Of Wisdom
by Pedro

Comment:
Excellent - great to see one the more interesting photographers here back on the front page (and in very good company, too). The trip sounds extraordinary. Wonderful work.

Let's Play
by puma

Comment:
Can certainly see a use for it, and the game's in the news worldwide right now. I think I would have wanted you to include the whole shadow, or at least not crop so close to it. I like that it's used, also.

Maple syrup
by bucket

Comment:
As an illustrative idea this is quite strong, but I can't imagine any client wanting it without cropping - surely, the bucket is the subject here, more than the tree? The fade-out of the background is useful, i think - allowing text to show over it, if wanted. I wonder if a little more drama in the light wouldn't go amiss?

Small Beginnings
by rblanton

Comment:
I can see it having a market, for sure. I have an issue with the non-horizontal, especially for this challenge, and overall the composition seems rather complex for a strong selling image. Good sense of history though, and that would certainly serve.

Rose Bud
by PollyBean

Comment:
Almost. The light around the bud itself, and the effect on the water, is fine - in the area of the stem and the leaves it becomes evident that is very direct, and quite harsh. The cropping out of the lower leaves seems entirely arbitrary.

horizontal lines
by visaksen

Comment:
this remains compositionally gorgeous, and what what might term 'brave' in it's simplicity. It's a disgrace that only three people voted this higher than did I - and I voted nothing higher than this. But you do get the big compliment, from me at least. +fav

Life Through A Lens
by Simonjw

Comment:
Robbed, you were, sir. Thoroughly robbed. This is up there with my top rated shots in this challenge.

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1. Proceed. 2. Hold.
by Skip

Comment:
I was just about to PM you and say I hadn't seen your shot yet. You even got the tonality right, I think. (This had better be you, Skip - but it makes sense). You know what - with my own prints beside me to compare - I really can't decide between the portrait or landscape approach to the subject. This way, the blue0ish room protruding into the space is more effective. landscape way, he space is guven a greater sense of size. You were either lucky or very patient with thse two punters, too. Nice work.

Convergence
by arpita

Comment:
Your extreme sharpness, and contrast, makes this a near-abstract - and not one that I don't like. even at a reasonable viewing distance, it appears to be simply an oganisation of white pixels on a black background. Quite fun, but I prefer more sensation of depth, progression, in photography: this moves too far to the purely graphic for my taste - but of that 'type' of shot, I would place this quite highly.

Lunch Line!
by Drake

Comment:
A very tricky situation to expose correctly - that snow immediately behind the swans is always going to make things hard, and they're not the easiest creatures to photograph anyway, given the white plumage. You've allowed the highlights to gotoo far, for me: not so much on the birds, which would (just) be OK, but certainly in the snow. I think the solution is to under-expose more, and then select and bring back the brightness in the birds heads whilst trying to maintain a sense of the real. This is not a bad go though.