Congrats on a 6+ score in the FS. Always good to be above that benchmark.
I love good pics of big cats. But personally you lost me with the selective desat. You caught good focus, a decent pose, and pretty nice detail. But the desat really took away from the impact this image could have had. Either full black and white with a bit of dodging and burning to bring out the contrast of the fur or full color with saturation tweaked up a bit and then burned for contrast could have made this image pop more and easily score higher. You have a great strong animal here yet with the soft pink and baby blue being the colors showing it just leaves the wrong feel. I tend to hyper process alot of my big cat pics and I could see me going to town on this one so please take my comment with that into consideration.
Again - nice general pic, good score (and a new image in your top rated pics is always a good thing). I would love to be shooting where you are. Good luck in future challenges!
This is a beautiful portrait of a beautiful beast. For me (and these are really only my thoughts and not criticism) I would have preferred just to have the eyes in colour. The red nose distracts from the beauty of the rest of the face.
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