The Bridge
by jjbeguin

Comment:
Love the stretched parallel lines of the handrail shadows and the inclusion of the legs and feet only of the pedestrians adds a focal point without moving focus from the shadows to the people.

Unbent Shadow
by GolferDDS

Comment:
What a clever use of shadow! Rather striking!

without a brush
by timmi

Comment:
What an interesting texture - it's like shadow puppetry! Is that just me or is the orange surface between camera and objects? Looks great!

untitled
by bamaster

Comment:
Wonderful textures in the paint - and a great shape and shadow. Seems a bit "shiny" to the left - can't quite describe the effect but I'm not keen on it. Like the overall composition, though would shave a small touch off the left.

remnant
by mcmurma

Comment:
Beautiful - a wonderful portrait of a fallen leaf - I like the composition, the shape and shadows, the angle within the frame, the warm black and white tone. An absolutely wonderful entry, one of my favourites in this challenge.

Walkin' A Tightrope With A Heavy Load
by ScottK

Comment:
I find the border particularly unpleasant to the extent that it does lessen my enjoyment of the image.
Ignoring it for the moment I like the image quite a lot - the simplicity and the studio rather than natural background works well. In terms of composition I'd like a touch more space above and less below.

Natures Grace
by melking

Comment:
A beautiful leaf and great composition.
My two suggestions would be:
The leaf is so uniform in colour that this macro treatment doesn't bring out as much interesting detail as it might - I wonder if a leaf with more variations of orange, yellow and even maroon might be more interesting?
The water looks a little messy - would it have been possible to dry the leaf off and then add a few droplets manually that retained their droplet shape?
You may have been striving for a more natural feeling of wetness of course, in which case my suggestion is of no interest.

Grace On Her Knees
by glimpses

Comment:
Has a Monet quality to the background. A little too static in composition but an interesting image.

Natural fractal
by rhipster

Comment:
Beautifully done, the low DOF on the background really allows one to concentrate on the warmth of the greens and see their variety without being distracted by harsh shapes. The leaf itself is beautiful (I assume it's one of those artificial ones sold by decoration stores?) and the composition of the overall image works very well with the diagonal of the stem pushing out from one of the corners.

Bathing beauty
by jjbeguin

Comment:
What an unusual viewpoint and choice of what to include! I like it! Not sure about the high contrast - is the image posterised? Do like the inclusion of the windows at top right.