In the Path of Havoc
by Cutter

Comment:
Lovely work. To be hugely picky (but then the standard's so high in this challenge) - the top of the clouds looks bizarre, like you've taken too much of the punch of light out of them to get that definition, and that removes some impact from the darkness of beneath the storm. The boat gets too lost in the surf-line, also - i think ti would help for it to be a little fuller in frame, certainly at the available resolution here, which restricts detail so much. I think i'd have tried to get closer and lower, to get more boat and still the tops of the clouds. As I said, hugely picky though, those points.

Evening Flight
by ovenbird

Comment:
Should be a contender, I would think. Obviously perfect. The only thing I could imagine preventing this doing ribbon, would be that it is just a bird shot: it perhaps lacks mood, if you understand me. But as a bird shot, it's perfect.

Bad smells on the beach...
by RiderGal

Comment:
Fun image. I think I would have cropped in as closely on the left, to balance the edge of frame on the right (so lose a bit of the elbow, basically) to make it look more deliberate and even. Keeping the sand is understandable, but you've got all the information about 'beach' in those reflections in the shades.

Peacock Mating Ritual - Unedited & Uncensored
by ccraft

Comment:
Love the sense of surveillance photography here - those foreground leaves. the fframing is difficult - the obvious suggestion is to get the bird more strongly in frame, but if you cut off the more in-focus of the yellow grass elements image right, those foregound out-of-forus bits become simply a distraction: this way they have a point of origin, which makes them understandable and thus not a distraction (for all i can imagine the other comments). I wonder if you've got slightly too much blue on the thing's head? Has a slight look of colour clipping, confusing the sense of texture there for me.

Companion In A Shadow
by GolferDDS

Comment:
Nice work. Personally, I think i'd have tried to get a touch more detail into the real figure - drifts a little close to the silhouette end of things around his upper body - to increase the effect of the contrast between him and his shadow. A nice study.

The SALOON - 1880
by Gringo

Comment:
This so clearly has the look of a hyper-active dodge tool that it's bound to be just real. It has a really odd sensation of being tilted to the right a touch, although it's an optical illusion, checking with the edges of a window - but it's one that won't go away, for me, and adds a weird dynamic to it: can't work out what's causing it.

Beautiful shot, for sure.

the old barn
by ursula

Comment:
Fill-flash, Ursula? I'm still in PSP8 world, where that doesn't exist - but I'm guessing it's a kind of automated selective lightening thing, yes? So you can shoot under-exposed and use it to bring back details in darker/shadow areas?

Timber & Bricks
by robsmith

Comment:
Yours Rob? Good. Everything I wrote before I still agree with, but just wanted to say that I wish there were a damnit--so-close-to-being-a-favourite category, as this is just a whisker of getting into mine. Just that edginess of texture not quite there ... Great work though, a memorable shot.

the old barn
by ursula

Comment:
I don't believe this is your first blue Ursula - excellent stuff. I'd love to know some details about the processing/conversion - wonderful work.

The Eccentric.
by docpjv

Comment:
Like your timing - that eye through the broken glass is precious. The centred/non-centred composition works reall well - the shape of him in frame is nicely symmetrical, and yet the natural pull of the viewer's eye tto the subject's eyes takes one to a strong plane in the image. The thoughfulness, and the direct look you've captured is effective too. A man with a truly non-self-cntred view of the world - I like him immediately.