Can you get rid of the crane? I feel like it is a distraction to a really great silhoutte and color take. Color is really great. I think it would have been even better (for sure no fault on your part) if there was someone sitting down on the pier and you could see their legs hanging over just above the water as they look out over the scene.

I think this is superb actually. I saw it and immediately liked the artistic effect. I think the effect translates the emotion so well! The POV is great. It's hard to say if she is standing up and the picture is from the bottom or if she is laying on her side. Really two thumbs up from me. TFS.

OK - here's what comes instinctively to my mind...probably think it's weird, but whatever...draping sheets instantly give me a sense of romanticism instead of desertion. In my mind's eye I've rearranged it so that the sheet is simply lying on the floor beyond and to the left of the chair. Another thing is that I don't like how the window dominates the such a large area of the photo, and I want to see more contrast. The wall to the left seems to give mystery. I think for a deserted feel, IMHO, it might be better to angle to the left some more to get more of the wall, which would add some contrasting angles: the base of the wall with the floor vs. the then greater angle of the light on the floor.

WOW! TREMENDOUS eyes and color huh?! The break up of the black kitties by the grey&white one adds to the compo. The background seems a bit odd though. Certainly, not knowing if you staged it like that or not, but I wonder if cropping the picture even more would make it even more intense/impactful/dynamic? I'd cut out the paws of the cats on the left and right -- just at the top of the basket to just above their heads. Nice photo.

Hmm...a photo certainly worth critiquing, but not without notes...

I'm not big on portraits, but I think you've done well here. I like the pose and angled lines in the background. I think I'd really like to have seen a blurred figure in the background just within the left part of the frame to give an idea of what she may have been thinking of. Nicely done.

The sky might have been threatening, but that doesn't come across in the photo -- for me at least. I really don't like the canvas treatment. Maybe you could try darkening the photo some, because i think the celtic cross in the middle, closest to the foreground is certainly too bright as well.

I'd consider cropping just a tad from the left. Just to the left of the masts of the other boats in the background. Other than that, I think you've got the right offset of the boat in the photo, and the colors are excellent. Nice details with the colors themselves from the weathered existence of the boat itself. Did you sharpen? I'd like to be able to read the name of the boat on the fore cabin roof.

Yeah, really fantastic, intense color. I like the slight curves that appear in the photo. The land on the other side of the lake curves slightly with the clouds in the sky -- not so much, but gives it that "BIG" feel. I don't like the net buoys that can be seen running through the lake. I think they disrupt the rythm of the photo.

Your horizon isn't participating with the rule of thirds, but I think it's okay. It develops nice horizontal lines in the top half of the photo with the clouds. You chose to shoot without any extravagant cloud shapes, and the colors of the sky you've captured aren't overly intense. The 3 second exposure is good for the water texture, and the 3 of those combined -- exposure, color, and cloud shape -- give the photo a nice "soft" feel. I really like the way the water looks silky. It's unfortunate there's not a bit more detail in the dark areas of the rock -- some detail is there so the rock formation isn't acting as a full silhouette against your background.

TFS.