Red Roses
by SteveJ

Comment:
Whether it's your processing, or your camera, there's a lack of real detail in these flowers. The white background seems well done, but for such a simple composition I think you need the absolute clarity of high resolution detail to make an impact.

All is Calm
by KarenNfld

Comment:
Nice shooting. The composition feels a little uneven to me - that lines formed by the houses is placed a bit uncomfortably high in frame: I can see your desire to maintain the reflections in shot, but I think including a bit more of the hillside - if there is more - would have balanced the frame better, and would also have made more of the incongruity of those houses nestling against the rocks. The line also leads to that house top left, which is placed rather too high in frame - and too far left perhaps - to keep the eye in frame as one scans the picture.

Dawn on the Mackinac Bridge
by shamer

Comment:
Strong dynamic composition - and very DPC at the moment. There's interest in most areas of frame, and the leading lines function well. In the end, for me, its pretty rather than very interesting.

Christmas Future
by raish

Comment:
Has a feeling of being over-smoothed, and for me, isn't an interesting enough composition to really strike home. I like the b/w, but in a composition that devotes everything to eyes, there isn't enough here to really get me.

Clock Tower at Christmas
by docurrie

Comment:
Nice simple composition: even the coiled cable in the right hand tree echoes the circular things on the tower. It's quite a straightforward image though, for a competition: I don't think it has the drama to score really well, nor the absolute composition: the simplicity isn't enough in itself, and it's perhaps rather centred overall.

Bayonne Bill
by pawdrix

Comment:
Nicely done - perhaps a little lightening around the eyes would help? The obvious thing would be a catch-light, but this has a feeling of a non-studio shot. Without some sense of light in the eyes a face tends to look somewhat lifeless - but in an image that strongly suggests a hopelessness (rather than survival, resilience etc.) that's maybe the more real approach. Doesn't mean in won't just take the edge off your score for many voters, though.

The house in the forest
by Milacroft

Comment:
Pretty good work - like the sense of grain and tonality. Composition is very strong, the progression of those trees leading the eye through to the house.

Freyburg-Salem Methodist Church
by bbmohr

Comment:
Competent work, but the bottom of the image, contrasted with the upper parts of frame, becomes cluttered - the signs, the little hut, the stair rails, the trees.

Tumble Me Blue
by jaysonmc

Comment:
Quite nice work - lacks some punch of light, but the lines - both of her body shape and the background - make an interesting element.

Not Just for Christmas
by Matthew

Comment:
Strong pet portrait. Well done - despite, or perhaps because of, breaking the 'rules' about portraits. You've chosen to emphasise the disappearance of his eyes behind his fur (him, her?)and that works well - it makes a point about the reality of the animal, rather than just making him her it look cute.