cold comfort
by ubique

Comment:
Haven't voted yet, but definitely my favorite.

Parrot Portrait
by MaryO

Comment:
Fantastic! My top choice, love everything about it. Good luck.

cheers
by mitalapo

Comment:
Brilliant idea and set up. However, I find the large spot of light at the top very distracting. Personally I would have preferred this with a tighter crop to get rid of the light.

Harbor
by Lydia

Comment:
Hope you had helping hands for this :-) - or multiple exposure?

Crazy kayaker at Aldeyjarfoss
by Bennih

Comment:
Oh my word!

Dreamy
by rsaulyte

Comment:
So happy to see this in the line up, I loved the incorrect white balance on this,

blue space
by Tiberius

Comment:
Congrats, one of my 2 fav images in this challenge.

The Ultimate Library
by illini75

Comment:
Wow!!! Where is this?

Sophie
by RKT

Comment:
Sorry, this is not a photography question, but I thought all ginger cats were boys?

Red Peppers
by kasaba

Comment:

Originally posted by Bear_Music: Whoa! Here I am scrolling along voting bright, bright, BRIGHT red pictures, then WHOMP! It's the Cave where Red was born! In a lot of ways I like this a lot, but for me it's not as well-realized as it could have been. A little careful work in post in the darkest part of the peppers to bring them up half a zone or so would have provided a boost to the 3-dimensionality of the image. The empty space to the right isn't helping you at all, all the more so because the pepper/BG division is so danged vertical. It's such and abrupt stoppage. I'd love to see one more pepper low and in the back on the right, fading into the cave :-) Also it would be great if you could change the WB on the bottom-most reflection so it was a lot less blue... A 7 from me.

Thank you so much for this long and detailed comment :-), really appreciate it. I had not thought about another pepper in the BG, I tried a few different placements of the peppers, but liked this the best (of what I took). I HAD thought and even done a few versions where the peppers in the front especially are just a notch brighter, and I like them much better, but this was "minimal" editing .... I may be totally wrong, but I thought non of that was allowed in Minimal?

From the rules:
You may not...

make any other adjustments to your image than those listed above. This includes, but is not limited to, cropping, adjusting brightness, hue/saturation, levels, curves, etc. Except as provided above, your image as entered must be identical to the original image as it came