Congrats to you mate :y: !!!

Nice one, congrats you!

Congrats to you on this. I really liked it Brian.

Congrats to you on one and two !!!

Grass View...hmmmm but the contest says bridges! A piece of a bridge is a tease.

Hi you need to crop at the right to eliminate those branches coming into the frame. The reason for this is because our eyes go there and then our brains try to complete the picture by guessing what it is and then we quickly leave the photo and you don't want that to happen, you want the viewer glued to your image. If you look at the thumbnail print of this photo have a look and it looks mighty fine the way they have cropped it for you as they eliminate the black shadow at the left too and a bit of the sky has been taken down. Play with it, it is a fine photo!

Photo makes me feel lost too! In Picasa you could have tilted this a bit to put it on a diagonal and thereby making it a bit more dynamic. The photo feels static but colourful pops of humanity are nice.

Love this one. It is well composed and to me it looks like one priest is about to punch out the other one, most likely fighting over a woman ! Your rendition in black and white is good with a large gray tonality throughout. The patterns are so Dubrovnik and oh so photogenic. Nice one...top of the shelf.

....and low light too!

You need to make those reflections fiery red....! ha. I like this photo and do think it works in monochrome.

Nice clarity of the bridge but that bush in the center keeps calling to me. Where was this taken?

I was here, I was here when my husband ran the Firenze Marathon. Ohhhh this brings back memories, thank you for this post.

Hi, I think you know this already, but it is really really really noisy.

This is wild and I like the inversion into negative...it is nice to see you playing and exploring. This is otherworldly...good on you.

I didn't know we could do that, enlarge in high res. Yes, I saw that medallion in the back, clear...crystal! Thank you.

Yikes, yes old indeed and that is shown on your image. The two flags add to the evocative element of this photo....dead but not forgotten.

I would like to chime in and agree with Lifetime Damage's assessment. As a general rule photographs that are sliced in half are perceived by the brain as boring, so a crop down would work wonders to highlight the cemetery, which is the focus of this contest. I do think this a well taken shot and we get caught up in the repeat of patterns of the stones and we love patterns.

I like the composition of this shot and the way it draws me into it. Framing the stones with FAIRVIEW is a good touch. Furthermore, the autumn feel, the skeleton of the tree in the background all adds to a fine photo that is visually appealing.

Thank you. Yes, I can see that now. Appreciate this discussion.

I do it digitally. I store my photos on Picasa (free from Google) and they have a soft focus app. I rarely use it but now that I have seen your work I might just try it out more often. Thank you for taking the time to explain this to me...appreciated.

Educational, thank you. The photo is more about the gate rather than the cemetery but we do look beyond and see the stones.

That iron pole smack dab in my face is truly a distraction but the lighting is really wonderful and I am reminded to shoot cemeteries during the haunting hours of day!

We are polar opposites but we get along.

Brian is better but we all know he's a barbearian! I just have to hope he doesn't get grizzly with me!

Sharp as a pin, saturation not overcooked, belly button POV!

How is an Iris blur different from soft focus vignette? (with the center being sharp) Is there a difference?

Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.....what a difference! Thank you. I thought it was slanted a wee bit but I am wrong, the photo is straight and all those lines within tantalize us visually. The man on the L is exactly where he is supposed to be , photographically and compositionally speaking. Very lovely.

An "IRIS BLUR" thank you. This looks tons better after post processing. A great low light photo.

I could "bearly" contain myself upon viewing!

Yes, the natural pathway of the human eye (the western eye) is to read from L to R and that is why images look stronger when composed that way....I think there is a vast improvement

Dancing and singing, what a happy photo.

Nice "memory" photo for your family album!

Sepia has taken us back in time...ahh yes, back to the 40's. It is too bad that the expressions are out of synchronicity as is the body language for it causes the feeling of "dance" and a well-choreographed piece to have a somewhat disjointed feel.

Love the quietness of this dance and the concentration on the face of this performer. (Cambodia ? ? ? )

It's the dance of the hands with this shot. The little boy on the flute in the corner adds nicely to the story. I hunger to see some emotion on the face of the dancer. I do think the shot, especially on the hands, could have more clarity.

Love the energy shown here including that fella in the background. I am one viewer who really likes to see blur in dance images and not pin sharp and the movement shown here pushes the image into the top. The whole photograph is dancing...I love it.

Hmmm, they are not dancing instead they look like they are in discussion about something on the written pad of the woman in the center. Their costumes are interesting and the photo is sharp.

Surely you have caught the emotive element in this shot. It is dreamy and soft and the softness of the photograph is appropriate to match the emotion of that one dancer. I wonder if a wee bit of a nip down (a tighter crop) would benefit this shot?

Many nice things to like about this shot from the low pov that encourages our visual journey inward, to the dappled effect of light on the graves to the clarity of the stones and being able to read the inscriptions on them. Well done. Nice exposure too

Nice strong image, unpretentious and well done in post processing although the clouds do show as overworked giving a bit of a surreal feel, a good thing since this is a graveyard.

Have you tried flipping this horizontally so that the angel is on the L side? You have a strong "punctum" in this image of the statue and the nice diffused background supports the main focal point.

You did a nice job on this. Thank you. I especially like the "look" she is giving you! Colourful and youthful photo.

If I came here I know I would be lost for hours. What a great gritty sepia catch! It is all-encompassing and full of history. Good one through and through!

A bit soft but you surely did catch the movement!

Looks like a lot of fun. A happy snappy touristy shot, good for the family album!

She is absolutemente gorgeous .... congrats!

Congrats on this win too !

Congrats !

Yes, to this one...congrats !

So good and effective, Congrats!