Enter Sandman
by colorcarnival

Comment:
The kid is looking in the wrong place. I like how the light is controlled here. But, still, the photo doesn't really talk to me.

Buffalo, NY Finally Sees Winter's Entrance (after unseasonably long high temps.)
by dsterner

Comment:
I sense there was a desire to come up with a beautiful photo, a nice landscape covered in snow. But then the title is sounds like a journalistic caption. These two things hurt each other. And none of them helps make the photo meet the challenge. Not that I care much about meeting the challenge, but I feel that you do.

And, yes, I think the house hidden there in the centre of the photo could add so much, but you decided not to include it, by hiding it behind the trees.

gateway to academia
by Mark

Comment:
I wish there were people on this shot. This way, it's just a cold photo of some pillars standing there. And, how am I supposed to know that this is the gateway to academia?

sky entrance
by Lore

Comment:
It looks like the point of the photo is the sky. And the window could play a secondary role, just as a frame. But, this frame hurts. And I think it hurts because it looks like you didn't want the house in the left in the frame. This way you got your frame tilted, which I don't think is a good thing.

Instead, moving a bit further and including a bigger part of the window and the house might improve the photo; but then, it wouldn't be sky entrance, but window exit.

I guess I'm trying to tell you that the beautiful colours of the sky and the beautiful clouds you wanted to show to me, didn't reach me. The other things did. I guess.

Lunch at the recording studio
by Federico

Comment:
A wonderful idea, but I don't really like the light here. The left side, especially the top left side is to bright compared with the right side. I'd prefer a complete one-sided lightning, or a uniform one. This way, it looks like a half-baked realization of a well thought idea.

He Who Holds the Key Gains Entrance to My Heart
by SquishyB

Comment:
How am I to see your intension of this photo, expressed by the title, without reading the title? I just see some scattered old keys, which can be interesting subject by itself, if photographed properly. And the postprocessing leaves to be desired.

Desperate Urge
by h2

Comment:
So simple, so beautiful. Just a remark on the light on the top half of the knob: I wish the color/lightning was the same everywhere.

HELL or HEAVEN ?
by facesastheycome

Comment:
I love the grain, the black and white, the shadows, the darkness...a beautiful photo.

The Bank
by GeneralE

Comment:
I think a shot like this begs for symmetry, and this shot obviously lacks it. I also think that the light isn't good. I guess a shot early in the morning or late in the evening, when the light is diffused and with a warm cast, might improve the lightning, that is, the darkness of the gate and the whiteness of the pillars wouldn't be so "angry" at each other.

Seeing the reflection on the glass of the door, I think you could have made a good photo just by taking a shot of the gate, neglecting the pillars. What I'm trying to say is that there are so many elements here competing for attention: the gate, which is supposed to be the main subject of the photo, I guess, the pillars, the ceiling with the hanging lamp or whatever you call that thing. So, compositionally, I tend to think that this photo wasn't thought out at all.

Grand Entrance
by hanae

Comment:
I think you had a chance of taking a great shot from the reflection in the pond. That would've been much more interesting than this average shot.