Broken, Beaten, and Abandoned
by JEFFJSB

Comment:
Good shot, though ti's a shame about the jaffies around the screen frame. It's a neat compsition too, and I think you do very well not to fall into the common trap of trying t show the whole car.

I'm sorry it had to end like this.
by xtabintun

Comment:
Ah. A sad end to a sad tale. Let this stand as a warning to others ...

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broken horn
by spease

Comment:
This is so very much only a record of something - photography used as a way of making that. The light is very flat, the background, whilst well executed, makes that documentary element even stronger. Give the light some angle (i.e. don't use on-board flash), and you have some sense of three-dimensions to this, and that alons would add a whole element of interest.

Pencil's broken...Spirit is not!
by glad2badad

Comment:
Well, I'm a real hater of this kind of border, I fear. I just don't get the point of it., and it seems to serve only to distract from the actual photograph.

Neglected and Run Down
by Heavy

Comment:
Good work - love the sense of location, so important to these shots. I think you could have darkened the foreground a little, and added impact thereby - it would have brought out the yellow tones in the grasses, and complemented the sky quite efffectively.

Pride of London
by Imagineer

Comment:
... and lurking in the haze just to the right of the Cathedral, is the vague outline of one of the towers of the Barbican Centre: so make that three iconic bits of british architecture. That last, of course, doesn't get quite the plaudits of the others.

if he ain't broken, don't sit
by Donald

Comment:
A very poor shot, I'm afraid. Motion blur from camera, colouring is weak and uninteresting. The horse appears friendly and gentle, rather than powerful and intimidating which is what your title implies. Has the feel of a snapshot entered in a hurry.

Gone To Pot
by SteveJ

Comment:
The on-board flash, which under normal circumatances is a light I absolutely loathe, and which does absolutely nothing for almost all subjects, has given a glow to this image which I like. Strange composition - that top line of fracturing doesn't reada sbroken without some looking, and the obviously broken parts of it are so relegated in the frame. But I like it - it's more about survival, but that by it's nature implies some kind of breakage. Interesting

Broken...I hate when that happens!
by Sweetlips

Comment:
I've been avoiding this shot as i don't know what to say about it. it's absolutely fine - other than that the 'break' is somewhow lost in the composition. I think the lines of the bottle and crkscrew and whole part of the cork are so strong, the take the attention away from what ought to be the real area of interest for this challenge - and the screw appears twisted and that feels so unlikely that one gets a strong sense of distortion rather than illustration. Technically a fine shot, although in such a clean set-up I wonder that the noise mightn't have been reduced.

broken or bust?
by whiteroom

Comment:
Wonderful - love those dirty reds and brown tones. A minor point, but might not the figure have had a greater relation to her environment? It would add to the surresl nature of the shot if there were some sense of interaction rather than simply location? Like I said, a minor point. This is wonderful stuff though, I shall come back to it.