Rosemary with wall
by hajeka

Comment:
I like your use of brickwork to provide a white background. The texture and subtle toning participate in the image. I also like the spiky jitter of rosemary, its lines projecting every which way off a strong vertical. This balanced by the underemphasized horizontals of the layers of cement. Key is the bright sunlight that brings out the rosemary, and causses it to fade into the background lower down. Thus it seems evanescent, a shimmer of shyness. A wallflower?
Thank you.

Sun Above
by Lydia

Comment:
This is a short poem, fine for reflection, peaceful and subtle. It's a ballet of shapes, yet without leaps and pirouettes. Hexagonal flagstones and varied rectangles just as they are, a wordless reminder of the simple pleasure of form. I like your composition, and the fretwork of cement that unobtrusively provides strength to the whole, making it possible. Like the bottom people in a human pyramid.
Thank you.

Construction
by Melethia

Comment:
I like how you've provided both image and commentary. The buildings, and the perspective you've established, offer a Mondrian-esque scene. The shapes, like a puzzle being solved, and the bright colors delight the eye. It's also neat how the shadows and reflections are reminders of a surrounding context. The signs on the fence anchor and inform the photograph. Their cautionary, warning nature serve dual purposes. Stay away from the site as it's dangerous. Also, stay away from art, likewise dangerous and problematic. A nice, slippery conjunction.
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Stump
by Mona

Comment:
Fallen trees are one thing, part of the natural cycle, stumps are another. All to often, but far from always, they feel like just the termination of noble life for profit and convenience. My stated position certainly clashes with my training and partial career as a cabinetmaker. How often I was caught up short while working with oak, say, remembering this was once a living tree. So much for my high horse. In any case, this is a poignant image of a ghost in the bright sunshine, coddled by upcoming gererations. It's an object of beauty, streamlined and mysterious. I like how you've made a portrait of it. Grays and green go well together, Nevertheless, stumps are trees' own tombstones.
Thank you.

So Close
by GolferDDS

Comment:
I certainly have to grin, loving dogs and their ways. You have a sweet sense of humor. The point of focus, so rightly on her or his expression, leaves the remainder of a meal, close to us, in soft focus. This generalizes the object of desire and brings out a universal truth about dogs and food. My first thought was, "I'm going to get there first," but I've been beaten out so many times by my dog that this might be a pipe dream.
Thank you.

Barn Wood
by glad2badad

Comment:
A corner of the barn, way in the back, now in the harsh light seems caught in flagrante delicto. It would be ingenuous not to say so. It also raises all sorts of psychological and philosophical questions. It's for the good and elevates the image. I hope I'm not hijacking your photograph on a rocket to fantasy-land. If so, I apologize. It certainly stands as a study of line, texture and tone. But I can't help seeing a commentary on gender travail and intimations of potential violence. Pitchforks plunge into hay. I'm taking it as a superior allegory.
Thank you.

GO!
by PenelopeK

Comment:
Interesting image that's hard to focus on realistically and therefore transforms itself into abstraction. It's busy, even dizzying, with frantic lines, shapes and textures rising like a tidal wave. I find I can settle it down by softening my vision and seeing it as a force field. It's an unusual sensation that induces a sense of being both energized and exhausted. It's op art wrought of everyday objects, and quite creative. My wife, who taught math, just wandered by and said, "Oh, I like that. It's very mathematical." Also, to appreciate the title, it does seem like the game of go.
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east whimsy park
by HUETH

Comment:
Is this on the east side of Whimsy? Please tell me there are North, South and West Whimsys as well. This is a photo of tantalization. You've set us up to yearn for entry into this two dimensional world, introducing tension into what should be a placid locale. I like being playfully torn between desire and the inability to partake. Notice "playfully." The figures in the window seem to beckon us within. It's adroitly framed on the right with the advent of a now, by comparison, boring world. The black and white presentation is interesting because it feels like the building and its surrounds are, subsequently, emotionally in color.
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Birdwatchers (aka Flow Like The Wind)
by pointandshoot

Comment:
Gonna take it on faith that these are, in fact, birdwatchers. I like this technique of abstraction that makes terrestrial star trails, especially the sparser wisps atop it all. After some consideration the image resolved itself into lips with three jagged teeth. Now I was fascinated. This goes to show that food for the imagination can be nutritious. There's a satisfaction in coming to terms with a mystery, yet a good case can also be made for lettilng it remain as such.
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Negative Space People Watching
by JulietNN

Comment:
Centered subjects need heft to pull off flouting photographic gospel. I feel your image succeeds because this vulture is iconically stylized, forceful and confident. It has an almost Egyptian majesty, coolly appraising the parade, knowing that we all eventually rerturn to him, or her. That see through nasal cavity is a tiny jewel, set as it is with the sky. The dead branch perch is perfect. Fine command of negative space.
Thank you.