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I really like your smoke shots. I like the non-symmetrical (no mirror) ones best, and among them, this is my absolute favourite.

Great job

The colour is what first attracts me to this photo, it's very intense and even.

The subject is cool and well placed.

The backligting in this photo saves it from being the stereotypical hot-air balloon shot. I just wish the sun was a little higher so the clare would come around the top of the balloon as well.

Great shot!

I quite like it... specially drawn to the narrow DOF.

Not keen on the dark vignetting.

Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.

Rainer Maria Rilke

This is probably on my top 3 of your polar bear photos. It shows a lot of expression.

Thank you for showing us these wonderful animals.

Strong image!

Nice, sorry about the bloke on the bottom left... he's kind of in the way.

I really like it, I'm not sure which one of the crops I like better. I'm always attracted to a square aspect ratio, yet the DOF on the original crop is very appealing.

Thanks for this.

Amazing, I love this.

Maybe the crop is too tight.

Amazing Shot, I like the compositivon and the clarity of this image, was it taken from the surface?

Suzanne Long's comment about the identity of the critter in question made it all the more fascinating to me.

Regards,

Amazing shot!!!

Breath-taking.

Vadim,

Thank you for your words and for respecting my view on your photo. I am sorry if my rating offended you.

I somewhat agree with not rating what is not your style, but my comment was probably confusing with the "not my style" subject. I actually am interested in this sort of photography. What is the point of having your photos rated if you will only get good/excellent ratings for it? I'd rather have a more generalized view. I will average my rating so as not to disturb further.

To add some more constructive thoughts, I didn't find anything exceptional in your composition except the choice of subjects. Additional to my previous comments, I think the angel very tightly cropped and contrasting negatively with the woman on the right with too much space around it. Additonaly I find all three images too thin, like forced to be compacted into a common aspect ratio. Anyway, I don't want to be confrontational either, and I though a deeper explanation of why my original low rating might be appreciated.

Happy shooting and processing, hope some of my comments helped, otherwise please disregard.

Fernando

Although I think you took the scratch effect way too far.

People do not wish to appear foolish; to avoid the appearance of foolishness, they are willing to remain actually fools.

Alice Walker

I like all three subjects in this photo, yet the 'form factor' of each piece of the "triptic" and the soft pastel colouring of the City Hall Tower is unappealing to me.

Sorry, I know my critic is entirely subjective.

This image really transports you.

From this image only I would say I like the way you see life.

The first duty of love is to listen.

Paul Tillich

Excellent!

I very much like the angle of this picture, composition is great if maybe a little cropped tight on the left. The crab's position makes it much better than your other crab shot.

Depth of field is good but could be a little deeper to get at least both eyes in focus.

Happy Shooting!

Art raises its head where creeds relax.

Friedrich Nietzsche

I really like this photo. The expression is great, the composition is also good, you made great use of the framespace.

What bugs me about the photo is the colour. Maybe I'm just biased against pink, but I think a pure B&W would do better.

Happy shooting,

Fernando

Found these guys on the Mall in Central Park, New York. They played

fantastic and their outfits just asked for a sepia tone.

I transformed in Lightroom 1.0 (with the sepia preset) but was never too

happy with the colour I thought Lightroom was using an odd greenish

sepia tone. Then I calibrated my screen, I use it as screensaver and it

has been sort of a "colour standard", it's easy to detect if the

colourspace is not loaded (or another calibration is needed) with this

image.

Love to hear your thoughts.

All truly great thoughts are conceived by walking.

Friedrich Nietzsche

One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Captivating:

I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.

Thomas A. Edison

Incredible!!

Really amazing shot!! I very much like it. The only thing I could comment on is her expression, I imagine this must be really really hard to pull off, but still her expression could be more mystic or stylish.