The beach
by crisf

Comment:
What an unusual landscape image - almost abstract in it's lack of sky, unusual viewpoint and minimal colours and yet immediately recognisable at the same time. Really make you focus on the limited subjects included - the lone life ring on it's pole, the converging and criss-crossing footprints in the depression, the darker areas where the sand is presumably more water-logged...

Pastoral Peace
by Fromac

Comment:
One of my favourite 7 images. Really like the vibrant colour, especially the lime green and bright blue, though these two colours only sing out because of the white and dark green/ black of the clouds and woods. Composition is just perfect with the low, low horizon and the huge expanse of sky, with the centred woods and the mainly low sitting clouds with just one lonely one at the top. Just wonderful.

sapiens habitat
by crayon

Comment:
One of my favourite 7 images. An intriguing portrait of a little corner that probably doesn't get a second glance from most. The composition with the long leading lines to the door at the end works well. So too does the high contrast black and white conversion. But what I really love are the glimpses into the lives of those who live here, not by showing us the people, but by showing us a few of their personal items. Really fascinating.

Driving in the rain
by Tlemetry

Comment:
One of my favourite 7 images. Such a perfect capture of a scene so many of us see so very often. Really like the curved edge between where the windscreen wiper reaches and where it doesn't. The low horizon/ expanse of cloudy sky works very well.

Passageway into Bavaria
by Cutter

Comment:
One of my favourite 7 images. I really like the way that both foreground building interior and backdrop of beautiful historical city and hilly woodlands are of interest. It's not often that the framing itself holds such interest and yet doesn't compete with/ lessen the impact of the background. My only negative is the strong halos around the inner edges of the windows which presumably come from whichever technique you've used to balance exposure of foreground and background.

My neighborhood, my land
by zane1

Comment:
One of my favourite 7 in this challenge. A simple and common scene rendered striking by strong composition and really lovely high contrast black and white conversion.

As I walked out one morning
by pineapple

Comment:
One of my favourite 7 images. Great urban landscape. Love the framing and the different layers - foreground arch, nearest building, the road and pavement (sidewalk) with cars and people, buildings further back and then the cityscape fading into the mists of distance. Black and white fits perfectly and really brings out the geometry.

Greetings from the Floor of Palo Duro Canyon
by scarbrd

Comment:
One of my top 7 images. I really like the texture and detail in that wonderful gnarled and weather-worn wood. The backdrop of similarly weather-worn rock works well, with the burnished copper colours of both. Deep blue sky and touches of green offset that orange well. And then there's the perfectly posed little critter that just makes the perfect focal point and breaks up the orange too. Lovely.

The Captain
by bobgaither

Comment:
A pretty scene but not quite as strong an image - the foreground grass at the bottom left is too much in shadow for it to contribute anything more than just a sense of a dark smear. The lighting seems quite flat too - perhaps the early morning or late evening light would be more striking?

Sage and Sand
by Kivet

Comment:
What a contrast between that arid earth and the rich blue of the sky! Unfortunately, for me, the lower half of the image is lacking a focal point or something to hold my interest - whether that's a tree or person or building or just an unusual curve of hills. The placement of the horizon is also very centred making it even more static a composition.