Cloudy Corners
by Gringo

Comment:
Beautiful artistic vision of this including a road sign. One of my two top picks for this challenge. A couple of small issues: It would have been good to be able to clone out some of the brighter reflections on the sign (but prohibited by the rules). The horizon of fog appears to be tilted right.

Cubes and arrows
by mannjudit

Comment:
Excellent abstract visiion of this road sign. This is one of only 2 in this challenge where I have seen true art emerge. Congratulations and good luck. I hope you win! (I hope people don't deduct thinking a painted street sign isn't a sign!)

Just Before. . .
by Shelley

Comment:
Greetings from the Critique Club!

Hits: This is a wonderfully thought out and executed photo. The natural framing you chose adds great impact to an already beautiful sunset. The bird in the scene, while a little small here, adds to the natural feeling and balance. The exposure looks well done. And the border works well here to frame the photo.

Misses: Not much to criticise here, but one small issue I "THINK" I see, though it's hard to tell at this size, is that the edge of the sillouetted opening looks just a tad softer than you would want the edge to be. That would stand out more in a larger print, but it's also something that could be handled by post processing, if it's even the case at all.

Ideas. Not much I would change here. The only suggestion I would have would be to see if the great asethetics can be improved even more by increase the relative area of the sunset by cropping the top and bottom a little tighter (making it more panoramic).

Great picture overall!

Never In My Foot (With all my admiration for this brave guy)
by Mona

Comment:
Nice shot. I reall like the effect the road below adds to this; gives one the feeling of the height/slope.

One Way
by Pooba

Comment:
Good catch of the interesting combinatiuon of the signs. Not sure the perspective shot was important here, but the cloud background works nicely.

Sunset
by faidoi

Comment:
Very good idea, and a nice shot overall. It would have been a bit better if you could have found an angle to eliminate the wires. And somehow got a higher angle, e.g., if you have a LCD that moves like on my camera, you could holding your tripod and camera overhead and still compose (if no higher perspective was available). But this is certainly still one of the better road-sign shots! It's hard to make road signs look good.

Geometry
by kuark

Comment:
Beautiful tones and contrast, great perspective effect, and an all-around nice shot. Minor nit is the brighter slightly overexposed beam top right, could be burned in a bit outside of the challenge.

Sunrise at Lake Carasaljo
by AprilTheatreGeek

Comment:
Nice scene, good lighting, but I think it needs to have levels adjusted. Seems not to have any real black, or subjectively speaking, appears very low contrast. I understand you are trying to show POV here, but I am not sure the aesthetics are good for the placement of the bench. I would guess a wider view, including the whole bench, might have been a bit better compositionally.

Fire Island
by phaedrus

Comment:
A nice photo with lucious colors and good reflections! The soft focus effect which may be a matter of resolution adds aesthetically, except for items one would expect to be sharer, lile the background objects. The main nit for me is the tilt to the right (nonnlevel horizon)

It´s snow in the air..
by Kaja Lund

Comment:
Very nice tones and composition. I would have liked a little more foreground and some "buffer" on the fence (though with more foreground coming out of the corner like that might work well.)