Taking a break
by Jean

Comment:
Terrific colors, great picture. This is my third favorite!!! What an interesting scene - it makes me want to plaay detective - are those fish on the table? Poisson means fish, right? and that is a picture of a squid. Is it a fish market? the door is closed and barred. is it a window that props open to make a shop? The man is great but the setting makes him wonderful. He is all in shades of browns. His room is all bright colors. It makes him stand out in sort of a reverse way. Nice lines in the picture, I like the horizontals of the wall boards, the diaconals of the floor boards and bench. The angles of hs legs are mirrored, sort of, but the legs of the stool. His weight in perfeclty placed in the lower left of the photo, it grounds the image and balances the clutter of the rest of the scene.

Watching the world go by
by robsmith

Comment:
ahhh... at last a photo that I really like. Now I am done witht he voting I can say that this is my second favorite picture. I love it all. I love the sunset colors that are accented perfectly with the blue. I love that the chairs are blue and the ocean is pink. I love the haze on the ater. I love love love the contrasting patterns: the curly fence, the choppy water the diagonal boards, the striped chairs. I like that the two people are looking at eachother, rather than out at the view, it makes the picture more intimate. I likw how all the leading lines point towards the center, drawing the viewer back in. the slanted deck seems to point left to the chairs, the shadows point towards the chairs, the blue strpipes point in, In fact, everything points towards the bag between the people making me wonder whether they are elderly travelers, where they are and where they are going next - tells an open ended story. I like that the picture is divided into horizontal thirds with most of the interest in the center third and the top and bottom playing supporting roles. I like how the boats are framed perfectly inside the spaces created by the fence. I like the feel of the warm colors, but that the people seem to ne wearing coats, a nice contrast of temperature that subtly backs up the temperature contrast of the soft pinks and the bright blue. lovely, just lovely. 10

Forgotten Beauty
by Sonifo

Comment:
This is my favorite, and not just because it has no cats in it. It has a great feeling of calm, the colors are wonderful the graininess adds to the oriental mediative feel, The composition is well crafted, I especially like the leading line of the flowere stem which takes me back and forth from the light on the flower to the mysterious light that seems to be coming from inside the vase. the rogh vase on the right adds some weight to the image and seems to keep the flower from tipping over. Lovely 10

Digging In This Termite Mound Is Hard Work
by RHoldenSr

Comment:
This fellow made me laugh out loud - a nice break from cats - 8

Father and Son
by Stewan

Comment:
Marine?

Motionless
by rheard

Comment:
kinda dark on my monitor -

Trip Back in Time
by blemt

Comment:
whoa- wait a sec, this picture was in my top ten favorites. It is a powerful image! ANd technicall excellent. Why is it way down here??? A victim of narrow minded challenge defnition? Maybe her father served on the boat, maybe he was out at sea when she was born. Who can say it's not nostalgic. You were robbed!

Ole' De Soto
by briphoto

Comment:
oh gosh - we had one of those - was torquoise and white and had a bees nest in the back seat. oh nostalgia

Freedom of Choice
by DougPaz

Comment:
ooohhh finally an nice photo to go with all the nice sentiments in this challenge - my favorite so far!

Freedom of Thought - giving it a chance
by jjbeguin

Comment:
great sentiment-