if this thread is void of responses because of these photo's suckiness, please state so
Some people find it rather insulting when others associate their shallow thinking with the quality of the photo.
or if it's void of responses because I'm complaining that it's void of responses, please state so
If that was the case, trust me - someone would have said so.
...Sometimes you just have to give it some time, and maybe a bump.
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I like your crop of the first one. There's just something about that blob of jelly (that you cropped out) that I just didn't like...
I don't noramlly like selective coloring (there are very few cases where I think it works...), but I think I like your's. I'm glad that you didn't go crazy with the saturation on the colored portion - I think that's what kills most selective color images.