The Royals
by airatic

Comment:
A decent wildlife shot, though one would naturally presume its a zoo shot, which is let down by processing i think: colour temperature seems all wrong, colour saturation is almost non-existent and yet it hasn't the feeling of being effectively de-saturated at all - just looks like it needs more work. Composition doesn't do a lot for me - that rock image right and its closeness ot the female, the half0dead tree image left ...

Smoking
by drake217

Comment:
Image size is an issue here - impossible to know what screen res you are using, but on a high-res screeen it's a very tiny image, and that makes it difficult to assess. An interesting composition though, but the guys walking into frame ... I don't see how they add to the image, especially cropped off like they are.

With Out A Care In The World
by DanielCzaja

Comment:
Marvellous stuff. Love the sense of location.

A Hard Way to Make a Buck
by bvoi

Comment:
It's the chain-saw, isn't it? The rest is oh so common these days, but that saw ...

coffee and the paper
by TJ

Comment:
Like the high contrast, but I think you've los a little control here slightly - those blown highlights on the arms and hands, and the extent of the shadow areas would have repaid a touch more control of processing I think.

Hope it hits the bugger!
by MistyMucky

Comment:
Despite the title, and a slight sense of this being overly blue in the colour temperature stakes, I really like the moment, your framing, and the dynamic. This is being so often missed in this challenge, which seems to be reverting to a simple portrait collection - the preciousness of the moment, the action, rather than the simple page of the face.

Beautiful Poser
by Apollo2077

Comment:
Even if it were likely to get past the candid police (and I agree with the human thing), the overe-xposure and lack of depth to the colour of this would hurt your score anyhow I think. The reeds and twigs in front also cause problems - they aren't thick enough to add a strong sense of location, in fact just look messy.

candid darkness
by anatolio25

Comment:
Like this - though the over-exposure of the side of the face is a pity - ina shot with little enough visible, it's a pity to lose that shaping and information.

Fingers in Cookie Jar (Tongue in Wine Glass)
by marcellieb

Comment:
Colour temperature problems serve only to make this child look ill, to me. The flash exposure is unfortunate for the shaping and definition too.

Eyes On The Prize
by Photonurd

Comment:
Clever shooting, though the partial de-sat always provokes a sense of being patronised in me - I might actually have looked long enough to notice the ribbon, anyhow. It serves more point than in most such shots, obviously - and abviously the blue thing is relevant here, so I like the cleverness there.