Nebulous
by glasseye

Comment:
don't know that I really see anything blurry here. Abstract, attractive but not blurry.

Houses Of The Holy
by pawdrix

Comment:
I love these sorts of shots. My nosy side would really enjoy seeing some people or activity happening through windows further up.

Rebel
by Tej

Comment:
Looking at this I can't help but be reminded about the advice I read from Steve McCurry, in this interview with him.

When asked what those two years of travel taught him, McCurry says simply, “Just because someone’s wearing a turban, doesn’t mean it’s an interesting photo."

I know I have the same issue - I see something cool and take a very literal image of it, rather than working to find an interesting photo of something interesting.

Towards the Summit
by arpita

Comment:
sweet. I'm heading out there next week. Great shot.

On the Rocks?
by yanko

Comment:
this was a real standout during voting - nice light.

Campbell's Tomato Soup... Possibilities
by Jib

Comment:
warhol would be proud

... and I heard somebody singing sweet and soulful
by pawdrix

Comment:

Originally posted by Prof_Fate: The fire escape has no reason for being in the image - I scrolled over to eliminate it and the image got better. Also, the building on the bottom left is crooked to the edge of the frame, an easy fix beacuse to the normal person buildings don't look like this, so here it's a distraction. I'm not keen on the distribution of the clouds, partly behind the cross I mean.

Probably couldn't disagree more. Maybe I could try. It's true that once you take out the balancing staircase on the right that the buildings on the bottom become too heavy so need to go too - but I don't think that helps.

A big part of what works or is close to working in this is the rhythmic repetitions of the cross shapes that are almost appearing in the spaces between the staircase and the spaces between the buildings.

Getting rid of all that crops it down to a relatively banal and boring sky/cross shot. Less subtle about the Christian symbolism I suppose, loses any heaven/ earth context and grounding.

The stairway to heaven seems quite necessary though ;)

Dirty Aftermath
by pawdrix

Comment:
a modern day guy jumping over a puddle, yet with a gas mask on

The Cyclone
by pawdrix

Comment:
awesome. Great colour, interesting pose and subject, good use of background. sweet.

... and I heard somebody singing sweet and soulful
by pawdrix

Comment:
oh for a silhouette of a person on one of those balconies/ ladders. Certainly the symbolism you've used is powerful and trying to include more symbols in your work is a great way forward to more meaningful images. But symbols on their own is a bit like playing chopsticks on a piano. Great practice. Now for the performance.