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Looks like the ground is sagging underneath the basilica.

Twilight at Sierra Nevada. What do you think?

Thanks for the suggestion. Does this improve the composition?

I aimed for a simple composition with this shot of Mt Shasta at sun

set. Does it work?

Is the composition too static? Critiques would be appreciated.

Thanks

I think cropping out the sky a little to put the horizon at 1/3 the way down the image concentrates viewer's attention on the expanse of the snow and the form of the weeds

Would cropping like this improve it?

Sun has just bearly risen to peek at El Capitan. Actually shot with

a N90s. Please Critique.

This house lies abandoned in the hills over the abondoned gold mining

town of Bodie, California. There is still a rusting Ford model T

sitting in the garage. I attempted to overexpose the shot to give

it a harsh, glare ridden feeling that one feels when one walks under

the harsh sun in the semi-arid 7000 foot hills. Desatuated from

Velvia. Comments on this shot and any other in my folder is welcome.

Lots of macro photos attempts to completely blurr out the background. This one works well with the background only partly blurred. It make the butterfly alive and in its niche, and not like a macro specimen that might be displayed in a museum.

dream on

Looks like camera wasn't held steady during the long exposure. There is horizontal smearing of the image in addition to vertical streaking of the water in waterfall

Crop bottom

IMHO Color will improve this image

Needs better focus. The light background does not bring out the hues of the flower as well as a dark background.

What the hell is it??

Looks like the buildings are lying down

Crop the bottom

It's a beautiful girl. But the composition would be more effective if you cropped the left and right side into a square composition.

It is more than OK. I think it's great. The fact that you washed out the background is what made it so. It results in a very concise and idealised composition. You know what composition and pose you want, and you washed out everything that is not part of that composition. So what you have left is a very effective composition with nothing to detract from it.

I am not sure if a photo of your shadow counts as a portrait of yourself, though.

I happen to catch 3 volunteer fire fighters risking their own lifes

trying to save the lifes and property of complete strongers.

Excellent, one of the best pet shots I've seen on this forum. However, I might crop the lefthand side of the picture more closely. There is not much of the cat there.

How did you take this picture with black and white??

You captured the moment when the essence took form. A superior photograph. Next to a photo like this most "technically outstanding" photos are mere decorations.