Microscope Glass Slide
by meendee

Comment:
Very nearly spot-on. The composition, the framing, the angle, the depth of field (just narrow enough), the white-point (bleaching out whatever is above the lens barrels) - all great. The three lense barrels lead the eye nicely down to the specimen on the slide - inspired.

I wonder, though, if the lense barrels could've been cleaned up a bit for the shot. And some of the specs of dust cleaned away from around the slide.

Picky, picky, picky...

Ebony and Ivory
by Elvis_L

Comment:
There's a lot I like about this shot. The mix of clear and frosted glass, allowing for transluscence, refraction and reflection to all feature. The strong contrast between left and right. The way the refraction allows light to travel into the "dark" side, and vice versa.

But does it need to be so nearly symmetrical? And vertical? And square? Maybe you tried other positioning, and it didn't work so well...

Study in Glass
by Beetle

Comment:
Too busy for me, I'm afraid...

Fruity Colors
by Jade 11

Comment:
Strong use of colours, and an effective tight composition. Nice.

Black and white
by xantangummi

Comment:
A nice idea. The shot is well framed, and taking the "black and white" theme right through the cruets' contents, the title and the choice of monochrome reproduction is good.

It's a shame that the detail is kinda washed out in the middle by the backlight, and that you didn't have sufficient depth of field to keep the pepper kernels in focus.

Oddball
by glad2badad

Comment:
Great idea, well executed.

Lights out!
by acrotide

Comment:
Evocatively captured. The stark lighting and use of monochrome works well to create a sense of urban blight that goes beyond a mere broken light bulb.

Bird Cage
by swamlove

Comment:
A pretty un-PC play on words, but it gave me a smile.

Hot Glass
by edmeng

Comment:
There are some fascinating patterns on the furnace door. And the yellow heat-trail curving around the top of the ball of glass is highly evocative of the fierce heat inside.

I think there are several photos here, trying to get out. But the whole is less than the sum of the parts, unfortunately. If you had managed to capture just the ball of glass inside the furnace, with that yellow heat flow, you could have had a great shot.

Glass Marbles in the Sky
by statusquo

Comment:
This is marvelous. Getting such sharp focus on the marbles in the air must've been difficult, I imagine - especially with a fast shutter-speed, wide aperture shot like this. Did you really just throw them in the air?

Getting the whisps of cloud on the right to counterbalance the marbles on the left is great. It looks like it was shot with the sun behind you, to get light on the marbles and stop them appearing silhouetted against the sky; correct?