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Allen Brooks

Active 2011–2018 · Member since July 27, 2011
224
Photos
58
Forum posts
1,581
Critiques

Through the Years

2011–2018
2011
15 critique photos · 4 forum posts · 108 critiques · 3 images in discussions
+4
2012
25 critique photos · 11 forum posts · 149 critiques · 3 images in discussions
+14
2013
14 critique photos · 7 forum posts · 160 critiques · 5 images in discussions
+5
2014
18 critique photos · 8 forum posts · 148 critiques · 7 images in discussions
+11
2015
29 critique photos · 14 forum posts · 230 critiques · 7 images in discussions
+22
2016
26 critique photos · 4 forum posts · 214 critiques · 9 images in discussions
+21
2017
62 critique photos · 6 forum posts · 353 critiques · 12 images in discussions
+60
2018
35 critique photos · 4 forum posts · 219 critiques · 1 image in discussions
+22

Critique Gallery Photographs

224 photos
Western Screech Owl + Re-post per suggestions
Allen Brooks17 comments
3 Cranes and re-post
Allen Brooks15 comments
Snowy Plover
Allen Brooks14 comments
Resting Grebe
Allen Brooks14 comments
Green Heron plus repost
Allen Brooks13 comments
Shore Acres Rose
Allen Brooks12 comments
Tree Swallow
Allen Brooks12 comments
Gladiola and repost
Allen Brooks11 comments
Marching Godwits
Allen Brooks11 comments
Sunset Reflection
Allen Brooks11 comments
Dahlia Abstract/re-post
Allen Brooks11 comments
Marsh Wren and re-post
Allen Brooks11 comments
Greater Yellowlegs
Allen Brooks11 comments
Weasel
Allen Brooks10 comments
Orchid
Allen Brooks10 comments
A Blooming MIracle
Allen Brooks10 comments
crocus
Allen Brooks10 comments
Praying Otter
Allen Brooks10 comments
Barn Swallows
Allen Brooks10 comments
Blue Hour & Repost
Allen Brooks10 comments
Inner Dahlia
Allen Brooks9 comments
Steller's Jay-anting
Allen Brooks9 comments
Malheur Memories #2
Allen Brooks9 comments
Crescent Moon and Sunset
Allen Brooks9 comments
WC Sparrow/ re-post
Allen Brooks9 comments
House Sparrow
Allen Brooks9 comments
Sandhill Crane
Allen Brooks9 comments
Dahlia Abstract
Allen Brooks9 comments
Emeralds and Diamonds
Allen Brooks8 comments
Inner Tulip
Allen Brooks8 comments
Up, up, and away
Allen Brooks8 comments
American Wigeon Pair
Allen Brooks8 comments
European Starling and Repost
Allen Brooks8 comments
Color in Winter
Allen Brooks8 comments
Come back with my lens!
Allen Brooks8 comments
Moonset-Sunset
Allen Brooks7 comments
Great Blue Heron
Allen Brooks7 comments
Osprey Pair
Allen Brooks7 comments
Irony
Allen Brooks7 comments
WC #564-Devastation
Allen Brooks7 comments
Eyes
Allen Brooks7 comments
Slowly Rusting (WC#628)
Allen Brooks7 comments
Another Pelican Eye
Allen Brooks7 comments
Gull's Eye +repost of enlarged eye
Allen Brooks7 comments
Barred Owl and repost
Allen Brooks7 comments
Buddies
Allen Brooks7 comments
Belted Kingfisher &Re-post
Allen Brooks7 comments
Western Bluebird
Allen Brooks7 comments
Cinnamon Teal
Allen Brooks7 comments
Sanderling
Allen Brooks7 comments
Ethereal
Allen Brooks7 comments
Golden-crowned Sparrow
Allen Brooks7 comments
Nemesis
Allen Brooks7 comments
Clark's Nutcracker &RP
Allen Brooks7 comments
American Dipper and re-post
Allen Brooks7 comments
Whimbrel
Allen Brooks7 comments
Caspian Tern
Allen Brooks6 comments
Bald Eagle
