Sunbathing with a Friend
by KristinaG

Comment:
Very much enjoying the play of light here. The echo of orange from the beaks to the upper right corner adds a playful sense to the composition.

September 7, 1969 - Monty Python's Flying Circus' First Broadcast on BBC
by xianart

Comment:
Would have missed this except for Roz's comment popping this into the recently commented page. Are you relieved that you have enough high scoring images to bump this off your front page? (Actually, "proud" would be justified). Happily for your vainity, "for the next forever" was not an accurate prediction.

Who left the tap on?
by Judi

Comment:
This picture brings home the magnitude of flooding far more effectively than discussions in the forum. Too real. Too sad.

Pretty Little Things
by Hipychik

Comment:
Cute expression and nice depth of field making the tree blurred, but would rather see the sharpest focus be on her eyes rather than the decoration.

A Wave Away
by jjbeguin

Comment:
One of my top scores for this challenge. Really linke the subdued tone, textures, and irregular rhythm of the many layers of waves. I imagine you had quite a time deciding just how to crop this, as many variations could work well.

Time for a Cuppa!
by lccm_82

Comment:
Interesting graphic quality -- but makes me think of caffeine jitters more than of needng another cup of tea. High score for overall effect.

A statue on the run
by Gante

Comment:
This could be a still from an animated version of that old comic book about The Flash. Should score well. Hope you let us know
how you managed to get that effect with the sparkling lights.

Ice Dancing
by PennyStreet

Comment:
That bit of cyan background makes the sakter appear to be gliding through clouds and sky. Nicely done.

treeness
by posthumous

Comment:
Subtle and engaging in a way that draws me in and generates a whole series of imagined narratives. Wonderful that you can get this effect in basic editing. One of my top 4.

rose
by presley

Comment:
The flower has a lovely form, and the implied diagonal of dark negative space shapes are good, but the very bright light presents a difficult techincal challenge. Having black shadows with no detail at the same time as white flowers blown out with no detail tells us that the dynaimc range here exceeds what a digital or file camera can capture in a single shot. This requires either combining multiple images at different exposures (to compress the exposure range -read up on HDR, which can't be done in basic edit rules), or using manual settings to eliminate even more of the dark range, or on camera filters to help with that, or setting up something to shade the flowers, or using a dark cloth or different positioning or picking the rose (to remove the white flowers from view and isolate the rose) - anything to compress the dynamic range. Reducing exposure might have helped reduce that harsh color band on the petal edge (saturated red can be overexposed even when the camera's light meter thinks things are ok), and could have improved the white flowers if kept in the image. Looks like autofocus got hold of the leaf behind the rose (which may have some motion blur too), leaving the rose itself a blurry mess. Would have been much stronger with the main flower in focus. Consider using manual focus and a tripod and faster shutter speed, or whatever other technical control your camera allows for you to select where focus will happen and produce an image with exposure and sharpness worthy of your subject. Would predict a low score but a good learning opportunity.