Bonfire 2002: Texas Aggies Remember 1999 Collapse
by Froober

Comment:
You can't go wrong with a fire pic for PJ, and I like the silhouettes you've made here. Great catch.

A City United: Public Transportation Success Story
by magnetic9999

Comment:
I been caught shootin' man. Looks a little oversharp from where I sit, and could use just a touch of + gamma. Then again, I like the way the guy's face looms out of the blackness in his hood. Nicely done.

Council sells 1532 defence tower (local frontpage)
by Azrifel

Comment:
More illustrative than journalistic, but stunning. HIgh marks.

Roadside Remembrance
by myqyl

Comment:
I'm not sure the selective color was necessary here, as there isn't much to draw attention away from the subject as it is. Composing the image from the other side, to include the long shadows of the cross and candle, mioght have been a good idea.

Mountain Through Trees
by janfries

Comment:
Sometimes framing a scenic image this way can work, but more attention needs to be paid to the placement of the frame. I find the leaves at center very intrusive. Additionally, including the black tree greatly reduced the ammount of contrast available to the rest of the image. I'd have tried for another location where I could get more of the river in the foreground, or gotten closer to the tree to push the frame out to the edges of the image.

Black&Chrome
by vin rigby

Comment:
A natural for B/W. You did a good job on the chrome, and the overall exposure is very good. Only way I can think of to imrove it would be to have it pointing down the road, but that's next week's challenge. Nice job.

Photo-opp Babes
by David Ey

Comment:
Buncha backs - tough to pull off. The inversion makes it interesting, but the underlying photo could be better thought out to begin with.

Magnolia
by elemess

Comment:
Increasing the brightness a little more would give a nicer range of contrast in the flower (at least on my somewhat calibrated monitor). The very center, in particular, would be improved through greater visible detail.

Shofield Ford Covered Bridge
by ClubJuggle

Comment:
Wonderful subject for B/W, and nicely composed, but another day or time of day when you could have avoided the burnt out sky would be better. Tough when there's only a week.

Lounging Around
by PaulinaRD

Comment:
Good B/W (an all photography, really) is all about light, and the ugliest light known to man (except possibly flourescent) is, for some reason, built into most cameras. It's very hard and directional, which flattens textures, and casts horrid shadows nine times out of ten. You could possibly adjust the gamma (middle gray value) here to improve the range of contrast.