Ivory Netsuke on Old Lace
by JuliBoc

Comment:
I didn't get to vote on this one. It's a lovely picture and it's under-rated in the voting. Guess the lace should have been whiter. Could have put it on a glass table and back-lit it? I suspect conspiracy against novices is at the heart of this disgracefully discriminatory voting though. Take heart - it is very unlikely that we will get any greener or suck any more :) Great shot.

White Spiral
by noraneko

Comment:
There's a sort of genre to white (pale) on white photographs, in which the foreground object needs to be sharp and the background needs to be clean. (My entry doesn't comply with any of this, NB). This gets very close to it. I'd agree with a few comments that would have the shell a bit sharper, etc, etc, but the subject and composition are really good. I gave it 7.

Gilded
by Melethia

Comment:
This is a terrific photograph of a terrific subject. 5.8 isn't to be sniffed at, but I'd say it was worth more.

Well sucked!

softly
by silverfoxx

Comment:
The undefined hinterland between weird and not weird is not to be sniffed at. If you want votes at dpc, then you should probably go for the simplest and most obvious 'message', as it should get home to the most. Those that are less easy to define may be more disquieting. Yer pays yer mmoney and yer takes yer choice?
Congratulations on this one, anyway.

Rain in Paris
by pmotta

Comment:
Very Paris-atmospheric, although the diagonal lines of the glass pyramid are more incidental background than "a diagonal axis as the major compositional thrust of your image". Never mind, Henri Cartier-Bresson lives! 8

Take Off
by Gatorguy

Comment:
Kind of a cliché picture, but it nails the challenge. 8

Goose Whisperer
by aberration

Comment:
Nice candid - I can't decide if it's sad (lonely), but the possibility adds a dimension. 6

Canary Wharf
by AlexSaberi

Comment:
Neat, 6

Black Hole
by trumpetwalrus

Comment:
Love the picture, but I'm having trouble seeing the "diagonal axis as the major compositional thrust of your image", or much else, I suppose . . .

Walking On Air
by h2

Comment:
Very graphic, nice - 7