o Forest Light is a beautiful composition, but my tastes would prefer a bit more sharpness.
o Cappodocia again has a beautiful composition, but the foreground appears to be blurred more than the background. If you did that intentionally to draw the viewer's eye, I would suggest a tighter cropping instead and more consistent focus throught the image.
o Cappodocia2 I like very much as-is. A nice study in landscape lines.
o I'm having trouble with the focus in Bod-(284). It seems that both foreground and background are blurred with a small area in the middle sharp. Not shure that this is the intended subject. I'd go for deeper DOF on this shot to make the fence razor sharp throughout its region, and then fade to a blur beyond the fence using DOF preview. Subjective, of course but you did ask for critique :)
o Downs is very nice, and I enjoyed your choice of b/w treatment - I think it fits the image perfectly. Being a fan of lighthouses, I think you could have balanced the fore and background a touch more to emphasize the lighthouse more as a subject, but that may not have been your intended subject, in which case the image would be excellent. It's all hinged on what you intended.
o While I probably wouldn't hang Summerfield on my walls, I applaud your creativity in the shot. It has an almost abstract quality which gave me pause. I always enjoy an image that makes do a double take. The colors are beautiful, and the slight blurring gives a sense of wind blowing through the field. Well done!
o DSC_0413, while a beautiful landscape to be certain feels unbalanced. the horizon line seems to have significant closckwise tilt which distracts me. I also find the sky to be far too dull for the amount of the image it commands. I would have tried to get 2/3 of the image filled with the land, and either zoom or reposition myself such that more of the lake was filling the foreground and more detail could be brought out of the mountains. Again, subjective :)
Great work overall - I enjoyed these images very much. Hope the above is taken constructively as it is intended!
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