Life in Sand
by thekfactor

Comment:
Bold composition. Colors palette of green/brown/black clash and distract a bit. Focus seems a bit soft on the sand.

Sicilian Winter
by JMart

Comment:
Nice curved lines, leading the eye around the photo. Slight tilt to the horizon. Hard to tell for sure but the DOF seems not to have infinity in focus.

S o l i t u d e
by phlover

Comment:
Nice composition. Perhpas a tad over-processed.

Can we find a deal here?
by Deelyo

Comment:
Wow tough finish. I did not vote but would have placed it higher. I thought all the car door parts framed the shot nicely and added to allure. You can't please everyone, it seems.

Take solace from the high number of 7, 8, 9, and 10's. When you score low with that many high scores, it usually means a good photo that connected with a lot of voters but also missed with a bunch as well.

Spiderman didn't mind the hat and tinsel, but he drew the line at the discoball
by Rainbow-Coloured-Soul

Comment:
Congats on getting the Yospiff award. Loved the disco ball!

The shoehorn graphic represents his signature wacky humor in using shoehorns in his submissions. It is not any statement that your photo was a shoehorn, but rather a compliment on your humerous take on the challenge.

Spiff of Borg
by Yo_Spiff

Comment:
Whatever you have been drinking or smoking, can I have some :)

Holiday bokeh with shoehorn
by Yo_Spiff

Comment:
Way to take one for the team to make a really good point about some of the crazy borders that have been popping up.

I think it is time for someone to start handing out "Border Lowered Your Score" Awards for those that ruin a good photo with a poor border.

Fiction Shelf
by rpethel

Comment:
Welcome to DPC. Nice compostition, with interesting lines. The dead space on the bottom does not work for me. Please review the Basic Editing rules as the clone you described is illegal.

Udderly Flashed
by NikonJeb

Comment:
Go Nor'easters!

Bird bath
by Melethia

Comment:
"It does present a dilemma, though - how to keep what you want when it can appear so differently on different monitors?"

If you figure this one out let me know. I have one in voting now that on a calibrated monitor has a beautiful bit of detail in a dark area. I submitted it knowing that on crappy LCDs and laptops voters would just see a boring dark area. Making it brighter would have ruined the rest of the photo, so I lived with it. The only solution is different subject matter or forcing voters to get good monitors :(