Fountain of Youth
by markwiley

Comment:
Crown Fountain--very nice! I would have considered cropping off the top portion, leaving a square image with the children filling the frame. Though the top part does add context and is interesting too.

Honey
by vlado

Comment:
Beautiful minimalism.

Piano Lesson
by sfalice

Comment:
As a musician, I find the misalignment of the notes vertically and odd note grouping disconcerting. And why is the music on the left upside down relative to that on the right? Image-wise it's nice, good rule-of-thirds composition (pun not intended!), though the white balance seems slightly off: may as well go to B/W.

Music Break
by clickodak

Comment:
Nightmare Before Christmas! Nice bw image with an effective vignette.

insomnia
by mariuca

Comment:
My top pick for the challenge (9). Not sure how I would have improved on it, maybe try to get the right half as sharp as the left. Though in retrospect, there's an odd blurry triangular wedge on the right. Sorry, I would have bumped you down a point or two if I had noticed that when I was voting (but I didn't--yay!). Yup, certainly some fishy stuff going on in the far right upper 2/3s.

pure joy
by Tiberius

Comment:
This lifts my spirits. Thank you.

Hosta
by tnun

Comment:
Congrats on your long-awaited first ribbon! Lovely inverted image--could have worked well in inverted BW too I think, though color works very well here. Bravo!!!

bubbles
by LevT

Comment:
Brilliant shot! I've lived in PB for 13 years and have yet to come close to shooting something as delightfully engaging as this, here or anywhere. Bravo!

Message edited by author 2014-02-24 23:44:29.

Last Night I Left the Troubled Earth Behind
by vawendy

Comment:
I would have cropped more off the top, but I still love this, how the wing melts in with the clouds. Oldie but goodie. :-)

Reflecting on the Past
by MAK

Comment:
I might have rotated it a hair counter-clockwise, but the BW processing is spot on, and the composition is masterful. Bravo. 9