by the pool...
by basia03

Comment:
Very funny. I guess you tried the sunglasses but they did not quite work out? In any case, it's always fun to relax by the pool with one's friends. The pink theme works nicely I find the background - though carefully obscured by close cropping and good control of DOF - to be a little distracting. And I find the wealth of objects to be a little overwhelming.

I think the biggest problem with the photo is that the dog seems to be having much less fun than the photographer. In fact he looks both a little irked by the effort and peeved by the fact that there is not much he can do to get out of it. Or maybe he is just dreaming pensively of that French poodle he met at some other pool party long ago.

Gucci
by muur88

Comment:
I love it! The weird expression, the cheesy Euro-snob glasses and the blurry blue shirt just barely capable of containing the little round pot belly - all these things balance against those golden Gucci letters that for decades have screamed 'we cost more because only rich people can afford buy our stuff.' There is a wonderful concinnity of logic in the elements of this photo; that matches the balance of forms, the contrast of colors, and the balance between stasis and motion.

The Equalizer
by dw_photo

Comment:
Very nicely observed. The composition is inspired. The lighting, though difficult is well handled. Very Nice

Dazzle
by annah

Comment:
This is just exactly what we would expect in this challenge. The shot is crisp, clear, clinical, seductive. It equates affluence and youth in the normal and expected ways. It is perfect in every technical detail. It is the perfect stock photograph for this catagory. (In both respects.) I feel very fortunate that there is at least one such entry in the challenge. And if I were studying to learn how to make a living doing commercial photography or graphic design, I'd wish to see perhaps fifty or a hundred analogous entries. But I'm kind of happy that the challenge has been construed more broadly.

Apologies for ranting in your space. It's a highly polished effort for which you deserve to be proud.

Dreaming of All That Wealth
by loriprophoto

Comment:
One takes huge risks photographing faces in shadow. I like the composition. I especially like the light; and the textures.the wood of the table, the hair and even the wrinkles and pores in the skin are nicely rendered. The shadow on the face seems just a little strong, even though the subject is sleeping.

"Doc's Dock"
by sfarrell23

Comment:
Daring and provocative use of negative space. I love this photo because it is one of the best lessons I've had here in the use of negative space since a string of tiny cow shots several months ago. Nice job.

18th Century Buildings On Aston Martin
by LaSofi

Comment:
Great idea. Good execution. Good Luck

Golden View
by mikala

Comment:
Why does this make me think of that old song in such a subversive way, I wonder? "Ferrarri .. Oh oh oh oh .... Campari oh oh oh oh." That it does earns you an extra point; though I hate the song - it always struck me as having something to do with gratuitous consumption and waste of wealth.

Oh yes, the photo. The way the reflectons underscore the name make the photo. Very understated. Very nice.

The Little House in the Country
by sbeaumont

Comment:
My summer cottage. You've found my summer cottage. And I had just about forgotten about it!

Curious. I've seen so many photos of England in fog and diffuse light that seeing a house like this in direct, undiffused light makes it seem somehow wrong - as if the house and its gardens had some how been transported for the day just to be photographed beneath the blazing north African skies.

The sky seems just a tad too aqua or green. And so do the bricks. Come to think of it, that lovely green hedge - I bet it is that color when the sky is cloudy but i'd not be surprised if it were considerably more yellow in bright light.

Not sure how to make the composition better, but it somehow seems unbalanced. If the photo is about the house, I'd like that to take up more space. If it is about the grounds, I'd like their features to be more pronounced, more distinct.

Eccentric
by ShutterPug

Comment:
There's so much I love about this photo. And there's so much that seems a little odd. That is one cute dog, His expression is perfect. The jewelry is likewise perfect. I love the martini glass, its fluid color, and the fact that an object sits on its edge. There is a graininess and an unsharpness to the photo that greatly detracts. That darn olive strikes me as a problem both for its place at the edge of the photo and for its color - being just wrong to go with ny other colored item in the photo. Perhaps for some symbolic reason I do not understand, only an olive will do. If so then maybe the drink turns to a tawny gold or some other color that works with olive. While I love it that the placement of the olive draws our gaze past the martini glass and completes a kind of triad with the base of the glass and the dog's eyes (or tongue), it just seems like courteous treatment to your major elements not to chop them in half with the photo's edge. Good Luck.