Baby
by colorcarnival

Comment:
Michelle, from my perspective your fears about the blow out are unfounded as the way you have PP's the shot takes it away from blow out and actually makes a high key feature of it. Very nice capture and I hope you had a good time at the refuge

Skatin' the Architecture
by ShannonLee

Comment:
Wonderfully surreal urban shot. Fantastic counterpoint between the silhouette of the skateboarder and the detail of the bridge and I love the capture of both the diagonal and straight leading lines.

Very nice (as ever) B&W conversion

Shipwrecked
by KarenNfld

Comment:
Great shot that depicts both the majesty of a large ship and the sadness of decay (bizarrely I can see a sad 'face' in the vessel. I love the composition because you get a real sense of the ship looming above you without it being overpowering

Beautiful use of colour in terms of the splash of muted red in the frame. How anyone gave this a 4,3 or 2 is beyond me

survival of the quickest
by roz

Comment:
Well given how well you did in the Yellow Challenge it looks like you made the right call. Another outstanding macro and congratulations on the top ten placement.

Stunning sharpness

watching
by Retroesque

Comment:
Ha well it made me smile to read that this was not a set up (to be honest during the voting I had thought it might be and was a bit confused as to what the person taking it was trying to say)

I love the dual reflections in the TV screen and window and the complimentarity of the house colour and the chair.

Vert surreal shot which just has me dying to know more about it

Water Dancer
by Alicia

Comment:
MMM I really like the pelican shots that you have been taking with your new camera. Love the fact that you have captured such a precise moment of action with the birds feet just leaving the ground. The high key finish works well although perhaps I would have liked it even more if I could have seen some of the bird's features. Lovely composition on this shot. Very beautiful

Safe and Secure
by Charlene

Comment:
I love this image, the softness and the noise really give the feeling of both the blurred vision of a child and of a time long past.

The composition is fantastic and I cannot think of a better image. Straight to favourites

Awwww Shucks
by WalesP

Comment:
The title of this image had made me smile during voting as it seemed to capture the 'expression' on the swam perfectly. Beautiful composition (talk about a cool 's-curve'), lovely detail and thewater has a fantastic soft quality to it. Great capture of the underbill too whilst still getting the splash of colour from the top of the bill

I love swans and this is a super shot of one

Flying in Formation
by bassbone

Comment:
I see some experimentation went on here!!! (for me it kinda worked - I gave it a 6). I had loved the composition and the detail of the lead bird, but (IMO) it had a little too much contrast which when combined with the high key meant that it almost had a collage like appearance (some of e301's stuff has that ethereal 'appearing from the light' quality)

One that stood out from the crowd in terms of the way that the challenge had been interpreted and all the better for that

I Walk Because I Cannot Fly
by colorcarnival

Comment:
This was a really nice shot for the challenge simply because it was so different to the vast majority of images.

I thought the composition was fantastic, espially the way you captured the melting ice were the goose had walked. Really strong black and whire conversion as well. Mind you just looking at that wing made me wince