I agree with all of the above. I really like the vignette effect. Not easy to do on a Zone 5 or 6 sky without lots of clouds. Quiet inspiration.

Very Cool. I'm curious as to what a shot would look like if the tree was directly in front of the sun.

Way cool shot, Clyde. Great in every category listed.

great shot!
and amazing silhouette!
the tree almost looks like it belongs in a dr.seuss book
:]

Great silhouette and light. Love your choice of b&w :)

Great shot. I like your use of the foreground.

Great shot. I don't see anything that needs improving.

Shipping News - esque. Don't change a thing.

Just beautiful Ana!

Beautiful, but I wonder... Perhaps if you'ld crop both on top and on the bottom and leave just the building, train and trees might make it _really_ interesting.

I also agree with Tamara that this is a very strong shot and your use of focus and framing works very well. I also like that you have used high key exposure to very good effect. Well done.

Stunning...powerful... I love it in B&W. I agree that it does show the wild cat inside a domestic. beautiful

from the thumbnail i thought it was a wild cat. nice capture

im a sucker for cat shots. majestic and wild. love your focus here. nice tone.

How did you make the cat sit still and not sniff at the lens or something? Great shot.

I like this picture very much!! the shadows and the black and white make this a terrific portrait of this young man :)

Andy

Great details! and I love his expression, almost seems candid.

The B&W really make this picture...great job!

Very nice portrait. Nice relaxed pose for this young man. Good tonal value, although I would have printed it a bit darker and cropped a bit from the right. Nice job.

I guess I disagree with most of the others except for cvsuave. The DOF immediately draws your attention to the ring followed by a second attraction to the heart shadow. I think it awesome just like it is.

I like the palm in there, but might rotate a bit to the left, so your hand is flat?

Otherwise it's pretty dang cool.

i think it's a nice use of selective coloring. i agree with the comments about the palm, though.

I love the detail of the fingerprints and how the ring is in colour and the heart shadow. But i agree with above about the palm being a bit of a distraction. But overall i really like it.

I recognize this photo! I recently read an article in one of my many Photography magazines - showing how to do this image. Well done! I would crop out some of the foreground though to give the ring more prominence in the photo.

I like the idea, but for my taste the foreground is too dark.

@ Bastian: Well, it was almost dark. Of course, I can do some HDR-like pp but then it won't be straight-from-cam, isn't it? :)

It almost makes me feel like the left fork of the river is evil and the right fork is good, based off of the lighting. I don't see any problems with this picture, as the darkness gives it a nice realistic feel to it.

the composition is good, and i like the scene itself, although the horizon is a bit skewed. although since it's a straight from cam photo, i think it's a pretty good shot. thanks for sharing.

Nice shot Tamara. Typical Dutch! And indeed "straight from cam". Try to "HDR" it a bit and submit it again to the "HDR" pool ;)

Good work!

When I first saw this picture as a thumbnail, I was drawn to it because of the beautiful colors. I was also almost positive that it was an HDR of some sorts, but I love how the darkness on the left where the photographer is draws you towards the light, where the photographer's picture would be. I absolutely love it!

Excellent one ! Especially for the sky...

nice sky, and nice contrasts, but i think that the other photographer is a bit disturbing...

Great shot. Lovely sky and the you did well with lighting up the foreground. I think the photographer is nice. I like inclusion of people. He could've been a little bigger though.

So pretty!

just because of the way my window scrolled I wondered what a square crop would look like, but this is beautiful

Do you shoot raw? You might want to do so.

I agree with warreagle

I think cropping the top would really emphasize the your sunset

but its really nice!
great shot!

3 cm at the top, 1 cm at the bottom. Crop thus and its a gem.

the crop works well. Not sure about the desaturation, but the crop really helps the shot.

thanks!

I like this crop much better, and I think the desaturation helps as well!!

I like both the crop and the desaturation

great job!

The treatment is nice but subject matter is not too great.

thank you for your commments! love the lines in this one

I really like the perspective you chose for this photo! Beautiful photo!

Very nice framing and contrast. Nice shot.

This a very nice composition, great subject. I think it is a little flat, needs a little "punch" in the tonal range, imo.

I agree with Clyde. Nice composition and subject. It does need a bit of a punch in the tonal range, if possible. I would have cropped just above the bottom concrete pad. It's a little distracting to me. Purely subjective though. Well seen and captured. Concrete is hard to photograph, especially the shadows. It's hard to separate the noise from the texture sometimes.