Fall Meadow
by sophiawood

Comment:
Dangerous style, but here it works beautifully thanks to the perfect composition.

Lost At Sea
by IAmEliKatz

Comment:
Personally I would have tried to increase slightly the contrast between water and sky layers. Nevertheless I love the dreamlike simplicity. 8

Solitude
by bhuge

Comment:
Congrats on the very deserved ribbon! I like the composition: rock circle + 2 monoliths, Robert Langdon would love to explain it :)

The Blue hour
by otto22

Comment:
Greetings from the Critique Club :)

First impression: WOW

Technically great, nothing to nitpick about. I like your exposure, which gives a very interesting texture to the water. Beautiful natural colours.

It definitively meets the challenge and even better in an original way: a silhouette against a liquid background instead of air is refreshing.

So why did it not win? I think the answer is in the composition, which is maybe slightly to complex. There are so many things going on: lines in the sky, triangles in the mountains, curves on the beach,... It is a very interesting landscape indeed, but from the point of view of pure design, the elements do not fit perfectly. Maybe a closer framing around the beach tongue? Maybe you kept the left part of the picture because you wanted the highlights for contrast, but maybe another angle would have solved that problem.

Anyway, I was lucky to get such a nice photo to critique, I enjoyed studying it! If you have any questions or comments, feel free.

Cheers, Mike

The Simple Life
by skewsme

Comment:
The combination of classical still life with an impressionistic background is very original and the colors are gorgeous. Congrats on the well deserved blue!!!

Morning Harvest
by timfythetoo

Comment:
Congrats! This is my favorite in this challenge. He's well hidden without being tiny and once you spot him (took me a while), it feels like a big revelation.

Arrived the easy way
by MistyMucky

Comment:
Thank you so much for all the friendly comments! They mean a lot to me.
:D

The Tri Athlete
by BrianR

Comment:
Congratulations on the top 20 and the fantastic photo :)

The Tri Athlete
by BrianR

Comment:
I like your B&W conversion!

Fauve
by StephanieD

Comment:
Composition and technicals are brilliant, giving a very feline quality which reminds me immediately of lions,...
I am sure it would have scored much higher in a free study!