The Strid
by SaraR

Comment by meyers:
This looks like a Bear_Music shot! The sky is a little blown out though. It sounds like you might have benefited from a polarizing or some kind of gradient filter to lower the exposure a bit.

The Wind Gently Blows
by SaraR

Comment by meyers:
The background bokeh has a dreamy quality. I think if the leaves just to the left of the center ones were sharp this would have scored much higher.

Cold and Wet
by SaraR

Comment by meyers:
There's a lot happening in this shot. Given your conditions, I might have tried to pick out something that'd line up in the narrow DOF, like the brown grassy thing behind the right flower looking thing (I'm bad at botany). The large blurred flower looking thing on the left demands attention with its color, but ends up being just a distraction.

Imposing
by SaraR

Comment by meyers:
Very sharp, great contrast and leading lines, no wonder you picked this for a "best of" entry!

Coming in to land
by SaraR

Comment by meyers:
The clipped wing doesn't bother me too much; it almost makes the bird look like he's a little closer. The second one in the background doesn't intersect with the first at all, and is framed nicely by the subject's wing. Unfortunately, the bird and the water are both washed shades of gray. With advanced editing, you could give the water a slight blue tint, making both birds jump out a bit.

The harbour
by SaraR

Comment by meyers:
The colors are bright and bold, but I found the hard shadows on the middle boat distracting, and the buildings in the background blended in to the subjects giving a cluttered appearance. Looking with my "crop hands", I might have picked the bottom of the two right boats with their reflections, using the reflection itself as the subject.

Free as a Bird
by SaraR

Comment by meyers:
Sheesh, did the voters here want you to place a reflector board under the seagull to give some fill light? This is a great panning shot. The boat-like thing on the right is a little weird, but not that distracting. The colors look a little flat; maybe a bump in saturation or a poke of the curves adjustment would make this picture pop more.

The Boxing Match
by SaraR

Comment by meyers:
This is one of my favorites! The position of the warriors against the wide tree in the background just balances the shot perfectly.

I Can See You!
by SaraR

Comment by meyers:
I think a portrait orientation around the right rabbit, placing him toward the lower left a bit, would have been a more compelling picture. Without the right rabbit, I'd have no idea what the thing on the left was.

Spring is here!
by SaraR

Comment by meyers:
Looks like I owe you 10 comments for winning our Free Study side challenge. Your DOF here is perfect, and I really like the 3 bands of color further framing the rabbits. The solid blur in the extreme forground it a bit distracting; for whatever reason I like background bokeh more than foreground bokeh.