from the edge of the Critique Club
This has a certain similarity to my own shot, actually, although the treatment is different. Whilst there is obviously texture here, I think for a challenge of that title, in the eyes of the voters, you really need to pull out all the stops to emphasise it - make that possibly over-emphasise it. A heap more contrast in the fur areas, and a deal of work around the horns themselves would have helped no end - purely in challenge terms, of course. There's also that love of the more stylised photography here, and so I think your placing of the animal in frame also doesn't help you: playing with different ideas of cropping might make things work more successfully.
All if which is not to say that this isn't entirely successful in its own right: the detailing, the focus, the stillness of the animal and that extra ping of the straw in its mouth make for a nice wildlife shot, if not spectacular. It has a strong realism, a real sense of the photographic - that's just not very DPC, I'm afraid. The centre-frame placing of the subject is one of average voters bugbears too, so you were bound to fall down on that a little. Mind you, 5.9whatever is no poor score, by comparison.
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