The Sixth Sense
by roba

Comment:
awesome! the best i have seen on this challenge... 10

Sourpuss
by love

Comment:
your expression is superb! that's what makes this shot.
i really think that you can be an amazing actress...
congratulations on a very well desrved ribbon.

Owl
by ladpupmoe

Comment:
first, it seems that the owl is in captivity... personaly, i have a big problem with taking photos of captive animals...there are a lot of animals out there in nature which taking their photos in their natural enviroment is nicer and a lot more chalenging.
technicaly, it seems that the light came from the left (of the Great-Horned Owl) yet you chose to take the photo from the dark side, as a result, the left eye that is showing, is dark and without a "catchlight' in it.
i am not rating this photo, i dont rate photos of cative animals as a principle but i gave you my tecnical "2 cents". good luck.

Frozen together in a web of time and...
by _DaveA_

Comment:
hey Dave,
awesome photo! like the rest of them here, i would love to know how you created this beautiful image.

looking at the score, if you took out all these 1's 2's and 3's (which most of them were given by "no camera" voters...), you would have gotten a ribbon which you very well deserved!

zohar

You eat me for supper, but do you really know me?
by beamsclan

Comment:
bad light on the chicken, there is no clear eye contact ,its way too dark, too much space on the bottom and not too much on the top. sorry for all negative comment but that's only my opinion. i am not voting on this one.

IMG_2264_640.jpg
by HeiSch

Comment:
wow!!! you have the best neighbors in the world! i wish i would have had neighbors like this guy...
you are lucky that he chose your porch to have breakfast, i guess he/she sensed that you are a nature lover and it would be safe to have the breakfast at your porch.

so i guess the camera was with the macro lens with all settings left from the last macro shoot... if there was a chance to bump up the iso to 400 the shutter speed would have been way faster which would have increase the sharpness drastically... well, next time

An Ingenious Gentleman Of Our Days
by nutzito

Comment:
awesome shot! very WELL deserved a ribbon!!!

He went nuts working on her campaign...
by zohar-halfon

Comment:
[quote=JBHale] .... because of the lack of creativity. The problem I see with it, is that it's just a picture of a nutcracker. It's a photo that anyone can take after buying the thing.....

yes you are correct, the sun, sea, sand, stars, flowers, trees. mountains sky.... are all there... what's the big deal of just transferring them into pixels....

He went nuts working on her campaign...
by zohar-halfon

Comment:

Originally posted by OmanOtter: I don't think it's a great photo, but I don't think it's this bad, either. There must be an awful lot of Democrats on this site.

Sean, thank you for your comment, and thanks to the others that took the time.

i wasnt going to participate in this challenge but happened to see this nutcracker, its a real nutcracker that is being sold in a lot of stores in New York, with this package that shows in the photo - i only changed the BG paper to blue.

i know exactly what technically is wrong with this photo - she is off center and the writing is not straight - again, it's a photo of the whole package. the blue BG is a tiny noisy.

other than these 3 faults, there are NO other technical faults.

i think this was (is) really funny but people here obviously had to "show" me something... what exactly they wanted to "show", i dont know, they havent had the courage to say... at least not during the time for comments and voting.

frankly, i am disgusted with the reaction to this photo.

this photo is not a 1 a 2 or a 3, not technically and not by interest - i had about 350 views during voting just a bit more than the majority on the first page!

Message edited by author 2007-12-03 01:18:04.

Regal in Red
by Balko

Comment:
you cut his tail, the background is really busy and there are too many shaded spots on this cardinal.