Prickly Textures
by Artifacts

Comment:
Light seems quite harsh, though the angle of it has produced a good impression of texture here. Rather messy - why are almost all cactus photos so ugly? - but excellent on the vivid colours. Lacks interest in the composition - just an illustrative shot of a cactus leaf, really, albeit one that does display texture to some extent.

Three Friends
by leaf

Comment:
Rather disorganised for a near-abstract shot, and rather in-harmonious in your selection of colours. Some sense of feel in the materials, but let down by those other compositional elements. What interest there is is in the idea of a found moment of contrasts, but I fear that for me that interest is only slight.

Fuzzy Plant
by cris_aphi

Comment:
Beautifully done - real fine detail as is essential in my view for this challenge. Great tones, great subtlety to the moment of light you've chosen. Perhaps a touch centred in photographic terms - I would have placed it further to the left, so that the eye could wander into the distnace of the bank and return to the plant. Serene colours.

Snow Baby
by sps_1

Comment:
No. Good prtrait, of its type, but both a very small image, and in the manner of good portraits it has reduced the level of texture in a flattering manner - even in the hair and the fur edging of that coat there isn't much.

silk
by la maga

Comment:
processing means this could be the result of anything - there could be texture in the original, or there could just be the variety of colours that have produced this patterning after playing with it. Ther isn't much impression of texture given to me here, even taking an impressionistic view of it - it feels like looking at a litho plate - very flat, with odd markings.

Honeycomb Wings
by bule

Comment:
Fine study. You've captured some texture in those wings for sure - real fragility there, and also some degree of feel to the stick. DOF is excellent, and also the colour. Photographically, it doesn't quite appeal to me so much - perhaps that rush of colours in the background, but an excellent wildlife macro, for all that.

Velcro
by dsa157

Comment:
Neat idea. Well balanced image, and good contrast of substances. Don't think it quite holds my attention enough, but it's a valid attempt.

Cactus Thorn
by arbil14

Comment:
I find the close-cropping of this unuseful - and lighting from the same direction as the camera has reduced the effect of texture in the shot - try sideways lighting, you'll get mote light and shade, and more interst for the eye. Good shots of cactus are rare - I think generally because they're such lumpy ugly things.

Ouch, Don't Touch
by kim100878

Comment:
Fine detail missed, apart maybe from the extreme centre of the thing. Balance of light on the subject and nackground doesn't help, and the other 'buds' in background confuse. No great sense of feel coming through. Not sure whether your processing (though it's a very small file size) or perhaps hand-holding the shot (?) has caused this.

Fresh!!!
by tarique

Comment:
Excellent example of a certain type of work. Vibrant, the high-key excellently done, some sense of feel, but more of colour and shape, perhaps. Good work though.