He is mine
by vasilkovaya

Comment:
This is extremely sweet and effective. I suspect it won't do as well as I think it ought to, but I'd be proud of it if it were mine. the focus plane is spot-on, the cropping of the man's face is wonderful. The vertical component of the oof background, being slightly skewed, is a little off-putting to me. I'd have tried a hair more blur there, perhaps...

Seneca Lake Sunset
by ClickNSee

Comment:
Very eeire, painterly rendering. There's an overall greenish hue that I find slightly off, and it's losing a hair too much detail to the left for my tastes. Just a whisper of dodging on the left, and a selection at the forward treeline to drop some green out of the BG would do wonders for me I think. Not much, just a little...

Limeburners Lagoon, Australia
by Anjella

Comment:
While I realize the horizon is level, this has a sense of being tilted clockwise just a little bit. This frequently happens with this sort of shot, and it's disconterting. It has also been oversharpened, to my eye, or if this is how it came from the camera it could use a tad of softening. A very nice image regardless.

camera obscura
by visaksen

Comment:
Beautifully seen image. Totally eerie. The lit window lower center makes the picture. Thumbs up!

Sky Slide
by qmdi

Comment:
Wonderful image, another one of my 10's and a well-deserved ribbon. I used to photograph for Richard Meier, back in the day... I love this shot.

Robt.

Brooklyn Bridge
by JPR

Comment:
Very well-deserved first place. Kudos to the voters for seeing this. I gave it a 10 myself.

Robt.

Let Us Be Humans And Not Only Sex Objects, Please
by Mona

Comment:
"Photograph human beings engaged in normal human activity" This is not a human being, it is not in an activity, it is a sculpture...

Twisted
by soup

Comment:
Definitely a face here, sorry.

The Invisible Man (1933)
by xtabintun

Comment:
"Photograph human beings engaged in normal human activity" Where is the human being, or the activity? Amusing but not meeting the challenge by my definition.

Fishing at Dusk
by primus76

Comment:
For me, a silhouette with a nose is a face....