Barcelona Glassblowers on Break
by ahaze

Comment by thewriterside:
Nice photo. I'd like to know what the guy on the far right is doing.

Reaching For The Rain
by ahaze

Comment by ButterflySis:
Good bokeh but the subject is a little unappealing.

Reaching For The Rain
by ahaze

Comment by Skip:
this is a beautiful image, and one of my favorites in the challenge. excellent bokeh. this image has the feeling of three kids, looking out the door, in anticipation of being told it's ok to go on outside to play. well done!

The Fountain of Youth
by ahaze

Comment by hauntingimagez:
great shot, cute kid, right on theme

I Will Learn and Practice Discipline
by ahaze

Comment by mycelium:
Greetings from the Critique Club!

The first thing that strikes me about this picture is the lighting, which is very good. You have a good tonal range without losing your highlights. It could probably stand to be just a bit lighter, to get a bit more definition in the dark areas, mostly, but this is fairly minor.

Brianlh's comment below is definitely a good point- greater symmetry would lend a lot to the solidarity of this image, which would relate well to the title. Also, the focal point of this picture is your hands, which is very close to the top of the frame, Putting it at the 1/3 line would make the composition much stronger.

It looks like you put your hands where you did to show the logo on the shirt, but I'm not sure that it was worth the compositional trade-off. If you had your hands directly over the yin-yang, you might have wound up with the outside elements of the yin-yang forming a sort of corona around your hands, which could have worked out quite well. Seems like this could benefit from a reshoot, just for the sake of seeing how it might come out differently the second time around.

In any case, just keep taking pictures!

The Fountain of Youth
by ahaze

Comment by lozbeau:
lovely

The Fountain of Youth
by ahaze

Comment by NovaTiger:
Great shot! Good capture of one of those "moments." Well done.

The Fountain of Youth
by ahaze

Comment by eqqman:
what a great moment. i think you captured the childs energy wonderfully along with the movement of the water; even with the action frozen, the blur of the water from the shallow depth of field keeps it from being too static

The Fountain of Youth
by ahaze

Comment by puma:
I'm next

The Fountain of Youth
by ahaze

Comment by mauidude:
i think you've done a good job capturing the subject