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I don't have a problem with the shutter speed although it would be nice if there was just a bit more of that green color amongst the white.  There is no right or wrong for an artist.

Please view larger and let me know how to improve.

Thanks!

Exfoliating bark and granite, from my most recent mountain backpack trip.  Please view larger and tell me how to improve this image (especially if you rate it as average or worse.)

...or less depth of field so that the foreground vegetation pops against the complex background.

Spectacular clouds and wonderful composition.  I could see increasing the contrast in the foreground vegetation somewhat so that it can hold its own with the clouds.

I don't think that there's enough of the rock on the left to make this composition work.  I'd probably crop it out because the light on the trees below is sublime.

Maybe like this:

howdy, neighbor!  I think maybe a longer lens would have been my choice here to crop out the lights on the left, eliminate the ho-hum foreground, and bring more attention to the subjects of the composition which I assume are the bonsai rock and the milky way.  There's a bit of a CW rotation too. 

If you still wanted to keep some of that light on the right side then you could just get the rock and milky way more off-center.

Beautiful waterfall shot with just the right amount of motion.  My only suggestion might be to clone out that square object right in front of the brightest part of the image as it sort of breaks up the flow.  It's even a distraction for me on the uncropped version.

What Christoph said... nicely composed and realistic.  Might make a nice B+W too.

just gorgeous, Jeff.  Love the understated, realistic color and saturation on this, the spray in the distance, the in-the-moment effect it has on me

Thank you Line!

They definitely have them in swampy areas back east... it was my favorite plant as a kid growing up in NJ.  I have some in my yard now but for some reason the domestic versions are just stalks, they don't get the frilly layers.

I'd crop out that dark spot in the lower left corner.  There might be a slight clockwise rotation.  Saya cinta danau Toba!

Interstate 80 over the American River at sundown

pretty perfect

Superb image, Alf.  There's some vignetting on both sides that really doesn't bother me as it brings attention to the main mountain and the rocks.

I'd crop this right where that "X" is on the right side of the far building to eliminate the bright whites on the right side and top.  Like the effect of this image other than that. 

Love the light Sam and the image title (most of my images have similar names ;-)  Some people say that the reflection should never be brighter than the actual light but others say rules are meant to be broken... you decide!

Image with a lot of potential.  The left side is kind of dark relative to the right, almost like you've got your GND filter on sideways... I should know, I've done that ;-)  Other than that I like the composition.  I'd clone out that bright spot in the center of the ridge in the distance.

hey, Jim, I think it's pretty sharp for a handheld 300mm lens in early morning light!  ;-)  Thanks for taking the time to comment, your cropping suggestion makes sense, especially from the top.

I don't remember, Ajay, why I framed it this way but I was on a moving boat myself and maybe the other images I took in this sequence (when he was on the left side) had some motion blur.  Thanks for taking the time to comment!

Hi Jean, thanks for the comment!  In some ways I like the way the dove looks to be part of the landscape at least color-wise. 

It would have been great if a cloud shadow had been behind the bird and branch but I was too nervous about the bird flying off before that happened.  I don't do a lot of bird images ;-)

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