Panda Lunch

Ingrid, IMHO this shot does not show the panda well. For me there is not enough of the pandas face showing, and the green sort of overwhelms the image. If you could have gotten the panda's face turned more towards you I feel you would have had a much better photo.

Ingrid, I quite like the rich green background. My wish would be for a tiny bit more depth of field, enough to include the ear. Stopping down would've given that but we don't know what the background would have become! I am drawn to the interesting color of the eye and the bright green bamboo diagonal. If possible (given surroundings) this might have been a great candidate for a vertical format.

Ingrid, I like this image for the clarity of that eye, the lovely lush green BG and the diagonal placement of that bamboo stick. I do understand the comments made and feel that a tiny bit more DOF could help, without sacrificing that smooth BG too much. As for the comp, I would be inclined to crop this a little tighter by cropping a sliver off the left and top. One last remarks concerns the black chest, which looks completely blocked up, perhaps in the RAW file you could still retrieve some detail there.