Allen Brooks6 comments
Great Blue Heron
Allen Brooks6 comments
White-crowned Sparrow
Allen Brooks6 comments
Time Passages
Allen Brooks6 comments
WC #564-Desolate
Allen Brooks6 comments
Northern Harrier
Allen Brooks6 comments
Yellowstone Sunrise +repost
Allen Brooks6 comments
Avocet and Hot Springs
Allen Brooks6 comments
Cherry Blossoms
Allen Brooks6 comments
Pink Rose and Pearls
Allen Brooks6 comments
In Tandem
Allen Brooks6 comments
Daffodil
Allen Brooks6 comments
Looking Up
Allen Brooks6 comments
Acorn Woodpecker
Allen Brooks6 comments
DO NOT LITTER
Allen Brooks6 comments
Great Egret
Allen Brooks6 comments
Malheur Memories #1 and Repost
Allen Brooks6 comments
An Owl's Garden
Allen Brooks6 comments
Happy 4th of July
Allen Brooks6 comments
Great Egret and re-post
Allen Brooks6 comments
Rufous Hummingbird
Allen Brooks6 comments
Bufflehead
Allen Brooks6 comments
Siuslaw Sunrise and repost
Allen Brooks6 comments
Time to wake up
Allen Brooks6 comments
Wallowa Sunrise
Allen Brooks6 comments
Black Turnstone
Allen Brooks6 comments
Common Nighthawk
Allen Brooks6 comments
Unknown Flower
Allen Brooks6 comments
Least Sandpiper
Allen Brooks6 comments
Tough Love
Allen Brooks6 comments
American Robin
Allen Brooks6 comments
Olive-sided Flycatcher
Allen Brooks6 comments
Moon and Venus
Allen Brooks6 comments
Common Merganser repost
Allen Brooks5 comments
dahlia
Allen Brooks5 comments
Marmot
Allen Brooks5 comments
Spotted Sandpiper
Allen Brooks5 comments
Daisies
Allen Brooks5 comments
Female House Sparrow
Allen Brooks5 comments
Iconic Seattle
Allen Brooks5 comments
American Wigeons
Allen Brooks5 comments
Ruffled Feathers
Allen Brooks5 comments
Red-winged Blackbird
Allen Brooks5 comments
Trillium
Allen Brooks5 comments
Black Oystercatcher
Allen Brooks5 comments
Flowers in a Teapot
Allen Brooks5 comments
Lower Multnomah Falls
Allen Brooks5 comments
Wilson's Snipe and repost
Allen Brooks5 comments
Sunflower
Allen Brooks5 comments
American Dipper
Allen Brooks5 comments
Dead Tree Walking
Allen Brooks5 comments
Sundial Bridge
Allen Brooks5 comments
Another Bridge
Allen Brooks5 comments
Mt. St. Helens pano
Allen Brooks5 comments
B-C Night-Heron
Allen Brooks5 comments
White-crowned Sparrow
Allen Brooks5 comments
House Finch
Allen Brooks5 comments
Common Yellowthroat
Allen Brooks5 comments
Long-billed Dowitcher
Allen Brooks5 comments
Heermann's Gull
Allen Brooks5 comments
Cormorant
Allen Brooks5 comments
Yellowstone Falls
Allen Brooks5 comments
GHO and Re-post
Allen Brooks5 comments
Northern Cardinal
Allen Brooks5 comments
White-throated Sparrow
Allen Brooks5 comments
Coots on Ice
Allen Brooks5 comments
Mobius Arch
Allen Brooks5 comments
Verdin
Allen Brooks5 comments
Cactus Wren
Allen Brooks5 comments
Gila Woodpecker
Allen Brooks5 comments
Coots in the Fog
Allen Brooks5 comments
Snowy Sunset
Allen Brooks5 comments
Butterfly
Allen Brooks5 comments
OUCH
Allen Brooks5 comments
Red Tail Hawk
Allen Brooks4 comments
Dahlia
Allen Brooks4 comments
Reaching for the Sky
Allen Brooks4 comments
Theme-Composite
Allen Brooks4 comments
Starfish in the Void
Allen Brooks4 comments
American Coot
Allen Brooks4 comments
Yellow Rose
Allen Brooks4 comments
Osprey feeding time
Allen Brooks4 comments
Surf Scoter
Allen Brooks4 comments
Black Turnstone and repost
