Hey Elaine
Looks like you had a great holiday, plenty of photo's here, for vertical my fav is by far your edit Column shot, I saw the shot before edit and with that little tweak it very effective, I also like the yaught shot, as you say nice and simple yet works very well, I would be tempted to clone out the buoy as I feel it distracts just a tad
Yum - Lovely bright fruits, the colours are very nice, and the patches of sky lift the greens very well
Loud - Theme wise it works with your explanation, when I first saw it it did have me scratching my head
Rich - Nice yacht, fits the theme, nicely framed just anchored off shore, a very opportune capture !!
Skill - Not so sure on this one theme wise, are they not machine made nowadays ?? and the image itself doesn't do it for me... sorry
A great catch up from a great looking holiday