Loner
by Tarbini

Comment by LucidLotus:
Fits the challenge well, I love the sadness of the piece. Even the poor bird looks unhappy. Colors and lighting are good, very emotive image. Nice focus. The one thing that distracts for me is the border though. It being so bright of a contrast to the image draws my eyes away. Great shot. 8

Loner
by Tarbini

Comment by waterlilies:
The background is very stylized. I'd like to see what it really looked like.

Loner
by Tarbini

Comment by fisheye:
Posture of the bird helps capture the theme...

Loner
by Tarbini

Comment by pcody:
I am giving you a 7 because I like the desolation and abandoned feeling of this. Really a good capture with lots of visual interest.
If I were voting on quality, I would not rate this high. I don't like whatever happened to the background, it's not blurred like a lens would do. I suspect neat image. The area to the right is also like that.

Loner
by Tarbini

Comment by Pidd:
This is a neat shot. Try cropping it so the bird is off-center and see if that doesn't work even better...to add a little more interest. Also, I don't care for the border much but I never adjust my scores based on that.

Loner
by Tarbini

Comment by Zamagura:
Nice capture of black bird sitting on the post, to make more impact I'd try to stay away from center composition.

Loner
by Tarbini

Comment by xhoss:
great catch on this one - the pose is perfect. nice work.

Loner
by Tarbini

Comment by Shannon:
Great shot...the old broken down fence really adds to this shot. Nice work! 9

Mystery Revealed
by Tarbini

Comment by Gracious:
yep! That's the mystery revealed...Christ in me, the hope of glory!!! For that I am so thankful.
Good job. :-)

Mystery Revealed
by Tarbini

Comment by Imagineer:
The depth of field is just too narrow for my liking. As far as Exposed goes this does tend to push the challenge a bit too literally for me. Composition is good but colour is a tad on the green side. Using some softer lighting/shadows would make this more interesting and allow a longer exposure and DOF.