A lovely composition, but the quality is well below what is required for a contest. Phone camera?

Pocket camera, wide angle and cropped to eliminate sliding door frames. your right of coarse.

Another angle, less direct sunlight and smaller crop. Nice dining spot.

much better

Very nice shot ! Great compo and colours !

What would we do without big zoom lenses? Great shot.

Thanks. Yes, I really appreciated my zoom lens that day, this guy is not behind any fences, cages, etc. He was just on the bank.

Good shot!

Did you offer to put some sun screen on it's back?

Beautiful shot and coloring! Can't decide if the fence adds to or takes away from the overall picture. You caught my attention for sure!

Love the cheeky grin

Nice - I would crop the image to about an inch above those cool sunnies as the white hat is a little over exposed, lacks detail and because of the brightness, distracts from her cute little face (just my opinion of course)

Stylin!

This is freakin cool, I mean I've never figure out how to do a little castle, I can't even imagine doing that!

Lovely sculpture, but the photo is a little flat.

I have to agree with the flat comment, the image is a little lifeless, it lacks umph!

If shot in the mid day sun with the light above it would show off the shadows and textures

Oh man i love this! Whoever built that sculpture is a genious very well done and the best of luck to you author

I agree teebone!

I took this a while ago, before I had a half decent camera. It's a scan from a film photo. I'll see if I can dig it out and rescan it on better quality, or photograph the photo...

All it really needed was a bump in contrast.