Cat Trax
by bryanbrazil

Comment:
Lovely, massive feel to this, marred by an awkward framing of the key element. we need to see, at least, all of the rear rotor, and arguable some of the track above it.

Simple Machines
by troylox

Comment:
Conceptually pleasing. It would rank higher if it had the critical sharpness it's just begging for, and if the lighting were a little softer. I'd also question the very warm chromatics here. I wonder how it would work if the drivers were cool-ble-steel looking and the rest a more desaturated sepiaesque tone?

Retired
by scrum8

Comment:
extraordinary positive/negative dialogue; first the BG is UP, then the BG is DOWN, it cycles visually. I wish there were better separation between the teeth and the drak BG stripe. A real sleeper of an image.

Prybar
by GeneralE

Comment:
I admire this for the very fundamental take on what it means to be mechanical; a prybar is the original machine, aka "lever". The foreground leaf reall distracts, and I wish the image were more dynamic.

"Hidden Face"
by tfarrell23

Comment:
I really don't see a face here, except maybe a squinting one on the big rock, not really "trhere" for me...

Ent of Fangorn
by scrum8

Comment:
It's a nice face, but the background is way too confusing and cluttered to show the face to best advanhtage.

Liberty & Justice, Great Briton Edition.
by marbo

Comment:
***CRITIQUE CLUB RESPONSE***

There's really not much I can say about this image except "well done!" The score says the rest, and I quite agree it's a top-10 image in the deja vu challenge. I went to the original, and I think this is a fabulous variation on it.

One thing I noticed is that the original is more "linear", where yours has a "zoom-out_ effect, with the zoom popping down to the crossed-bars center of your image. It may not be intentional, but it's a nice subtle metaphor; UK is an island, a focused place so to speak, where USA is a sprawling, linear kind of place. So that's good.

If I had any suggestion for improvement, it might be to try cleaning up the whites a little bit with curves. I'd like to see how this worked witha little more pop int he tonal range. But that's a nit. Good job!

Robt.

TIME IN MOTION
by DDYJR

Comment:
A nice shot. The hot, over-warm "arch" upper left is unfortunately a real eyetrap here.

Hammer and Strings
by sbeaumont

Comment:
Very beautiful. Maybe a hair too yellow. I feel like if the large, diagonal bar were angled so it landed a bit further left, this would be better, but that would level the score (not good) or obscure the posts and soem of the red (not good) so....

Black Beauty
by Albireo

Comment:
This is exceptionally nice. I'd like to see a slightly more agressive tonal range (a little denser in the dark-but-not-black areas), and I'd have been inclined to 'shop out the light rub-marks above the wheel.