I feel you've done well here Michael. It's a section of photography I know little about, yet I feel you could of taken the picture at the same level as the child, similar level as your image 'tunnel vision'. IMO.
Phil

Great colours here Steve and silhouette of bridge.
I do feel composing with the bridge finishing more on the left hand third would help fill what I feel a bit of an empty space, that's only my opinion of course.
Phil

Welcome to epz by the way!

Hi Chris, Good attempt although I do feel the composition a little central and have tried to adjust with a crop and rotation but didn't have a great deal of room to work with. Also highlights are blown out on the white flowers and i've attempted to tone these down a bit with highlights slider in PS. It can be as much the background in photography as the foreground and insects don't often pose where you want them to.
Overall you've still managed to capture detail in the hornet itself.
Phil

My first impression was to crop. I can see "Adderwatcher" and "Obriendavy" have already mentioned that. Uploaded croped version for visual.
Phil

Hi,
My first impression of this was too boost contrast and convert to black and white, my second thoughts were as uploaded too make use of the rich colours of the walls. I boosted contrast slightly and increased saturation. Also cropped to remove sign on right hand side and burnt out sky.
I also feel when taking the photoraph a step backwards or zoom out would of helped as the people in foreground and sat at the table were cropped in half, I feel more of an inclusion of the street would of aided by giving more of a lead in to the picture.
Hope you like and is of help.
Phil

Welcome to EPZ. Great first upload. Nice lead in and colours. My only suggestion would be a square crop. (see mod)
Nice too see you on here and it will be interesting to follow your images of around the world, Best of luck with tour.
Phil

Hi Ade, Firstly I apologise for my poor PS skills they aren't the best, but I have cloned out the lamp post on the right. In my opinion I found it a little distracting, with it being lighter in colour and running out of the top of the picture.
Other than that I feel it's a very nice Image.
Phil

Nice colours, It looks as if you used a flash on this, giving a darker shadow on the 2 right hand mushrooms when you had a good directional light coming in from the right, possibly a longer exposure would of kept the lighting more natural without the use of flash. Hope you dont feel i'm beeing too critical its only a personal obsevation. Phil