Allen Brooks4 comments
Yawning Gull
Allen Brooks4 comments
Picking Peaches
Allen Brooks4 comments
Wood Duck
Allen Brooks4 comments
Mountain Plover
Allen Brooks4 comments
Crocus
Allen Brooks4 comments
Osprey
Allen Brooks4 comments
Go Away
Allen Brooks4 comments
Abstract Puzzle
Allen Brooks4 comments
May 2018 GOTM
Allen Brooks4 comments
Swainson's Thrush
Allen Brooks4 comments
Feeding Time and re-do
Allen Brooks4 comments
Surf Scoter
Allen Brooks4 comments
Western Tanager
Allen Brooks4 comments
House on Fire
Allen Brooks4 comments
Barn Swallow
Allen Brooks4 comments
First Snowfall
Allen Brooks4 comments
Bosque Night Shot
Allen Brooks4 comments
Anyone Home
Allen Brooks4 comments
Thank you Donna and Jim
Allen Brooks4 comments
Brandt's Cormorant
Allen Brooks4 comments
False Lilly of the Valley
Allen Brooks4 comments
White-crowned Sparrow
Allen Brooks4 comments
Wood Duck
Allen Brooks4 comments
RWB Flowers
Allen Brooks4 comments
Spotted Towhee
Allen Brooks3 comments
Greater Yellowlegs
Allen Brooks3 comments
Blue Ripples
Allen Brooks3 comments
Greater Yellowlegs
Allen Brooks3 comments
Nightfall
Allen Brooks3 comments
Time Warp
Allen Brooks3 comments
California Quail
Allen Brooks3 comments
Siuslaw Arches
Allen Brooks3 comments
Song Sparrow
Allen Brooks3 comments
Sunset on the Siuslaw
Allen Brooks3 comments
Northern Pintail
Allen Brooks3 comments
Field of Thistles
Allen Brooks3 comments
Bonaparte's Gull
Allen Brooks3 comments
Dark-eyed Junco
Allen Brooks3 comments
Mallards
Allen Brooks3 comments
Whatcha got?
Allen Brooks3 comments
Tree Swallow
Allen Brooks3 comments
Birdfeeder encounter
Allen Brooks3 comments
American Oystercatcher
Allen Brooks3 comments
Blade of Grass-reworked
Allen Brooks3 comments
Brewer's Blackbird
Allen Brooks3 comments
Walking the Beach
Allen Brooks3 comments
Rock Pigeon
Allen Brooks3 comments
Mt. Hood Sunset
Allen Brooks3 comments
Laughing and Splashing
Allen Brooks3 comments
Wild Rose
Allen Brooks3 comments
Purple Martin
Allen Brooks3 comments
Brewer's Blackbird
Allen Brooks3 comments
Salal
Allen Brooks3 comments
Violet-green Swallow
Allen Brooks3 comments
Sunflower Field
Allen Brooks3 comments
Happy Thanksgiving
Allen Brooks3 comments
Rivoli's Hummingbird
Allen Brooks3 comments
Say's Phoebe
Allen Brooks3 comments
Forster's Tern
Allen Brooks3 comments
Osprey
Allen Brooks3 comments
Small Rocks
Allen Brooks3 comments
Sunbathing
Allen Brooks2 comments
Graceful Decay WC #561
Allen Brooks2 comments
Fishing in the Fog
Allen Brooks2 comments
White-breasted Nuthatch
Allen Brooks2 comments
Common Yellowthroat
Allen Brooks2 comments
Cassin's Finch
Allen Brooks2 comments
Gull and Squid
Allen Brooks2 comments
Glass in a Boat
Allen Brooks2 comments
Female Western Bluebird
Allen Brooks2 comments
Common Yellowthroat
Allen Brooks2 comments
Wandering Tattler
Allen Brooks2 comments
Greater Roadrunner
Allen Brooks2 comments
Surfbird
Allen Brooks2 comments
Double-crested Cormorant
Allen Brooks2 comments
American Oystercatcher
Allen Brooks2 comments
Another RWB flower
Allen Brooks2 comments
Purple Martin
Allen Brooks2 comments
All the Colors
Allen Brooks1 comment
Osprey and Fish
Allen Brooks1 comment
Hummingbird
Allen Brooks1 comment
Northern Shoveler
Allen Brooks1 comment
Coldwater Lake
Allen Brooks1 comment

