Johnny Guitar
by pawdrix

Comment:
I like the reoluttion in this: the weathering of the steps fixes the evident determination of life of this guy - the no compromise life. I hope he's a happy guy: he looks like he's OK with it, huh?

Oh yeah, minimalism. I don't know - who cares?

Tranquillity
by bpcardona

Comment:
Interesting, arresting shot. I'd have tried to control that exposure a touch further - to get less blow-out on those wings, and i wonder if you wouldn't have benefitted from cropping some to place your subject more strongly - I think you'd still meet the challenge with a touch larger a subject.

Cherry Tree in Bloom
by roonie

Comment:
I have no opinion one way or the other about borders: as you might see, I border all my own presentations here. This one, however, contrasting so very strongly with the image, is not to be ignored, and I can't see that it complements rather than fighting with this shot - especially using a colour selected out of the image itself, which serves in my mind only to strengthen the connection between the image and the border, and this to re-emphasise the border itself. In many ways it serves, to my eye, only to relgeate those flowers to a secondary subject of the presentation: the thing that one's eye is constantly pulled to is ... well, you know where I'm going.

Morning Flood
by bruski

Comment:
A considered and neat composition: great colour rendition also. Your detail in the flower is exemplary, but it does make the background slightly annoying - oh for less movement in the water, really (minor point). Top work.

Waking up in the morning sun
by lastef

Comment:
Forgiving the perspective distortion, and your slightly odd-seeming approach to dealing with it - I'd rather the more central part of the frame were vertical, than the extreme edge of one side - this is a great shot. Nothing wrong with it that wouldn't be deal-able-with with more processing allowed.

Death at the Lake
by sher

Comment:
Did I not comment on this already? Sher, I think this is a marvellous shot - I love the overtones of antique life about it; it almost might be pre-historic. Marvellous photography.

Morning Run
by Kekiinani

Comment:
Good tones, good exposure generally. What a way to live, huh?

Out of Wall St.
by charmayne

Comment:
Top image. A shame you couldn't just have kept the brightness of that cloud opening under control - one senses detail of light and shade there that would have made this spectacular. But it's a difficult metering situation, to be fair. Did you shoot RAW? That might have given you the option to get that back under control in processing ...

An Evening
by Joe_Cool

Comment:
As an idea, excellent - meets the challenge absolutely. Your technical execution of it isn't up to much however: blurry, indistinct, and lacking much variation in the colour tones. It has potential, for sure.

ANZAC Day - Remembering a fallen soldier
by hsvhoon

Comment:
I think you need to put some work into composition - this just doesn't work: the near-centred placing of the people, cutting the horizon through them like that, the big shadows in the edges of frame. Couple that with a rather over-exposed image as a whole, and it's bad news: you could bring the levels down in the entire thing, which would bring life to the colours and the sky. But its that compositional thing that lets this idea down for me.