Let us in!
by dragonlady

Comment:
Very Cute.

Kimmel Curves and Lines II
by banmorn

Comment:
The building is so well abstracted in this shot that in the thumbnail view, one wonders how those interesting lines were constructed. I love the textures and the colors as well as the strong rhythm.

Frost
by timmi

Comment:
Or, Italian Ice.

Pretty, simple, effective. I like this very much.

Full Faced
by Kylie

Comment:
It;s a very unexpected point of view; and I love it. It captures the glossy purple paint and the shiny chrome really well.

Mystic Forest
by Chiqui

Comment:
Great shot.

Over the Royal Staircase
by Chiqui

Comment:
I like the shot very much. I like the warmth of the light and the warmth of the color in the walls. The building is a gem. And the photo is perfectly exposed. The strong perspective produced by a short focal length is fine with me.

Centering did not bother me when I first looked at the shot, and after looking at the shot carefully I have to ask whether the windows on the left and right sides of the building are perfect mirror images of each other, for the placement of the camera by every other measure I can find appears to be in the center of the space.

Word Processor
by Chiqui

Comment:
Echoes of Thackery via Barry Lyndon? The candllight evokes that movie. This creates an certain irony since Kubrick bought a special satellite lens from NASA to do the candelit shots... But we have veered way far off course.

I like this shot very much. I wonder whether you considered trying to fool us into thinking that all the light came from the candle. While I expect that the shot would be impossible to execute if this were actually the case, I find the artificial light with its stronger white and colder spectrum to break the magic spell set by the candle, pen, and paper. I like the fact that we see the pen, but the lone bit of finger seems cut at an awkward place.

This is a good shot and its good to see it finished well.

Rendezvous at Rockwell's
by Marjo

Comment:
Not to pick a fight, but your score was well above the middle of the pack, and you got a solid 5. That's a very respectable place to be in this crowd. People have very different expectations and tastes. I love the colored light on water. And I like the choice of twilight, while the sky still has some deep purple coloring. And generally I like the balance of light and dark spaces in the photo.

I usually prefer tighter compositions: The building on the right adds nothing but ugly light to the photo, IMHO. But I understand the problems involved in removing it: does one crop out the streetlight or does that light occupy the corner of the shot? Which raises the question about whether there would have been a good spot some twenty or thirty feet to the right that would eliminate this problem. I like the building with the curved surface and think it adds to the photo. The building behind Rockwells seems to distract. And I find some of the front surfaces of Rockwells too brightly or unevenly lit. Finally, that dead band of space between the lit buildings and the reflections feels wasted. (Come to think of it, cropping would have worsened this problem considerably....) I understand that most of these things are ones over which you have little control.

Did you consider just photographing the reflections? I think they are the great strength of the photo.

Your shots in the dark are inspiring me to break out the tripod and start working on some of my own.

Gasoline
by Gringo

Comment:
It's a really super shot. It takes quite an accomplished eye to see the photographic possibilities in the ordinary. Mist and water and clouds and cows, and shiny things and rocks and photogenic people are easy subjects. Gasoline stations, I think, are more difficult.

As for placement, this has got to be a tough category. I'd encourage you to consider your success in terms of your score which is really high. Take more shots of mundane things and make them beautiful! What could be a more powerful way to beautify the world than to transform caterpillars into butterflies?

Cloudy Corners
by Gringo

Comment:
Super. A shot not to be mist!