Mountain BlueBells
by dacrazyrn

Comment:
The white space in the background is visually distracting. You could have cropped it and still kept the bluebells centered (except for perhaps the most dogmatic voters).

Blue Smartie
by Ernst

Comment:
Interesting idea. The shadow of the blue candy is very distracting to the overall color scheme.

fly away with me
by mamabear5612

Comment:
The child's skin tone is rather washed out (from flash, I suspect). I'm baffled by the choice of black and white for a butterfly garden. The background could have used a bit more blurring. The fence in the lower left corner is distracting. The composition is really nice (with a teeny bit more cropping of the left side of the frame). I gave it a 5.

New Pinecone
by scrum8

Comment:
Great color, sharp focus. It's only horizontally centered, not dead centered. My eye is meant to be drawn to the very center of the frame in this challenge but what is drawing my eye is the top of the cone which is actually at the top of the frame. I gave it a five because I felt it didn't fairly meet the challenge.

Untitled
by oksamit

Comment:
This is horizontally centered but not dead center. To my eye, dead center is about where the green dot on the egg cup is---not the main visual element of this photo. The focus is excellent. That dark corner of tablecloth is pretty distracting. Nice blurred background. The subject is kind of dull.

Very thirsty
by camelotnorth

Comment:
I'm not understanding the choice of placing the flower upside down in the frame. I think that is a blur of water underneath it but that's not clarifying anything.

Embrace
by LucidLotus

Comment:
I'm thinking the darks could have more detail. There is almost too much contrast between the trees and the sky. The meter read for the sky, thus overexposure. I would only call this horizontally centered. The challenge guidelines specified dead center. Outside the challenge, I like your composition. I gave this a 5.

laser web
by shutterfly

Comment:
Interesting effect. I don't think you need the red border.

Ponce de Leon Inlet Lighthouse
by Gallatin

Comment:
I like the red and the blue. I also like the slightly blurred trees. I'm trying not to be a stickler about the guidelines of the challenge but they did say specifically, 'dead center' and this isn't. It is only horizontally centered. I gave it a five because of that. Otherwise I would give it a 6.

Hibiscus Center Centered
by Jeileen

Comment:
The stamen is centered, yes, but it isn' t really the main visual element of this photograph. I had a hard time seeing it against the background. The main visual element of this photo seems to be color.