Obviously this is a sentimental shot for you. Hope Flocki makes a super quick recovery!
As for a technical crit:
The focused area is perfectly placed for a pleasing composition. It took me a while to work out that the head is on the left looking in the general direction of the leg.
The OOF areas and the white areas around the border add to the feeling of waking up from an operation and being half conscious / drugged. It works well here. I didn’t vote on this shot but probably would have given it a 6. It looks like a nice snapshot that you edited nicely and colours and PP effects work well but it is not an amazing shot that takes my breath away.
Not sure how you could have improved on this image with PP. You did well with what you had but the voters probably didn’t connect with it and as Vawendy said - it is a bit of a stretch to connect to the challenge topic even if it did cost a fair bit to have this procedure done. Voters don’t seem to want to think hard about something. It must be there in their face and easy for them to give a high score to within the 5 seconds that most people seem to spend looking at a shot.
We had to have the same surgery on our big old dog who is half Great Pyrenees and half Husky. Unfortunately, he's not walking any better now, a year later, than he was before the surgery. He has arthritis too and that might make the difference in his recovery.
Thank you everyone for your votes. An interesting distribution of scores ... I was hoping it would do better overall (don't we always? ;-)), but it was good to see some high scores coming in right at the end - thank you :-)
Yes, she is doing better, but of course it will take several weeks to heal and many months to be "right" again.
Good luck with your dog Alona - is it a big dog? The little ones seem to recover much easier from this op.
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