Ragged
by Tycho

Comment:
Da,m the basic editing restrictions: a simple graduated Nd filter could bring that sky more into line with the rest of the shot, and the equivalent in 'shop is forbidden. This is good work: I'm not wholly sold on your composition - specifically the partial includion of that foreground-most rock image right. But the light is gorgeous, and well caught.

Out of Stone
by e301

Comment:
A couple of answers: no, no polariser: just taken with an awareness of what I could do later in PSP.

The upload date is that of my oringinal submission, taken well before this. This was shot 12th April.

Out of Stone
by e301

Comment:
Thankyou all - I really didn't think this was going to make it into the ribbons, there were so many other contenders I could see. A very pleasant surprise this morning - grey, wet, prospectively boring day ahead, and this brightens it some.

Texas Star Hibiscus
by labuds

Comment:
This is tremendous Aleks - if it hadn't been for that border I'd have been completely convinced this was JJBeguin's work. Wonderfully done.

The Shroud
by jjbeguin

Comment:
The daffoldils (?) beyond the glass really add a strong element here - a resolution for the leading lines composition. I like the sense of Easter about it: an enormously clever and sophisticated shot (in a good way - there's plenty of clever stuff that leaves me cold).

Doom Watch
by Imagineer

Comment:
Wow, John. Top stuff indeed. That background was what disturbed me, I think, looking at it - and I was convinced this had to be a stuffed bird - surely, I thought, in this kind of light, you just couldn't get this detail on this bird without really being some kind of monster-full time wildlife photographer. Really outstanding. And an 8 ...

planet earth
by arngrimur

Comment:
Excellent stillness here; I find the square crop to have very little use for the image though - all it seems to have done is include an enormous slab of black at the bottom of it. What this does, for me, is to dwarf and relegate the interest of the regression in that skyline, swamping it with all that negative space.

Pure
by docpjv

Comment:
Strong sense of fragility, and of detail here - actually, the former is probably a function of the latter. The light is wonderful. The second bloom makes something of a mess of things compositionally I fear: and likewise you've sacrificed some of the light there for the main bloom.

Madona
by dimitrii

Comment:
Nice stuff. The grain addds tremendously to the feel of the image; gives it a very contemporary old look, if you follow me.

The Other Half
by Juniper366

Comment:
You could darken this enormously, i think: in the sense that there are no blown-out highlights it isn't over-exposed of course; but in the sense that all the colours lack vibrancy, and a sense of contrast throughout the image, then it is over-exposed. Cameras meter in an odd way, and it's almost always worth shooting with the exposure compensation set down a stop or two: darker images can always be brought up in processing.

I think this scene is a bit complex to work well as a reflection: certainly at the submission size here. The figures, the dome, the flowers, the house, the greenery ... and the over-lapping of many of those leaves you with an image where there is too much stuff going on for the reflection to stand out.