Beginning of Spring - A new Bloom
by justin_hewlett

Comment by sprite777:
I wish my camera was this good. 9

Beginning of Spring - A new Bloom
by justin_hewlett

Comment by Philos:
I like this, looks just a little oversharpened, still a 9

Beginning of Spring - A new Bloom
by justin_hewlett

Comment by Shannon:
nice lighting..great focus...I like the crop too.

Beginning of Spring - A new Bloom
by justin_hewlett

Comment by IceRock:
good idea but too many burning spot .. ir

Beginning of Spring - A new Bloom
by justin_hewlett

Comment by roadrunner:
simply gorgeous.

Winter Wonderland
by justin_hewlett

Comment by Artifacts:
The image shows a bit of the jaggies along some edges. The clouds on the left lack detail and are overexposed. Overall it is a nice scene and good picture. I suspect the lower score is not so much because of the picture itself, but because it was not "surreal" enough for the challenge to some voters. I scored it 6.

Winter Wonderland
by justin_hewlett

Comment by justin_hewlett:

Originally posted by just-married: Coming from the "Want Comments?" thread. You're probably fed up with "doesn't meet the challenge" type comments, especially since the challenge is over, but I'm curious what your take on this was in terms of surrealism. It is a lovely photo, and I like the interplay of shadow and light. You exposed the sky and the snow perfectly, which isn't an easy task, so A+ there.

I guess I didn't fully understand the meaning of surrealism - I thought that a landscape, if done properly, could be surreal - I thought I had the best image I could for the challenge anyway

Justin

Winter Wonderland
by justin_hewlett

Comment by just-married:
Coming from the "Want Comments?" thread. You're probably fed up with "doesn't meet the challenge" type comments, especially since the challenge is over, but I'm curious what your take on this was in terms of surrealism. It is a lovely photo, and I like the interplay of shadow and light. You exposed the sky and the snow perfectly, which isn't an easy task, so A+ there.

Closing of Day
by justin_hewlett

Comment by rex:
Nice work. I think this could be improved on if you would get a portrait shot and not landscape. This way you could get the whole tree. Maybe even reshoot and back up a little. I don't ike how the limbs are cut off in the left and right. Nice colors in the sky. This would have done better if it was entered in another challenge

Winter Wonderland
by justin_hewlett

Comment by rex:
I would like to see more sky in this and maybe bring that highest peak to the left more. I see you entered this in the surreal challenge. If you would have entered this into the AA Challenge or a challenge more fitting then I think you would have done a lot better. Although an average vote of 4.870 is still good at this website. You have an eye for this stuff.