The House that Floats - Complete with Satellite TV and 3 Barking Dogs
by bryanbrazil

Comment:
Now that's a fun house! The house may be surreal; the photo, I think, isn't.

Urban Escher
by jdannels

Comment:
Perhaps it would be a tiny bit more convincing if it had been entitled 'handrail.' It's an interesting photo of an interesting place. Except for the low angle, there is not much hint of the surreal.

Seeing is believing
by eschmutt

Comment:
I love this twist on the Dali portrait. Everything is perfect except the eyes. And in a portrait, even a spoof of a surrealistic painting, the eyes are everything.

Whimsy In Color
by birdyblue

Comment:
I love the bright color palette. This is a cheery, happy, bright, upbeat, straighforward photo with nothing lurking beneath the surface. I can find nothing that connects it with the challenge.

A new breed
by RedOak

Comment:
Definitely in the challenge. A little politically subversive, perhaps? The strong lighting is both its strong point and its weakness. It flatters the background; I love the curtain. But it both forces blown highlights in all the white materials and huge flat areas of blackness in the dark leather and clothing. Without these flaws, I think this could be a solid contender for a top spot.

Spectre
by Hrutsen

Comment:
This is a lot closer to surrealism than most of the photos in this competition got. I like that a graveyard is the backdrop. And I notice that you've placed a brightly lit cross on one of the four 'power spots' of the photo to echo or balance the placement of the subject' s 'face.' I'm afraid that I find the extraeneous elements of the phot really distracting: the chain lin fence, the metal rail fece, and the two giant black stone obelisks sprouting from the phantasm's shoulder. Finally, this is such a cheery and brightly lit day that the whole 'phantasm' idea seems, IMO, ridiculous.

Escapades at Night
by Heavy

Comment:
Don't get 'Joe Camel' but I like the flying silver lizard.

Out for a Cruise
by biggood53

Comment:
Wow! I love the color and the texture in the photo. And I like the world turned upside down. I like how the vertical posts and horizontal rails squiggle in ways reminiscent of some in Dali paintings. While the photo does not exactly fit in the surrealistic straightjacket I've imposed on most photos, I actually like this enough to rate it well.

Rene Magritte's "The Son of Man" Revisited
by drgsoell

Comment:
I'm a bit surprised that I've not seen 22 entries like this; it's the 'obvious' knockoff choice. I've looked at much of the challenge so far and this is the first. So you get extra points for copying Magritte and going him one better by using a female as the model.

Winter Wonderland
by justin_hewlett

Comment:
Occasionally I am inclined to give people the benefit of the doubt. But this photo is so perfect for last week's Ansel Adam's challange and so irrellevant to this one, I must score it low. The only thing 'surreal' about it is that it appears here. It is a pretty photo and would score reasonably well in some other challenge.