Sides
by Melethia

Comment:
The best part of this is how the progression of windows & doors on her side is echoed by the line of architectural details low on the columns on his side. It makes a strange little unspoken dialogue between the two people. You know, like the Duelling Banjos song from Deliverance.

Brickline
by Melethia

Comment:
Yes indeed! First photo I've looked at today, and what a great start it is. It's a beautifully balanced image.

On his own
by Melethia

Comment:
I didn't give it a 3!!!!

the tree
by kdogg628

Comment:
I think this is really quite lovely. It's not the flashiest shot here, very quiet and composed (pun intended), but certainly not diminished by any of that understatement. The pairing of the tree with the bench is very thoughtful, and the photograph works so much better with the bench empty. Just imagine a person sitting there ... the photograph would no longer be about the tree, whereas this way it unequivocally is; the bench is just a sidekick, but a sidekick that lends the tree both scale and purpose. I had it at 7 until it slowly dawned on me how very good it is, so now it's 9. Thanks for thinking.

Last one of it's kind
by Giorgio

Comment:
Very fine photograph. What's so very good about it is that you knew that the tree could not, should not, be made into a 'hero' in this photograph. It's nearly buried here, nearly overwhelmed, and that's the majesty of it ... that it has insisted on remaining a tree, and a proper one, even against this level of affront. The birds appreciate it, and so did you. Me too. 10

Madison Avenue Tree
by PennyStreet

Comment:
The most interesting in the challenge just because of the inspired juxtaposition. 10.

Mapletree Illumination
by Geee

Comment:
One of the best uses I've seen of this kind of vignette effect. It seems to understand the tree, and because of it, so do I. 8.

Weathering Heights
by Caravela

Comment:
It's such an interesting shot that I will forgive you the groan-inducing pun of a title. The juxtaposition of the deeply fissured rocks with the softer bucolic mid-ground is very good, and of course the tree is reduced to an uncertain limpet here. 7.

He's wearing a Beret
by pawdrix

Comment:
OK, that settles it. I am getting a beret. I'd always thought that every chapeau has its moment; its particular 'age':

In infancy, the bonnet
In adolescence, the sports helmet
In extended adolescence, the baseball cap
In respectable maturity, the fedora
In disreputable maturity, the beret

I had been swanning about in a fedora, waiting for my beret moment to arrive.
Alas, as is increasingly the case with so many things in life, I appear to be past it.

I'm getting a beret.

Message edited by author 2009-01-31 20:59:48.

Riding Off......
by Germaine

Comment:
A fantastic month, G. This one actually looks more like Colleen's work than yours, but as I'm a fan of you both, I'm happy either way.