Vision
by bioshore

Comment by ellamay:
HI and happy new year from CC. I like that for this topic that you went with a subtle text, allowing us to focus on the shot. The colors are vibrant. It is a sharp image. I feel like the sihloutted boats are just a little too far away and undefined, that is probably my biggest flaw IMO. These items are also heavily placed in the middle. I would like to see a bit more of the 1/3 2/3 rule encorporated, perhaps bringing the boats a bit more into the foreground. Cropping perhaps just below the reflections of the mast.
My only other thought is that the shot seems small, perhaps because of the heavier border, but it would be nice if it were sized a little bigger. Hope that helps, happy shooting!

Little Creek
by bioshore

Comment by Harz_Joerg:
Greetings from the Critique Club

Initial thoughts/My opinion
What a wonderful place: everything looks so fresh, especially the plants. One even can hear the water bubbling. It has some compositional imperfections and also some regarding the light.

Content/Composition
As already mentioned the place for itself is beautiful and using the little creek as guiding line to the waterfall is well thought out. The post in the foreground is however disturbing a lot: it's not meant to be a focal point (at least it's not sharp) and it's also not helping to pass your intention to the viewer. Therefore it should have been avoided in the first place or cropped out later (works fine, I tried it). Maybe zooming in a bit more would have helped too: it would have focused the attention more on the water fall.
Also there is something looking like a lake or so on the upper right: it reduces the feeling of looking into a rain forest a bit. Cropping wouldn't have helped here, because then the creeks waterfall would stop just at the image border. Maybe moving somewhat to the right would have helped.

Camera work -technically
Focus and colours are great, only the exposure has some problems IMO: the suns shines too bright onto the stones, making them a little overexposed. Of course, going one EV down or so would not help, because then the nice leafs on the left would have turned out to dark. While the sun light works fine on the palms, for the stones they are too much. Probably taking the image at a different time of day (early evening) would have been better, but that might have not been possible. As you see, my comment on exposure is actually a compositional comment.

Digital Processing - Technical
It seems as if you sharpened digitally after the frame was added. This leads to a two pixel wide artefact around the image. Better sharpen first and as the last step add the border.
Otherwise sharpening is well done and hue/saturation are nicely set

Fits the challenge
It does not depict "on the edge" to strong, but still, it somehow fits, especially compared to other entries.

Good luck for you further submissions

Vision
by bioshore

Comment by JB707:
Gorgeous!

Vision
by bioshore

Comment by admart01:
Excellent photo and title - a quote would have made this even better.

Vision
by bioshore

Comment by Jaguar:
What is the foreground article? Great shot, but many will be bewildered by the unknown "thing". I am at least.

Vision
by bioshore

Comment by jsvh76:
I love way the many orange tones are captured.

White Flower
by bioshore

Comment by timmi:
This one is just gorgeous.

Pink Flower
by bioshore

Comment by timmi:
This is very beautiful shot. It looks like a watercolour painting. So soft and delicate. It could be a bit brighter, which you could actually adjust in post editing. Very nice.

Vision
by bioshore

Comment by birgir:
Does this lean to the left? You should have croped the image so it sould be straight, other then that it's great. -8

Vision
by bioshore

Comment by rich:
Wow. Very dramatic shot. I like it.