Farm animals

Stunning capture, very sharp image, lovely colours and really nice to see they are very natural and not processed too much. I really like the composition with the duck's face straight on to the camera, it really exaggerates the length of the beak and makes the eyes really stand out. What is great to see is all the water droplets across the duck's head - this gives the picture a real sense of the environment in which the duck lives and makes the viewer click with the image straight away, well done.

This really caught my eye. The depth of field is working really well for this image - the front two sheep are very sharp and looking right at you, pulling you into the picture, and as you look more into the image it softens out nicely. The tones in the sky are not too harsh, keeping the focus on the main area of the image at the front. I really like the way the horse is moving through the image and captured between all the sheep.... it's almost as though you want to follow the horse!

This is very clever and very imaginative. On first glance I didn't realise what it was, it looked liked thousands of microbes through a microscope, but what an interesting way to show off farming and lambing, and how busy the lambing season is for the farmers. It's wonderful to see a few other animals in the picture too as you don't see these first! Converting it to black & white really works well, with the bottom left corner having the hut in, to give the viewer a size reference to the animals. Well done on using the subject effectively, and creating an unusual but very interesting picture - it would make a great jigsaw puzzle!

This definitely made me smile! I really like the way the teeth are showing sharp and the rest of the image is softer. Great timing for capturing this image, it shows the character and cheekiness of the animal, and how close you had to be for the picture. It's a wonderful expression on the face, and great that the horse stayed lying down for you, creating a little bit of height to capture the wrinkles on the nose. A very cheeky picture!

I wanted to give this a review as it captured my attention and I was fascinated with the way you had chosen to frame it. Sheep often do weird and wonderful things and it's great to see this depicted in a picture. The cropping choice is really good and is more like a fine art style of image. I might have been tempted to turn the highlights down a little behind the sheep to control the sky, and in turn slightly lighten the shadows, so the face is another feature. I like that you have used a watermark, but maybe one smaller, not covering up the area of the image might have made it easier to view the sheep on this occasion. Otherwise it's a great capture!

How wonderful is this? It's so cute, very spring-like and suits the theme well - it's what you'd expect to see on a farm at some point. I really like the way you've captured the duckling as it is about to move - its little features are fluffy, but very well captured, and it feels like you could reach into the picture and pick him up! The colours are wonderful and it's great to see the grass a true grass colour and not overworked. Well done on a great capture!

This is really exceptional. I love the colours, the definition in the way the farmland rolls, very creative. It's wonderful to look at this picture and I just want to keep looking. The single person in front of the sheep gives it some fantastic dimensions. You've captured the colours very true, with the greens being green and the sheep an off-white, the shadows not too dark, but enough for the rolling countryside. This needs to be printed at a large size to be appreciated and will look stunning on the wall. I hope you print this! Well done on a fantastic capture.

What a super capture! I really enjoyed this image. Being down low in front of the cow works perfectly, and you've captured the sky very well. It's moody, and overall the image works extremely well in black & white. Just be careful to ensure you remove the dust spots, as they are extremely noticeable in a black & white image like this with a large amount of sky. And that is the only reason for not placing this image higher. The position of the cow, and the way the wind has layered his coat gives a real 'windswept' appeal. A wonderful image, well done!

This really sums up British farming, and is a great capture of all things related to the industry. I remember growing up on a farm, and visiting other farms, when I was the age of the little girl in the picture, and it brings back great memories! I would have loved to have placed this higher, but I felt that the top of the picture is a little too tight to the frame of the image. Otherwise it's a super capture and great to see such a brilliant illustration of British family farming, well done!

The split-second capture of this scene is perfect, as if the cow was trying to remove the sign and objected to what it says. It has a 'news' style quality to it that works really well, but at the end of the day I decided not to place it as the treatment has just been overdone a little too much and the sky looks very unnatural. A softer edit, but still retaining some of the graininess of the style, would have worked better I think. A great shot though, and nice to see something a little more unusual!

This instantly reminded me of a Joseph Farquharson Christmas card, though I'm not sure if this was intentional. I love the composition with the balance of the trees and the sheep, and that none of the sheep are breaking the horizon line. The fact that they are all looking in one direction is also excellent - so it has real potential. The downside for me though was the over-saturation of the sky, which looks unnatural and too 'processed'. It would be good to see a softer edit of this, with more natural colours.

This is a lovely image. The soft tones are ideal and you have clearly avoided any attempt to increase the saturation, instead allowing the misty effect to tell the story of a snowy day in the hills. It has an ethereal quality which works well to support the theme of the image - a cold winter's day - but I felt the link to farm animals was not quite strong enough. Yes, there are sheep in the background, but this image is more about the people and the dogs than it is about the sheep. An excellent shot though!

What a great capture. A lovely image, and I really like the subtle tones which suit the Barn Owl very well. It's clear how you have looked around the farm, and while I would have liked to have placed this higher I felt it needed to be a little closer to the theme of 'farm animals'. As beautiful as a Barn Owl is, it is more wild than farm on this occasion. It's a great style of image and definitely worth entering into other competitions - or better still having it printed!

The composition of this shot is almost perfect - with all the cows looking at the camera. I might have been tempted to edit out the 'extra' legs on the white one though! Where this image falls down is the over-saturation. It was obviously a bright day, with good light, and I think that the colours would have stood for themselves without being enhanced further. My other question is the relationship between sky and foreground. The clouds look as if they might be captured with long exposure, but the cows do not. So I'm wondering if two images have been merged together here? Cleverly done if so, but all in all it just looks a little 'unreal'.

What a capture! Very creative - I really like the square crop, the feather texture is beautiful and the light on the feathers makes you want to touch them, very soft and delicate. It works very well for new life, like you are wrapping up something very precious and protecting it. The detail is wonderful and the different colour of the chick really shows and make this picture great. Would look lovely printed and produced as a card or print. Well done.

This is great, very quirky! I really like how you have focused on the small pony and yet it is the large horse which makes this image more prominent. Almost like the little pony is dreaming he is a big horse! Lovely capture, very imaginative, well done. I would have loved to have placed it higher, but I felt it just wasn't quite 'Farm Animals', but it's such a super image that I felt I had to review it. Please do enter it into a specifically horse-themed competition, or better still, have it made into prints or gift cards for the horse-mad community!

This is an absolutely gorgeous shot. I love the expression on their faces and the total concentration on something in front of them - you almost forget there was a photographer there! The colours are great and the differential focus works really well too. The only reason I did not place this shot is the fact that it doesn't say 'farm animal' to me. It looks more like a boy and his pet, or two friends gazing out across the Balinese landscape - but not farming. A brilliant shot nonetheless and well worth entering into any travel photography competitions.

Beautiful reflections of the cows and the trees, with wonderful colours in the sky that have filled the left-hand corner of what could have otherwise been a very blank space in the image. The pink glow on the left-hand side of the tree trunks helps the colour on the left to flow across the rest of the image. Well done on composing a lovely picture which captures true farm animals. It's like looking into a scene, and you can imagine you are really there, stood on the other side of the water just enjoying the view. You've cropped this extremely well and it's a great composition all round.