Nice job. I would have made her mouth just a bit smaller, but the overall effect is very striking.

For me, the high contrast of bright spot on the floor by the bench is distracting from the beautiful stairs and railing, along with the bit of landing on the right hand side. If you cropped the bottom and right off, bringing the focus solely onto the stairs, this would be a much more powerful image.

I'd suggest straightening out your horizon, the ship is tilting down to the right. But the color is beautiful.

Stunning and beautiful.

Very nice composition and color. Good job!

Very nice color and contrast, but there is a slight downward tilt to the right that throws the visual balance off.

I would suggest using the top of the stairs as a horizontal perpendicular to "straighten" the perspective.

Imaginative, but it would have been better without the fake signature.

Great composition, with the stairs leading to the empty blue sky area, and the buildings then providing the visual weight to bring the eye back to then go up the stairs again and again. Very enjoyable to look at!

Beautiful lighting, but the composition is somewhat boring, with the fruits lined up and so much distance between them. The lack of juxtaposition or visual interaction between the objects, combined with your open composition that has portions of the fruits outside your picture frame gives this a very "incomplete" feeling, that the outer two fruits are not an integral part of the image.

This is a nightscape, not a landscape with a dark area on the outside. It's pretty, but not the same thing.

Great capture! The viewer can easily envision what the consequences of not obeying that sign would be. Nice composition.

What an artistic bug! At first, I thought it was for a Photoshop contest! GREAT capture, great bug!

Congrats on a well deserved win!

So, as a blurry, grainy photo with a sepia effect, it doesn't show much photography skill to my eye.

Your "so?????" reply displays no real technical or artistic argument for this entry, which validates my observation.

Seems quite grainy and out of focus.

Great capture. Is the dog a photo "ham," or did you have to sneak the shot?

They do look angry - I bet they're carrying knives...Great photo!

Fantastic lighting, gives this shot a lot of mood and depth.

A bit too grainy, but some wonderful tonal depth.

Nice photo, but it would have helped your composition if the edge of the basket had not been cut off.

This would be a better image if you level it out a bit, it leans down to the right.

The colors seem odd, the bird appears slightly purple under its wing, and the overall tone seems a bit too saturated.

Did you mean "trough," for where it is sitting, or is "Troff" a special breed of goat?

This is great! I could see it as a Postcard to send back home while on vacation there. Very well done!

Although I think the Lens Flare is one of those filters that should be punishable by death, this is honestly the only time I can say that I like it. It manages to add just the right touch of whimsy to this piece! It adds just the right amount of lighting to correspond with the light on the side of the creature's face.

An SBS would be nice, but I wouldn't change a thing about this entry.

He's adorable! Excellent chop!

Great capture! Wonderful composition and clarity. Good job!

Truly a beautiful shot, one of my favs!

Amazing how a change in perspective can cause a change in mood. This almost looks like some truly strange horror image, where the poor girl is being grabbed by the man as she is trying to escape...NOOOoooo!!! Lol!
Very imaginative!

Stunning photo, simple, yet lyrically beautiful. Excellent composition!

Really nice composition. The contrast and color help the eye travel beautifully around the photo. Good job!

Beautiful focus, color, and composition. Very nice shot!

There is a slight downward tilt to the left. If you level the photo, it will strengthen this image a lot.

Wonderful capture, it looks like a miniature Flying Wallenda on a tightrope! Great job!

Very imaginative!

The photo tilts slightly down to the right, throwing the visual balance off. If you level it a bit using the wine glass stem as a verical perpendicular, the image will be much stronger.

Nice, but it's a shame the end of the wing was cut off...

Without corresponding shadows, this merely looks like the Fractalius Filter applied over the source image cut and pasted onto a background. You need to put a little more effort into this entry.

Beautiful clarity.

What surface is this fingerprint on? It looks like a macro of a real finger.

"...the photo must be upside down, not the object you're photographing."
This photo looks right side up from the water drop patterns...

The edges of the hoverflyuare a bit too sharp, and the white balance a bit too bright for the rest of the image. I would suggest the tiniest bit of blur around the body, and reduce the white (Image>Adjustments>Selective Color) just a couple of degrees but otherwise, VERY creative!

Beautiful composition, the shadows make this image for me. Very well done!

I would have corrected the "pet eye" flash reflection in the iris, darkening it, but otherwise this is a very good photo of your dog.

The black framing around your image already has destroyed any "scene" you may have attempted, by removing the viewer from the area. While I can appreciate your desire to create an environment, the fact that the snow basically stops where the houses begin already places her "somewhere" that is not connected to the background. Judicious cropping of the excess darkness - even if only to the edges of the window frames, approximately 1/3 of the way in, would give your subject much more dominance in the image, and minimize the awkward juxtoposition of the snowy street with unsnowy buildings on either side, even if you retain the black framing.

The background image is extremely blurry, and the edges of the cupcake make it look like it is "stuck on" and not part of the rest of the image. It is also too pink and yellow in tone, contributing to it not blending in.

How did you obtain the 3 colors?

The composition makes it hard to discern what your focal point is here, and the out of focus spheres do not help the eye determine that.

Where's the hot air balloon???

Too much empty space on the sides, which lessens the impact of your subject. I would suggest cropping off the empty space and making your subject occupy more of your picture plane.