Images in Discussions & Critiques

47 images

Images attached to forum posts and critiques. Usually the member’s own work, though a critique sometimes reworks someone else’s photo.

ID Question--Is this a female Wood Duck?August 5, 2011Critique of Common Merganser repostAugust 31, 2011Re: * Summer Photography Contest *- WINNER ANNOUNCEDSeptember 13, 2011Critique of Gladiola and repostAugust 12, 2012Re: Sept 01 - Hug your vultureAugust 29, 2012Re: Fall Photo Contest **WINNERS POSTED**October 21, 2012Help with Canon 7DMarch 1, 2013Re: Help with Canon 7DMarch 1, 2013Re: SPRING CONTEST: WINNERS ANNOUNCED!May 25, 2013Critique of Northern HarrierJuly 14, 2013Critique of Yellowstone Sunrise +repostJuly 23, 2013ID help, pleaseJanuary 14, 2014Critique of Western Screech Owl + Re-post per suggestionsMarch 30, 2014Re: Harlequins and puffinsMay 8, 2014Critique of Gull's Eye +repost of enlarged eyeAugust 12, 2014Critique of Iconic SeattleSeptember 6, 2014Critique of Pink Rose and PearlsSeptember 24, 2014Critique of Barred Owl and repostSeptember 24, 2014Critique of Glass in a BoatMarch 21, 2015Critique of Black Turnstone and repostApril 3, 2015Critique of Black Turnstone and repostApril 4, 2015Critique of Whatcha got?April 5, 2015Critique of Praying OtterJune 4, 2015Critique of Snowy PloverJuly 10, 2015Critique of Green Heron plus repostAugust 29, 2015Critique of Malheur Memories #1 and RepostJanuary 24, 2016Critique of Belted Kingfisher &Re-postFebruary 7, 2016ID Help PleaseFebruary 24, 2016Re: ID Help PleaseFebruary 24, 2016Critique of European Starling and RepostApril 20, 2016Critique of Wilson's Snipe and repostAugust 8, 2016Critique of Great Egret and re-postOctober 19, 2016Critique of Dahlia Abstract/re-postOctober 19, 2016Re: Best panoramic stiching software?October 24, 2016Winter Wings FestivalFebruary 24, 2017Critique of B-C Night-HeronFebruary 27, 2017Critique of Siuslaw Sunrise and repostMarch 26, 2017Critique of Marsh Wren and re-postJune 11, 2017Critique of WC Sparrow/ re-postJune 23, 2017Critique of Greater YellowlegsJune 24, 2017Critique of Feeding Time and re-doJuly 10, 2017Critique of Long-billed DowitcherAugust 7, 2017Critique of Clark's Nutcracker &RPOctober 1, 2017Critique of GHO and Re-postNovember 5, 2017Critique of 3 Cranes and re-postDecember 20, 2017Critique of Blue Hour & RepostDecember 22, 2017Critique of American Dipper and re-postAugust 12, 2018

Discussions Started

15 topics
Comment to Posting RatioMarch 28, 2014 · 13 repliesSome thoughts on critiquing and increasing responsesOctober 29, 2014 · 11 repliesCanon 7D Mark II vs 5D Mark IIIMarch 25, 2015 · 9 repliesID Question--Is this a female Wood Duck?August 5, 2011 · 8 repliesHelp with Canon 7DMarch 1, 2013 · 6 repliesIPADApril 10, 2012 · 5 repliesHelp with LightroomAugust 13, 2015 · 4 repliesWinter Wings FestivalFebruary 24, 2017 · 4 repliesMissing photosApril 18, 2012 · 3 repliesID help, pleaseJanuary 14, 2014 · 3 repliesBlurring the Foreground (in Bird Photos)March 15, 2015 · 3 repliesID Help PleaseFebruary 24, 2016 · 3 repliesPhotoshop CC and Plug-insDecember 3, 2013 · 2 repliesFollow-up on Tilopa BackpackAugust 3, 2011 · 1 replyTele-extender with Canon 100-400 TelephotoFebruary 6, 2012 · 1 reply