I agree that the texture and the bone shapes are appealing, with that almost sense of abstraction
that it has, but I feel the image is somewhat compressed and simple, as if it were an unfinished essay or part of a more extensive picture

I, too, find shapes and textures interesting.  I don’t know if there is enough here to work n the exhibitions or not.  If you are going to try it, you may want to increase the contrast just a little bit more.  It’s a bit gray on my monitor.

I think this one is a project you are just starting and may experiment more with. I am not comfortable with the background showing on one side and not the other. Also, my eye wants to walk around the bones to the right to get a better view of that side, and to pull back to see what’s cropped out on the left. But reference the work of Edward Weston and how he approached his famous green pepper and nautilus shell images.

      The bone texture is interesting but not knowing what it is will affect his competition quality.   Unique cropping.. would like to see your original photo. 

The shape and angle of the shot are both nice as are the tonalities and the sharpness.  This seems to me more of a Nature Shot than otherwise insofar as I don’t see a message or story.  It’s a great shot for the right competition venue.

I come from a photographic family –my Grandpa took pictures and so did both my parents.  All three of their kids caught the photography bug and I spent many hours in the blacked out kitchen and then the garden shed, printing my holiday pictures.  My Dad insisted if we took them, we had to print them – monochrome of course.  It took a long time before I moved on to colour slides and then colour prints although I have always kept on printing mono. Over the last few years I have moved on to digital work and the darkroom is no more. 

I joined the Canterbury Camera Club when I lived at home, then Cambridge University club and finally Hoylake Photographic Society when we moved north and this is where I made lots of photographic friends and improved my standard by entering monthly competitions and more recently national and international competitions.  I have had success in colour competitions but feel that my mono is falling behind and that I need some help.

I always used Olympus OM1 cameras - beautifully light to carry - but I have now gone to a Canon 400D with several lenses and find it very good.

I am an official judge for the Lancashire & Cheshire Photographic Union now, although I have judged unofficially for years.

My husband and I only joined PSA in January 2009 because we had noticed how many competitions were PSA as well as FIAP. We are both working for the star ratings, and have become PPSA. We were impressed by how friendly the organisation is.

I have recently become an AFIAP through getting acceptances in International exhibitions - another threshold passed! In June 2011 I became EFIAP and also a BPE2*, which is the British Crown Awards for British Exhibitions. There aren't many in the year and they are very hard to get acceptances so getting 50 accepted, which is what 2* means, is an achievement I'm very proud of.