Thanks to everyone who participated in September’s Plus Photo Critiques. We appreciate the fact that everyone abided by the new one-photograph submission. It certainly helped us focus on each individual’s work, and we think it will make the critiques much more helpful in the long run.

Hudson and I tried something a bit different with this month’s video: we critiqued each of the 38 photos submitted. The video is a bit longer than usual, but we hope that everyone finds it useful. Leave us a note in the comments below if you have anything you’d like to add about this month’s session.

Here are a few of our favorite photos this month.

Pine Cones, by Jeff Fleisher

We had nearly 80 submissions this month for our Plus Photo Critiques contest, and they were varied in subject and quality. Hudson and I chose 20 photos from the group as worthy of mention, and they’re discussed in the video above. We also picked three photos as the best of the bunch, and, to keep a bit of suspense, they’re announced at the end of the video. Congratulations to the winners, and to all who took part in the contest, and a special thanks to F-Stop for their generous sponsorship this month.

This month’s critiques

September will mark the return of the standard Plus critiques. The gallery will open on September 1 for submissions. One change we are making from this month on: we ask that you upload a single photo to the Plus Critiques gallery. With the volume of submissions each month, it’s easy for photographers to get ‘lost’ in the critiques. And, since we rarely — if ever — showcase multiple photos from members, it makes sense to limit each member to one upload per month.

July is traditionally a slow month, photo-wise, but we still received some good submissions for the Plus Photo Critiques. It’s great to see long-time posters raising their game, and well as a few critiques newcomers. Hudson and I picked more than 20 photos from the group to talk about this month; click on the link above to view the video.