Great Moon Heron
by MelonMusketeer

Comment:
Fine storybook-like illustration. The lighting carries the day, bringing the scene to fruition. Yet also, sorry, the vertical alignment of the heron and moon compel me to see the moon as, umm, a giant....

Come in its cold outside
by Bensted

Comment:
Great subject for a square frame. So welcoming. There's a feel of arrival after or during an adventure. The snow and its texture is admirably displayed, seemingly lightly vignetted around the perimeter. Artful.

Kubrick's Foundry
by Parabelle

Comment:
Lovely and delicate image. The colors are beautiful. The lighting suggests that the structure is made of paper. The heavily textured white paint on the door begs to be touched. The dark bottom strip well serves the atmosphere of the scene.

Erica
by lei_73

Comment:
Soft and sympathetic portrait of a beautiful woman. It fills the frame perfectly.

Smoke Shop
by MadMan2k

Comment:
Very pleasing rectilinear composition backed by a burst of filigree tree branches. The building is a forced marriage of discordant textures, but there you have it -- no excuses, and it shakes one's visual complacency. I also like how the newly pointed portions of the stonework appear to be lit by patches of sunlight.

at home
by tvsometime

Comment:
I like this very much. It's well-composed. The varied perpendiculars structure the image right into the square format; yet, there are some modest curves, also, to soften the effect (the wire, the reflected tree, the crook in the drain pipe). Also, it plays with dimension. It's mainly two-dimensional, but then there are the modestly raised drainage pipes, wire and window frame. The window itself busts loose by hinting at the inside beyond the coyly parted curtains and at the surrounding wide world suggested by the reflection of the rooftop and tree. So much from apparently so little.

Old Boy
by RKT

Comment:
Elegant portrait.

Follow the Orange to the Blue
by primabarbara

Comment:
Wonderfully stylized yet fully realistic sci-fi image with a great choice of perspective. Uses the square frame quite well.

Teen
by the99

Comment:
Imaginatively handled intimate portrait that looks in part like a woodcut. If not offered to us by the photographer, I'd almost feel like I were intruding. Sensitive and charming.

Contemplation
by MAK

Comment:
Marvelous study of overwhelming depth. Beautifully sits in the frame. It reminds one of the flower sermon.