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This basically just being a reproduction of a postage stamp, isn't it a bit cheeky to put your own copyright info on that? I think you'll find the copyright belongs to someone else...

Anyway. I certainly think that larger than lifesize postage stamps make fine pieces of art - only it's not your art but someone else's unless you also happen to be the one who designed it.

I think the pigeon is too dark, the image lacking in contrast, and the background is out of focus, but not enough to make it artistically interesting, just to make it distracting.

The image feels a bit lacking in contrast and there isn't really that much interesting about the framing or composition of this picture, so unlike the yay-sayers, I will have to courteously disagree and I have to say that most cat pictures I've seen are more interesting than this one.

Unlike the others, I think this looks best as dark as this. Nicely done.

Very nice photo of the moon. One of the better I've seen. Even so, I had to rate it low on originality. There is really nothing original about photographing the moon. It's been done too many times before. But this is a technically excellent one. Good work. 6/3

Nice photo. I love shooting clouds myself, with a bit of landscape or other environmental element in it that gives it some scale and framing.

What I really like here is the frame, though, which literally makes the picture stand out.

There's no such thing as oversaturated. There is "little saturation" because that is what you want your photos to have, there is desaturated, if you're going for black and white and there is much saturation because that is what you wish. It's a creative choice, not a wrong or right.

Anyway, I don't think I did much to it here - the lights were about that colour, so, as I've heard some people say before: Blame it on Paris.

Thanks - the combination of the mouth and the eyes of this one just made me burst out laughing. One of those great right time and right place shots.

I guess it's with shots like this - and with many others - that the originality rating becomes a bit strange, for it's hardly original to take a picture of a fox with snow around it, but it's definitely a beautiful shot, excellent colours, exposure spot on, framing is perfectly balanced, eyes pin sharp and with that glint to add life to them, and the rest of the picture fading off into a truly lovely bokeh showing the use of a good lens.

I've not seen the original shot, but if that patch of smeared background to the right of the fox' head is where they were, I think you should work a bit more on your cloning technique. I might not have noticed right away if I didn't see it mentioned and the fox makes such a strong composition and centre of attention, but still, it's rather obvious that the image has been worked.

To conclude - excellent shot, right place at the right time, wonderful composition, colour and light, but cloning technique needs a bit work. =)

One of the many interesting photo opportunities that showed up on theway as I walked nearly 20 miles in the countryside of the Italian townCecina in Tuscany this summer.

Post processing in Lightroom, black and white conversion andadjustments of curves and exposure to bring out the midtone contrastand emphasise the texture of the photo.

I was a bit surprised to see so many 7/7's for what is a very mundane shot with a very washed-out look - I even saw someone mention colour and contrast was perfect. Anyway, the composition works, the silhouetted palm tree looks good, the clouds are nice, the light is fine - nothing spectacular, though. And it's all hazy and unsaturated - more natural like this, probably, but for this kind of shot, added mid-tone contrast to bring out the structure of the mountain, and making the colour of the background stronger is the way to go.

The background bokeh was a bit "nervous" and distracting from the main subject. I don't think I'd have cropped this as others have suggested, but a bit of background blur to make the branches behind the owl a bit more buttery smooth would have made this a better image for me. Apart from that, excellent work.

The Eiffel Tower is probably one of the most photographed places in the world, and once there I understood why: I just couldn't resist taking lots and lots of pictures of it or walking underneath the tower to watch how the flowing lines kept changing.

With a Finepix F-30, one of the few compacts able to handle ISO 800 without excessive noise, and a panoramic stitch of 9 shots, I'd not be ashamed to blow this one up to A2 size.

Eggciting picture.

Wonderful use of complimentary colours with the wonderfully blue background contrasting the yellow of the flowers.

Keep up the good work!

This is what many would call underexposed. I call it perfect exposure, loving to take pictures myself against the light for this kind of effect. The dramatic sky with the silhouetted figure and just the right horizon to make the dark beach not too dominant makes this a great composition.

Looks like you've been using Photomatix for this shot to merge different exposures, am I right? But that creates a very interesting effect, making it look more like a painting than a photo, I feel, which is rather nice.

Amazing photo, and the first time I've given a picture a 7/7 on photo.net, but this one really deserves it. I know this is a b&w, but I can't describe it other than saying that the colour is amazing. Great contrast and beautiful composition. If you haven't started doing so already, this one should be sold as prints and should hopefully find its way onto many a connoisseur's wall.

And it's yet another photo that makes me want to get that Canon EF-S 10-22mm lens. I've not dabbled in infrared photoraphy yet, but I've also done a lot of +/-2 bracketing to make HDRs with Photomatix, and I have PTgui, and it's a combination that has great potential, as shown here.

Keep up the good work!

As with so many other things, how nudes are interpreted is a matter of context. Why is it that so many cannot see nudity as anything else than sexual - pornographic even - and not view them as images of beauty and art, even when that is what the context dictates? Is the latter dependent on the age of the model?

No matter how old she is - which is completely irrelevant - this is a lovely picture, great tonality and lighting, the pose full of grace and beauty.