The Morphology of Decomposition
by Bear_Music

Comment:
This is super duper. As a result of its being super duper, I shall now add it to my favorites without further delay

Leaf
by GolferDDS

Comment:
Awesome tones and shapes; almost an abstraction. Really like this one. I wonder what a square-ish crop would have looked like, maybe taking 10% off the left and 20% off the right? Just a thought--quite pleasing in any case.

Pampas Grass
by NikonJeb

Comment:
Now this is quite nice. Love the crispness of the seeds at the top and the strong contrast with the dark background. Great sense of rhythm from the branches all in parallel curves. Well done.

Rishikesh ashram
by oldbimmercoupe

Comment:
Obviously a beautiful location, definitely meets the challenge with the abundant and varied plant life filling the frame. Good time of day to shoot, too--the light is at a lovely angle. But where is the focal point? Could you have used a wide-angle lens to make a foreground element out of a single plant? Maybe zoomed in or gotten closer to focus on one particular part of the foliage? There's a lot to see in this image--too much, really, because there's nowhere for my eye to settle. That significantly detracts from the impact of this photo. But it's unquestionably a great place to shoot--I hope you come back and try some new or different techniques there!

Winter Home Botony Anthurium
by J-Me

Comment:
Good choice of subject; nice colors, and the glass-bead-looking things add an extra element of interest. Expoure is spot-on, too. But the light is too harsh. How did you light this? Looks like direct light from a single source. Dunno how much space you have, but if you can bounce the light off of something (a nice big sheet of foam core, for example), or put it through something (a thin sheet of translucent plastic (big plastic bag works)) on a frame, maybe--you get much softer light that tends to flatter floral subjects much better, and definitely avoids the hot spots that are messing with your bloom exposure. As it stands, simply cropping out the left side of the photo (which is adding nothing of interest), maybe going to a square or near-square crop, would (to me anyway) strength this photo a lot.

Asclepias Syriaca
by LoVi

Comment:
I like the choice of subject matter; many complex shapes, very organic, strong sense of movement. Good control of focus, too. But where is the focal point? My eye kind of wanders around looking for something to settle on, but finds nothing.

A Timeless Gesture
by hesitant

Comment:
Great lighting and colors. Maybe a slightly tighter crop, take a bit off of the left and right? I think some local sharpening at the center of the rose would have also added an extra pop. Well done in any event.

Dried Out
by mrbig65

Comment:
Great colors, love the high contrast and crisp detail. (I think you could have used a somewhat narrower aperture to good effect so that you could get more of the crunchy dried-out-ness good and razor-sharp.) The lower right is all dead area, though--if you'd burned that down to tones closer to the upper left, I think you'd have a much better balanced image that creates a stronger focus on the center of the rose.

Ingredients
by MinsoPhoto

Comment:
Glass, mirrors, and water... classic ingredients for a successful DPC shot. And I do like it--it's pleasing visually, it ties well to the challenge theme, and the concept is clever and original. Despite my feeling that you'd have a stronger image with better control of reflections (use a polarizer, maybe?), I still find this quite successfully executed and am scoring it highly.

Green Monster
by alexrad

Comment:
Great sense of scale: there's a grandness to this photo that's hard to plan or learn how to create deliberately. But definitely the soft light and the glowy/faded-gaussian-blur treatment lend to that. Nicely done.