beauty of halloween
by docpjv

Comment:
A good picture, but I don't see the association with Halloween...? Her left cheek is a but overexposed, perhaps.

Purple Mountains Majesty
by Loki

Comment:
Good colors and sharpness in the sky. The haze in the distance is pretty cool too.

Brass
by cris

Comment:
Nice composition. Only thing I don't like is that it looks a little oversharpened and noisy.

10 Seconds to Go - Home Time
by saintnicholas_25

Comment:
Oh, man! This is the most underrated image in the challenge!! 4.686?! That's an outrage. The beautiful subtle shading and smooth, brilliant colors are fantastic.

I can see only two (bogus, IMO) reasons mentioned in the comments this could deserve to finish less than 6.0 (I gave it a 9, I only very rarely give out 10s):
1) it's less than the maximum allowable size
2) the image doesn't SCREAM 'school' to some people apparently

I have to say that it's the best looking 17 KB image I've seen here. :) That said, you may have done a lot better with a image 640px wide, and use all the 150 KB you are allowed. I thought this was fine at this size, but obviously some people got hung up on this point.

School Scraps
by RebAl

Comment:
Oh man, you got ripped off! This is so much more beautiful than the ribbon winners, I can't begin to say how much better this is!

This is still the first place winner in my mind. :)

Breaking Point
by aznym

Comment:
Fantastic image! My pick for #3!

10 Seconds to Go - Home Time
by saintnicholas_25

Comment:
Super smooth. Great color scheme! I love it. My pick for #2.

School Scraps
by RebAl

Comment:
I love the color contrast of the warm colored shavings to the cool colored paper!! Definitely my pick for #1!!

"Homework Sucks"
by ladpupmoe

Comment:
Cute picture. Good composition. But the lighting is bad. More even, natural lighting would be better.

Rotunda Lawn (University Of Virginia)
by birdyblue

Comment:
Good color but it's a little unsharp.