Icescapes
by CodeShark

Comment by ciaeagle:
Greetings from the Critique Club!
I second Cyrilda's comment ... this definitely makes me feel the cold. Brr! I love the wonderful muted colors in the sky and the terrific exposure that allows me to see the detail of the ice. In some ways the flow of the ice almost looks like the bodies of many dolphins as they swim along. My struggle with the ice though is that the lines don't lead me to a focal point. While definitely beautiful, there's a lot going on in the details. Of course, that can be the fun of a picture too! :)

Icescapes
by CodeShark

Comment by Cyrilda:
Beautiful but it makes me shiver.

Patagonian Reflections
by CodeShark

Comment by snaffles:
Greetings from the Critique Club!

Congrats on a very well-deserved finish, and I am going to disagree with those saying that the hiker shouldn't be there. Brett helps make the shot by adding a human dimension. OK, maybe he is a little dark, and perhaps shooting him from a bit farher back so he would be dwarfed (even more) by the mountains would have helped, but still this is an excellent shot. The chunks of ice make me shiver! The scenery is fantastic, and the peak of his hat is echoed in the mountains behind.

Please keep shooting and entering challenges here, you have an eye and I think you could kick some butt here :-)

Susan

Patagonian Reflections
by CodeShark

Comment by grahamgator:
Wonderful scene, so majestic. The person seems a bit dark for the scene, but it does not take away.

Patagonian Reflections
by CodeShark

Comment by jim29028:
beautiful scene, would prefer this without the hiker, just enjoying the scenery

Ocypode quadrata
by CodeShark

Comment by sidpixel:
*Hello from Sid and the Critique Club*

A cute subject that meets the challenge well.

What a lovely little crab, you've captured it nicely with a shallow DOF isolating him from the sand background, I disagree with one of your commenters, the eye looks in good sharp focus, exactly how it should be, the problem is that the detail on the shoe canvas competes. It's a shame his eye is obscured by sand it makes it feel rather painful!

What I don't like is that the shoe dominates the crab and the image as a whole, I feel there is a strong argument for a judicial crop close to the crab's leg, a square would probably work well, there is just too much shoe and too much distracting detail in it. I like that the crab forms a diagonal within the image it strengthens the composition.

Thanks for submitting, Sid

Cascading Lines
by CodeShark

Comment by JakeKurdsjuk:
The female is lost in this shot, almost to the point of being a distraction rather than the subject to which you're leading. There's a really nice photo in there somewhere, but you've got too much in the frame.

Cascading Lines
by CodeShark

Comment by Zita:
Beautiful scene. Five.

Top Deck, Nassau, Bahamas
by CodeShark

Comment by posthumous:

Originally posted by herfotoman: I like the cat.

took me a long time to find the cat....

Top Deck, Nassau, Bahamas
by CodeShark

Comment by posthumous:
love the mysterious, separate areas of color. a strange image that refuses to cohere into one photograph.


hanging this in my fantasy art gallery