Nice shot, but;
"Your mission is to capture the beauty of autumn. "

I kind of agree with the author here. If we analyze each shot to that level, almost nothing is free. Walking on the beach that's close to your house? Are you naked, or did you pay for those clothes and shoes? I think the "free" thing in the family reunion is the company, not the food etc.

Um.. that guy is wearing long sleeves... Is it cold?

nice shot Author

Nice! A little noisy, but nice! GL!

I LOVE the angle on this! Great job! My only suggestion would be to run it through a noise filter thingy. Just a pet pieve of mine but wonderful shot none the less!

great

Great shot! But a Canadian flag would be better hahaha *runs before he gets killed* .....peace? =D

Super = )

WOW !!! This is AWESOME!

haha! GREAT SHOT! As a drink I'd say too much head was there but as a bubble theme it's AWESOME!

I guess it would have been much better if the contest was named the best things in life, but that would be complicated too, I think what they are looking for is simple pleasures. Personally I love family re-unions.

Not to mention feeding a crowd like that.

Many families have to travel long distances to get together for family reunions. That's what I think everybody means. It can be expensive to travel.

Great shot.. oh, for a good night's sleep!

I'm with you on this, Ade!

Could crop a little tighter imo..

that was one of my ideas. GL!

there are many who would certainly not consider a family reunion one of the best things in life!

Nice take on the theme.

Priceless, but not free.

imposing

nice shot.

fun shot

Sorry, can't make out what this is? Nice one though!

the lip formation is hysterical.. once in a life time

This is both well thought out and well done, very nice job Author

Clever

Great high resolution!

backsplash?

THis is very eye-catching! Nice positioning and angle.

Cool shot. I think I might crop a bit off the left to remove the left curved side of the glass (so the left hand side just starts with the horozontal line of the glass)

Anyone shove dollar bills in his belt?

Whatever it is I'm thinking your focus could have been sharper.

very interesting image

Looks like a pressed glass goblet i used to have

nice image == it it possible to get the letters in the stem to be in sharper focus -- if so it would improve this IMHO

Impressive!

Did he land that? Always wanted to try that.

Nice Angle! Pretty awesome shot!

Great high res..

That's a unique entry. Definitely meant to be displayed though. GL!

Full marks for trying, Personally I'm not all that keen on the final result. Has the look of a scanned slide.

I think the boats are still in the focus but you really should have straitened the horizon.

That's great. Definitely on topic

GL!

I don't red flag entries if they have the chance to fix it. Besides I never thought your entry was off theme. I just think you could have better portrayed it, that's all. Even with a standard point and shoot camera, you could achieved the same DOF effect. I've done it myself..

unless any of you wish to red flag this, and so far , no one has, this entry is on theme, so let us have an end to the english lessons and get on with some good old fashioned photography.

You never even commented on my suggestion to reshoot

I still think it would be better if you say... positioned the 'loudspeaker' so it was close to the camera for your focus shot, but keep the center of the amp the main focus for then distict speaker rings can be seen, but keep the knobs and some of amp in the shot. Keep rule of 3rd's by framing it off to the left or right. Your best idea would be to put someone on the guitar, rocking out on it like a young teenager. Distance the guitar more to the background so it's still defocused but but no so much you can't recognize a young Kirk Cobain. That would be unique if you did it right

loud·speak·er noun \ˈlau̇d-ˌspē-kər\


: a device that changes electrical signals into sounds loud enough to be heard at a distance
Sure, that matches your entry (although I used to refer to these as a practice amp) but the contests is STILL 'Speakers' not Loudspeakers'. You know why most of the entries look like speakers? Because you don't need a dictionary for common sense. A speaker is common. Most people I would say probably own them in one form or another. Everybody thinks audio and almost everyone listens to music.