granny's needle and thread spotlighted
by camelotnorth

Comment:
Nice idea overall (a good pairing, needle and thread!), good idea for directional light here, but it looks overexposed on the spool, and it might have been good to have all the thread highlighted (it crosses into the dark areas in the foreground and on the right.

Fantasia
by Gordon

Comment:
Well done and congratulations. Well deserved win!

Dark have been my dreams of late
by MarionH

Comment:
Very cool. Well done, good composition, great aesthetics. I presume it's a composite, and if so, very well done.

City Street at Night #2
by TooCool

Comment:
A good rework. It's much better as cropped.

As to the other changes, overall, I like this, but I am ambivalent about the loss of color; Not that color is needed per se, but it seems to have lost just a bit of the contrast and detail in the snot on the street, and the lights in the bacground lose a little of their aesthetic appeal.

City Street at Night
by TooCool

Comment:
Nice shot; I would suggest cropping 1/4 inch from the top to get rid of the brightest area, then your eye is not drawn to it and the rest of the shot can work for you. I like the lighting effects here and the perpendicular tracks and shadows.

One Sad Fish
by basia03

Comment:
Good capture in a tank. Excellent lighting, but could be sharper.

the twins? (Gemini)
by Jamie2772

Comment:
An interesting composition, but too small of a photo to upload, and it's unfortunately out of focus.

Gemini's Twins
by Rooster

Comment:
Interesting idea; I think I would have worked on more similarity in the faces by removing the glasses. Also, the black and white tops add a nice contrast, but the black top blends into the background so it doesn't give a good contrast effect. Actually, since it blends so well, it might have been cool if they both had black tops, leaving just the two heads. Then you might consider rotating it so one is upside down and the other is right-side up. As you can see, I think you are onto something good here, and while you may be satisfied with this nice shot as is, there's some other areas to explore!

(The Water Bearer) Aquarius: Let The Sunshine In (But PLEASE, not the moon)
by drgsoell

Comment:
Very funny scene; I like the way you caught the sun through the bottle. On the other hand, it might have been interesting to try and make a more unusual statement out of this by cropping and eliminating a lot of the scene details. Not just the crack (which then might seem obscene), but cut his head off, and maybe some of the sides. Anyway, just got my mind wandering...

Sagittarius
by weaverc

Comment:
Very nice idea and composition. I think this would have been better if you had gone for even higher contrast, so the person was even more a sillouette, and the details on the background on the left were more obscured (that might have taken a fill light though, in addition to the higher contrast).