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.

The Pratice Issue
by graphicfunk

Comment:
I very much like the play this makes on the concept; not only have we the metronome, which is a purely mechanical device, but we have the idea of the musician practicing the mechanics of his craft. I'd quibble with the cropping left (needs a tad more space) and fore (I don't want to lose the tiny bit of the metronome cover that's missing).

Mechanical lock gates
by geewhy

Comment:
This is really, really sweet, the tonalities are so pure, the composition is so locked-in, the flow of the water is so palpable. I appreciate also that this one is outside the box, not just one more of the same thing. There's a LOT of gears, sprokets, and clocks in this challenge...

Mechanic mobile... in perpetuum
by alithenake

Comment:
Extraordianry image, if a trifle loud for my tastes.