Cute image, interesting use of duotone as well. Not getting a feeling of solitude or loneliness due to the happy tone to the image though. Fits the challenge generally. Focus is pretty good, lighting is okay, but a little dark to me. Also would prefer that white stand thing wasn't there, definitely distracts. A fine photo. 5
I think this one would have been better in either full color or full black and white, the desaturated coloring effect doesn't work well with this shot in my opinion.
I really like the colouring in this picture. My suggestions would be to remove the distracting objects, such as the white base, and the leaf? in the upper left corner. Cute kid, great pose
Interesting use of black and white with a hint of color. I feel that if the white bird bath or whatever it is in the back ground is too distracting and it takes away from the main subject. Without it I think the image would have been stronger. I like the composition otherwise.
what's the white stump coming out of the center of the frame ? It seems to take away from what would be a good portrait. same with the thing (leaf?) in the top left. The colour processing seems odd for the subject matter
A couple of small points could have changed this a lot. The crop is a little too tight at the top of the boys head. A tad more breathing space would have helped. The white line on the far left is distracting. Actually the whole border is uneven, there is no white at all on the bottom. I won't even go into the spelling mistake :-) (6)