Free
by LalliSig

Comment:
This looks like a Lallisig. I love the hyperfocalness!

I had given this a 9 - bumping to a 10. I know how pleased I'd be with this image if it were mine.

like a chord on a wire
by posthumous

Comment:
My only 10. Resonates with every harmonic of the challenge.

small town rodeo
by bigskyeye

Comment:
I'm going through the entries, stopping at those images I feel have had the benefit of an unconventional eye and dwelling a little longer to try to see and appreciate what you saw. This is one of those images.

Positives: Great dynamism couple with nailed focus - this makes for a very impressive image. The eye immediately sees the horses and then the cow before the wider rodeo context becomes apparent; it's like the image unwraps itself before our eyes. Great contrast and monochrome treatment too.

Critical stuff: Nope

Overall: Very, very well made image.

The Competition
by Melethia

Comment:
I'm going through the entries, stopping at those images I feel have had the benefit of an unconventional eye and dwelling a little longer to try to see and appreciate what you saw. This is one of those images.

Positives: I know this is yours Deb, but that isn't going to stop me giving this a comment and a score. Loads of lovely elements here - the pristinely sharp pelican, the long shadows, the gradient in the contrast as it washes out with the sun as the eye tracks up the frame, the degree t which the pelican remains aloof from the crowd and the way the fishermen pay it no heed. Then there's the toning - how absolutely perfectly judged.

Critical stuff: I can't think of a thing.

Overall: WOnderful scene, beautifully captured.

My world is after me ...
by Kine

Comment:
I'm going through the entries, stopping at those images I feel have had the benefit of an unconventional eye and dwelling a little longer to try to see and appreciate what you saw. This is one of those images.

Positives: Excellent eccentric (and eclectic) POV here - like we are falling; there is enough ambiguity in the scene to disorientate us - always a good thing! Is this an old mill? It looks like that. The blur of the rushing figure cuts a fine form and the textured surfaces provide an anchor for the barely discernible shadowed areas.

Critical stuff: Not much at all

Overall: Weird enough to be slightly unsettling. Great stuff.

wash him away
by tanguera

Comment:
WTG Johanna!

Head Back To The Forest, Boris
by jagar

Comment:
Well done on landing another Blue John. You should have set up a video camera too - your painful antics would have become a YouTube sensation.

I'm glad such commitment was rewarded.

The voyager's servant
by nixter

Comment:
I'm going through the entries, stopping at those images I feel have had the benefit of an unconventional eye and dwelling a little longer to try to see and appreciate what you saw. This is one of those images.

Positives: Well, I know this is you - but even if I didn't, who else could it be? Truly one of those pictures that make the rest of us look a bit silly - masterful in every sense. I have to say before you put this image up my favourite image on DPC was one of RKT's:



It's 3 year reign is now ended. Sorry Rachel (though I have a feeling she won't mind one bit).

So, why do I like it so much? I wish I knew, but I suspect it's about the juxtapositions - visible water where it's dry, none where we know it is wet, low contrast below, high above, sharpness without clarity above, softness with clarity below; then of course there are the absent heads and the great puzzles of 'where are they?' and 'where are you?' when you are taking the shot. But most of all the parasols looking like umbrellas against the rain you have created for us - a storm perhaps; one that the voyager and his servant are blissfully unaware as they cruise serenely and without a care (for they have not the apparatus to support such thought) as they make their way through the protective realm of the sea.

Critical stuff: I wouldn't dare.

Overall: Spectacular - 10 of course.

Montmartre
by salmiakki

Comment:
Just about perfect.

Diving in
by Neat

Comment:
Attracted a 10 from me. Lovely image.