An Independent Tree
by JiaBob

Comment by hahn23:
Great clouds. The sky is bright relative to the hills, trees, forest and meadow. I suspect this may be a straightaway monochrome conversion. (I apologize if I'm wrong.) A channel mixer conversion to monochrome may have produced a more dramatic result.

Triplets
by JiaBob

Comment by illini75:
How cute!

Triplets
by JiaBob

Comment by Lydia:
Oh... I love those babies!


I wish they and their mom were a bit more in focus... but what a sweet scene!


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Triplets
by JiaBob

Comment by lilysmom:
Very cute little duck family. I would've scored this higher, but it looks like the focus is on the grass right in front of the ducks and not the ducks themselves.

Triplets
by JiaBob

Comment by sonnyh:
Great capture.

Big Ridge
by JiaBob

Comment by samrusoff:
My favorite so far. Horizon seems a bit off-level, but there's great detail and the curve of the branch parallels the curved hills. A little shadowing and some haze in the sky, but much better than gross HDR levels.

Big Ridge
by JiaBob

Comment by glad2badad:
Nice place, wrong time of day. Appears to be slanted a little to the left also.

Big Ridge
by JiaBob

Comment by MelonMusketeer:
This one draws me into it, and I like that.

Big Ridge
by JiaBob

Comment by Ammie:
Great compo, branches a nice touch

Bayoo
by JiaBob

Comment by JiaBob:
Thank you to everyone who commented on my picture. Bayoo is an Oscar. He will soon be 2 years old, and he lives by himself in a 75 gallon aquarium with an Eheim canister filter and an Acquaclear HOB. Bayoo loves to eat red Hikari pellets. The biggest ones they make. He also likes worms and fake crab meat. I don't give him anything else.

My challenge photo was lit with aquarium lights (I have a standard fluorescent bar that spans the tank and a brighter fluoro setup that is designed more for planted tanks so the light is brighter). With fish pics, you pretty much have to top light to avoid the room glare on the glass. I did very little by way of post processing, and according to at least one of the comments, more might have improved my score. I will have to work on my digital darkroom skills. CS Elements (2.0) may be the lightweight little brother of the PS family, but it is still pretty complicated for me. Anyway, thanks again to everyone who commented.