Hope this doesnt get destroyed, a 6 would be nice though....
PP: Dissapointing. However, thanks for the few great comments about this that showed me why it didnt do well in the voting. I see that people didnt feel that it met the challenge.
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Nice image Brandon. Even though it didn´t fit the challenge all that well its a good shot and you should definitely experiment with this technique in other challenges. I am sure it will do well.
This was actually one of my favorites. I think this might have done better in a different challenge. The colors are really very nice and the tree seems almost other worldly here, I scored one of your 9s.
I like the purple of the sky. Nice idea to paint the tree with some light, but it might have looked a bit nicer if you painted it from a 45-degree angle to include a bit of shadow too!
The main subject here seems to be the tree which is being illuminated by an external light source as far as I can see even though you are trying to point us to the stars as the main subject. Beautiful shot but form me I dont think you should have illuminated the tree for this one.