New Joiners - Landscapes #568

This is an awesome image, a great example of using a shallow depth of field in a landscape photo. The colours are fantastic, the composition is spot on and the waterfall looks amazing. I like the inclusion of the 2 figures as well, to give some foreground interest. Great job.

If this is the first time using an ND filter, you've done a really good job. The water looks great and shows off a sense of power, cascading down the rocks. The autumn colours are good too, it's my favourite time of the year for photography so seeing autumn shots is always nice :)

This has potential but in order to get the best out of it you desperately need to get an ND grad filter on the sky to darken it down. Getting the exposure correct on the sky will allow you to brighten the foreground, so instead of deep black shadows you'll be able to see all the details!

I do like this, however I think you've pushed the saturation a bit too far. If you back it off a little it'll look more natural and will be a more pleasing image. Compositionally, it's pretty good I like the reflections!

What a great view, you're very lucky to have that on your doorstep. The colours are fantastic too. I like the flowers in the foreground, I wonder if you could have made them more prominent by shooting this at a wide aperture so the background was slightly out of focus. The flowers get a little lost being as sharp as the rest of the image!

I really like the mood in this, black and white conversions are really suited to shots like this, with a big sky and loads of detail. I like the no-frills composition too, the lobster pots bang in the middle work really well.

I'm generally not a fan of these stone stacks, but your processing and use of shallow depth of field drew me in. I really like the muted colours and low contrast look of the image. That backdrop is epic too!

This is a brilliant image, and definitely worthy of a top 3 finish. You've clearly put a lot of effort in and the results speak for themselves. Nice composition, good exposure and it's nice and sharp. I had a quick spy of your 500px profile and your website too and you've got some awesome shots on there :)

This was an easy choice for the number one slot, those colours are to die for. I love the simplistic composition and the focus on one thing and one thing only, those colours. I usually prefer big open vistas but this one just hit me and I knew from the moment I saw it that it was the winner. Great job.

I'm really looking forward to visiting here when I've got my tours back up and running, I'm always amazed by the scale of the fall and the sheer power. The white balance is a little cool on this, it might benefit from being warmed up a tad. Nice image overall though :)

I like the symmetry in this, as well as the vivid colours. Getting a bit lower down has worked a treat for you, giving you that central leading line to the mosque. It's a shame you didn't have any bold sunset colours in the sky but it's still a pretty image.

This looks like a mega place to visit, it reminds me of some of the alpine lakes in the Dolomites. Be careful with your sky as there's a noticeable halo along the ridgeline that catches the eye pretty quickly. Maybe desaturating the blues a little would help.