I'm Shocked, Simply SHOCKED!
by GeneralE

Comment:
I take it the face is NOT the man in the moon, but the 3 circles? If so, it's not really "facing off" for me. The image usffers from oversharpening on the moon, I think. The haloing is not good here. But it's an appealing image regardless.

Santa and friends (only cropped and rotated)
by Cam

Comment:
This one seems to work better in the thumbnail size, actually. Still, it sort of grows on me. Some work with curves or levels would perk it up a lot.

Pasta by hand
by pupup33

Comment:
This is clean work, but nothing sets it apart really. one thing, incidentally, that's totally wrong is the use of dried, commercial pasta as a prop. The tomato, while making for a lovely reflection, is exceeding arbitrary also. If you'd shot this with ribbons of fresh pasta, I'd have bumped it up a point. Alaso, cropping is too tight all sides but right, IMO.

The mechanics of creating life...a machine-like process.
by rmtm333

Comment:
I am sure there are going to be howls that there is nothing "mechanical" about this image. I am sure the photographer has reasoned backwards and decided that the entire process of creating life is fundamentally mechanical; that's what his title implies. It's an interesting position to take, although I'd argue that "biological processes" may result in "mechanical" objects, but the process is still biological. Regardless, I appreciate the out-of-the-bix thinking here; sheer chutzpah.

As for the image itself? It's nice, but nothing special, pretty standard backlit-pregnant-woman shot.

Linked
by carotop111

Comment:
This works way better as thumbnail, where it's quite striking. Suffers only from lack of sharpness on chain, anmd a little blocking of the dark areas.

Trustworthy
by glad2badad

Comment:
I was surprised to see so few hand cutting tools. This is quite appealing, but the tight foreground cropping is unfortunate. you have plenty of extra space up top, doing nothing much.

Loud gears
by bole

Comment:
very tich tonalities and lighting. The cropping is cojunter-intuitive to me; that tab on the right doesn't contribute much, the machinery on the left is too truncated. I'd liek to see the rear key rotated a tad so it picks up a little more light.

A simple tap.
by docpjv

Comment:
I wish it had more of a subject/ground dichotomy, the image is not resolving itself visually I think.

The Unseen Hand
by Skip

Comment:
Very appealing colors, but I can't pull any sense of order out of this chaos; what am i suppsoed to be looking AT?

A New Day
by photom

Comment:
needs sharpness and white balance work, to my eye.N icely composed, though.