Observe
by JamesDowning

Comment:
This is a very uncomfortable image, it feels like slipping on snow. The primary elements are the blurred background on the left, and the distorted scene reflected in the glasses. The path of focus is along the edge ofcap to the frame downwards on a dynamic path that shoots the eye down out of the frame. I find my eye swirling and sliding, trying to find something to settle and never getting a grip where it can rest.

If you wanted to give the feeling of walking on an icy sidewalk, good job, I gave it a 6 for that unsettling feeling. The weird black and white in color was a bit unsettling, I have a feeling such a quirky study would have done better converted to B&W so the folks who see all serious inquiry into form and blur as needing desat, could have voted it up.

Losing focus
by damoninja

Comment:
I had this slated for a ribbon. I think if you hadn't had the glasses on the edge of your frame it might have done better. As is, the viewer might get a nice sense of wearing the glasses pictured, but only a minority have had that experience, and the majority see a truncated element, and interruption of the chief subject.

Stardust
by jjbeguin

Comment:
It has been a goal of mine for the last two years to get the brown with a shot I like, and here you get it with a shot I love, and Ill bet you didn't even try. For some reason when I look at this image I can taste champagne. Fizzy bright complex and faintly intoxicating.

How beer can be the sunset of a rockstar
by Alex_Petrini

Comment:
Congratulations on being the top finisher that had a less than sunny outlook on drugs. I had this slated for blue.

W I T N E S S
by lobrin

Comment:
"The light was all an advertisement board around the area and it got interesting."
You are a master of understatement, this light is frickin awesome. Beautiful capture.

The Key of G
by KristinaG

Comment:
it is hard to make a flat subject jump, but you did it with this lighting. Clever concept combining two key ideas and nice processing to bring out the tones in the keys while keeping the paper white.

Message edited by author 2012-03-30 00:21:50.

Keys to the Highway...
by NikonJeb

Comment:
Beautifully lit and elegantly framed. I expect to see this in the ribbons

Mountain Sunset
by giantmike

Comment:
My favorite concept of the challenge, it may not have the eye candy appeal to get on the front page, but it is clever clever clever.

The horizon bleeds and sucks its thumb
by Paul

Comment:
This is such a lovely and complete image, perhaps not conventionally pretty, but a fine answer to the challenge.

A Clouds Ballet at Sunrise
by AllenP

Comment:
Is this Mono? Deft touch on the processing.