushi/Midorimono seemingly magical creatures that are described as life in it's purest form. The River of Light is a stream of glowing embryonic mushi. That glowing moss in this picture is beautiful! And you were lucky to be there to experience this scenery in all it's beauty. Wonderful work! On side note, weather is out of one's control, but a shame the sky is overcast for now I wonder what this glowing path would look like paired with a night sky above.