Painted Pond
by NovaTiger

Comment:
Sometimes turning up the saturation is the right thing to do. I like the strong contrasting colors - green and blue. And I like the contrasting textures.

Message edited by author 2005-02-20 08:43:24.

Sand Path
by s4nd3r99

Comment:
Nice texture and rhythm.

Stormy
by Zoomdak

Comment:
One wonders how many good shots this beach has left in it. But I guess Monet spent the last half his life painting his garden at Giverny. (And years later it still looks good.)

Great shot.

Moon reflection
by nico_blue

Comment:
Shock and awe. I bet you need a long lens to get this view of the moon. Or is it highly cropped? But wait, how did you do the lighting? The moon cannot be lit like this at sunset, I think. So the shot must be a composite. The waves in the water argue against it, but I think they could be produced during editing. Same for the color.

Cropped or not, natural or manmade, either way the image has punch.

Tourists
by heida

Comment:
Normally, photos of hauntingly beautiful places are ruined by the presence of people. There must be a million shots one could take of this scene where the shot would be better without people than with them. But that's not the case here. It's a million to one shot! WOW.

He is mine
by vasilkovaya

Comment:
I'm not sure the title serves the photo well. In my first look at the photo I was slightly puzzled at the half a face. Then I realized that the choice was ideal and inspired. The photo is not at all about this man. It is about this girl's relationship to him - what she feels about him. He only exists in the photo to inform us of the object of her affection. I think this is perfectly communicated by the way the subject is in crisp focus and is perfectly lit, while her subject of attention is the man. The warmth of feeling here is powerful.

The photo has the emotional strength of a great candid and the technical strength of a posed or composed shot. Excellent.

Canadian Peace Tower
by clictacamera

Comment:
This one creeps up on you. It's not striking or crisp, but the low contrast and literal dullness of the photo manages to convey the dullness of the day. I like it that you have to do a bit of work to see the tower. There's something about the random placement of lighting standards that really disturbs the serenity of the setting and I think it detracts from the photo. But if this photo had been taken by one of the great photographers of all time, this might be seen as a kind of statement about how our best intentioned and best executed attempts to control and improve our environment sometimes take an aesthetic toll.

too-cold-nobody-out.jpg
by clictacamera

Comment:
Brr! it really evokes the chill of winter. I like the strong lines going to a vanishing point, the gnarled trees, and the ironic sign. The photo has an unpolished look and feel to it, but I've spent a couple hours looking at spit and polish and sometimes the honesty of a competently done, not overthought shot that is from the heart is refeshing.

Keep on taking photos. There's a lot of great stuff to see at this site, but sometimes the ratings promote transient tastes over lasting substance.

wrench
by heida

Comment:
I just took a look at the tools competition, and my impression is that many of the tools in the top twenty or thirty are competently and prettily photographed but lack 'soul.' They lack some context that connects them with human activity - curiously, even some of the ones that are in use. But this photo somehow evokes that activity. I expect it is patina of rust on the wrench and the work surface on which it lies. It is also the mixture of blue and orange light that one might find in one of those old industrial buildings built in the early twentieth century with lines and lines of rooftop windows facing north..

I am interested in how it works. The focal plane is near the bottom of the photo, but this works because the lines of the out-of focus-handle lead us there. I love it.

Come back!
by kiwiness

Comment:
The iridescent iris grabs me in this one, being the point in the photo that has the most crisp focus and the most contrasty detail. I love the bokeh, the strong lighting, and the fact that the eye in question is in the dead center of the photograph. I must compliment you on finding expressive models and making them look their best.