johnfarrar

This is superb; the muted colours and limited palette plus the careful positioning of the ice re the reflections of the peaks really make it work. Should be a poster!

Excellent - love the way the ice in the foreground looks like a window through the sand.

This may be perverse but - I prefer the B+W composition but the presence of colour. The reason I think colour would lift this picture is that the centre foreground lacks structure, and colour in the submerged stones of Idwal would add interest. You've escaped or worked round the usual problem of Cwm Idwal of having a very bright sky over Devil's Kitchen - was this early in the day?

Agree with Wouter - a nicely seen geometric image. Have you tried cropping in on the right, to lose the bench and make the roundabout the feature for the top right?

Tom - good shot. I like the way the path, the river and the dark groove between the two lead the eye to Suilven. And the way the clump of Molinia in the bottom left hand corner adds interest there. Cloud shapes complement the land. And those late autumn colours!

Never mind the broad appeal - it's a good picture with lovely lines and tones. You might be able to increase the apparent sharpness of the bottom left hand corner just by increasing contrast locally there. Those curves are sumptuous!

Superbly framed and composed in what I guess were challenging conditions! What does it look like with the snow a little bit brighter?

Tom - you found a better viewpoint than I did when I was there in similar conditions about 2 weeks ago! I couldn't solve the problem of getting some of the R Kirkaig into the picture at the same time as getting Suilven far enough away from the left side, and my one comment on your pic is that 'moving' Suilven a little towards the centre would help. If Meall Beag had been out of cloud, that would have helped.

Nicola - this photo shows you have a nice eye for a picture - so don't worry about lack of confidence; just keep taking pictures, and be your own critic and editor. Cartier-Bresson said something like 'your first 10,000 pictures are your worst'! 

Ian - this is a beautiful image, both conception and execution excellent. Interesting that the polariser has worked so well on the water but the foreground rock has what look like reflections. I've tried trimming just a little off the lhs and can't decide if centering the rocks a little more weakens or strngthens the image.  

Fyi - it's not a moss, it's a lichen (perhaps a genus called Evernia?). More importantly - nice picture, they're quite hard to photograph well. The contrast with the red rock is pleasing.

A lovely, quiet picture. These are hard to do well and you've succeeded. Maybe it's partly a question of getting the detail/texture of the right size in proportion to the frame - this one works.

Excellent image - I like the way the Z shape holds it together. Have you tried shaving just a small amount off the rhs, to lose the lighted rock at bottom right?

The very strong composition plus b+W conversion lifts this above the many, many 'water flowing round rocks' shots. The big rock mesmerises...

Not as convinced by this as by most of your others. Background texture is great, cool+warm light is good, but the tree canopy doesn't stand out quite enough from the background, especially in the centre.  But maybe that's just me.

Lovely, calm and balanced; does justice to the place. The surf line in the foreground works well. And you even resisted the view of Ben Mor Coigach off to the right...

Excellent; dramatic but controlled. Am intrigued by what a colour version would be like - presumably mainly blue-greys, but unbalanced by green of the grass at bottom right?

A lovely, quiet image; I like the subtle diagonals that work with the fallen tree.

Lovely tranquil composition, superb light. A slight crop of the right hand side (to the col) has quite an effect, but am not sure if it's better or worse!

A superb version of a classic view - beats some of the better known ones! Like the way the clouds pull out to the top corners, really finishes off the top of the pic. I'd be tempted to darken the sky on the left horizon just a little. But definitely one for the wall! Best, John Farrar

Ian - nice to see a new treatment of the big shepherd. I like the muted look - our hills are like that. Only comment - cutting the 2 snow-topped rocks on the left takes the eye out left. Darken the frosted tops?