Reves de Carnaval
by tanguera

Comment:
Nicely lit and with great color balance, the similar tones in mask and walls works well to bring up the textural differences. I do wish the mask and it's lovely reflection were not so cramped down in the corner.

The Old Primary School
by vawendy

Comment:
One of my top two, sober lonely and rigorous. The frame is a bit too similar to the crown moulding for me, it seems to make a triangle on top that leads they eye off the page. Minor quibble in a major work.

Red Metal Mystery Box
by DCNUTTER

Comment:
My favorite of the challenge. how you were able to get bright colors to be so melancholy is impressive, and it makes this shot sing. Well lit, tons of great textures, and perfect placement of you object.

IMG_3321L1
by WildShutter

Comment:
This is the best lit of the group. There is some nice light fall off on either side of the face to give greater form and definition.

Acanthis flammea
by alfresco

Comment:
Great bird picture, but there is so little variation in the background that the bokeh doesn't get to add to the story, it is there, a little. There are a few really nice shots in this challenge that would have been better served in free study, IMHO, this is one.

Lightheaded
by gyaban

Comment:
Im having a hard time being fair to this image. The rules say that we are to vote keeping in mind this is a photographic challenge, and there is very little in this image that hasn't been stretched like taffy. We are well into the arena of digital art.

However, all your components are photographic and your pun is carried deep into the image not just having the model be lightheaded, but inducing that feeling in the viewer with the swirling twisted vision of a migrane headache, where all of the parts dance a twirl as if we are about to faint.

So what should i do? Vote you down because what you did goes too far? Or vote you all the way up because what you did is brilliant, and every tug and pull is in service to the artistic vision. I will contemplate and seek clarity.

Facts
by raish

Comment:
I always try to leave a note for the image that I rated highly that finished lowest in the voting, and in this challenge this entry has that dubious distinction.

I think you were done in by the voter's notion of "fine". I could easily see this being hung in a modernist museum, with its spiraling questions of how an image represents reality, how letters and symbols stand for a concrete objects, how pigment on paper comes to take on the meaning of a depicted object, and how labels themselves shift our understanding of an object. It just goes 'round and 'round. Ouroboros eating his own tail.

Plus the image itself is just eccentric fun.

Congratulations, and Im sorry.

Weep
by Kelli

Comment:
This could be double entered in bokeh. I like the delicate web like transparency in the petals, and the way the form is countered on the stem. the colors are deftly handled.

"It isn't very pretty..."
by PennyStreet

Comment:
It sure feels empty. I can just imagine Hank Williams on the radio and the smell of stale beer. the framing makes this shot very strong, and finding a trailer that matches the soil is a real bonus.

Left Alone
by hbakko

Comment:
Great subject wonderful tones and very well lit. The only knock is the missed focus. I can imagine this with crisp fur and it could really sing, it looks a touch back focused. I love the way the light bounces around in the folds of the dog's face, but I miss the textures that should be there.