The Letters will Light the Way
by The_Dentist

Comment:
Honestly not sure I understand the title and picture totally with out reading what you have to say about it - but I do like the picture. Perhaps he's a troop overseas and the letters he sends and receives are his own personal light in the darkness, or something to that effect? Regardless - I do like the picture!

Luminated Vase in Darkness
by gwe21

Comment:
Sorry - over all this one doesn't really bring me in. On my monitor atleast it's very very dark as I'm pretty sure you mean it, but not so much how I would like it personally. I'm really not sure what to say in regards to how I would prefer to see it - but maybe just a little more detain in the vase or something. If you had not mentioned it being a vase (and if it is important enough to say so in the description I suppose you want people to realize it) I would have thought it were a bottle or something really. Any glass object, really.

Green Leaves
by 777STAN

Comment:

Originally posted by Jutilda: I like the diagonal sense of the fronds. I might play with levels or curves to enrich the depth of the overall tones. The focus seems to be on the one in the lower right corner or maybe I need more coffee. ;~p

In terms of the focusing, most of it has to do with the f/3.5, such a narrow DoF doesn't help the photo. The bokeh in the back is good in that it's not distracting, but I would have to agree that it does lack a little punch and over all ingenuity. Remember also, that your main subject doesn't have to lay in the middle of the frame.