Spirited
by IreneM

Comment:
This is a great image... I love the detail, and the feeling of flames... a cauldron perhaps. Colours and and composition is excellent... reckon it's at least a top 10 finisher.

Blended
by JaimeVinas

Comment:
Wow... this is unique... in a good way! I absolutely love this image, though I don't understand the title... I haven't let that effect my voting (which I did earlier). Kudos for doing something so different... I was dreading voting on this challenge, and it was images such as this and a handful of other that made it quite enjoyable... this was one of the cherries in the pacman maze that the flowers challenge was. Well done!

Bloom
by quiet_observation

Comment:
This in out-and-out the best image of the challenge IMO. Love everything about it... composition brilliant, sharpness might be a little soft in the centre of the flower... and its very different from all the others in the challenge, which gets major browny points in my book... will probably ribbon, and will not be surprised if it wins a posthumous or something similar too.

...the rocket's red glare...
by DrAchoo

Comment:
I have to say I pick this as being your entry (is that your daughter on the right). I'm surprised that this didn't ribbon. As I mentioned, this was my favourite photo in the challenge...

Head Shot
by scalvert

Comment:
Congratulations on taking out the blue. Good to see a fun photo do well on DPC.

Sea of Love
by halopes

Comment:
Congratulations on the red... well and truly deserved. Well done.

Unscheduled Surveillance
by raish

Comment:
It's a very interesting shadow cast. The colour and noise fit the surveillance theme setup by the title nicely... would have liked to see more detail, but I imagine that the camera was probably at its limits taking this as is.

From Within
by LadyK

Comment:
This is another flower shot that I perhaps was too quick to judge too harshly during voting... but I've changed... please see my comment on skewsme's verde-go photo.

I perhaps might have liked the DOF to have included the petals... too much of it is too soft for my liking, and the centred composition... meh...

Anyway... rest assured, the next time you submit a flower photo, and I vote on it... I'll be fairer and not discriminate against it b/c of my hatred for flower.

verde-go
by skewsme

Comment:
I hate flowers... but at least your flower had a bug in it. ;)

Seriously, this is quite a nice photo, and the shallow DOF has been used brilliantly to draw all the attention to the bug. I quite like this... and think it was my highest rated flower photo in challenge. :)

Again, I digress. Colour's good, perhaps an iota falt, composition is spot on. Well done... probably deserved to do better with the voters, but I blame those voters that see flowers and turn of w/o giving them enough of a chance... and I have to admit I'm one of those... or was... I've developed an appreciation of them following Flowers II and will endeavour to give them more time in the future. I am a reformed flower hater... well, maybe not... I still hate them, but will not be so quick to judge them in future.

a tribute to bucket
by posthumous

Comment:
This is a view my wife has become very familiar with over the years, and was up until recently (thank science for some wonderful anti-nausea drugs) again experiencing several time a day... though he bucket lacked the feathers.

Nice image. I love the feathers and the processing. Initially, I wasn't sure about the composition, though the more I look at it, the better the non-centred bucket is. I perhaps may have not cropped so close to the handle on the left, and may have cropped out the bar at the bottom of the image... and perhaps straighten the horizontal bars...