Pride of London
by Imagineer

Comment:
I think I remember your saying you weren't going to win a blue any time soon? ... many congratulations, long overdue my friend.

Edit ... checking your profile, it looks like this was your 100th challenge entry. Some way to celebrate the century Jon.

Message edited by author 2004-12-15 16:52:29.

Linlithgow Palace
by geewhy

Comment:
You score would have been slightly higher had I got as far as this in the voting Gordon. To my mind, a lnadmark without it's context is meaningless, more or less. This, however, is marvellous.

The Severn Bridge
by Wobble

Comment:
OK shot, with some suggestion of the monumental size of the bridge. My guess is that your ISO has been pushed for this - it's quite noisy in many areas. Like the loom of the supports against the darkening sky, and the sense of the night's blare of oncoming headlights, but I find it lacks any great impact: perhaps in that it seems more about the road than the bridge, and it's cluttered and not unusual in that area.

"The Big Chicken" - Atlanta's #1 Landmark!
by wetland

Comment:
Technically fine - focus, exposure and the like. Subject and your approach to it: well, i think it could have been handled with more impact - you seem, to me, simply to have included all of the building, and as little else as possible without cutting off the cars; and that tells me nothing about this place other than exactly what it looks like - and I want to know where it's set, what landscape it's part of, how it relates to it's environment.

U.S. Naval Observatory - Flagstaff, AZ
by jperez1690

Comment:
Some odd perspective distortion has crept in here, presumably from your angle of shooting (else the US naval observatory has been built on the slant, which seems unlikely). Like the ceanliness of the long exposure - not easy to achieve and must have taken care. I think I'd have wanted to calm the brightness of the snow in post-processing - I think that loses some of the impact of the 'night' element of this shot: there isn't enough dark in this to speak of that.

Wook-Koo Native Custodian
by Heavy

Comment:
It's a wonderful piece - the weathered cracks in the wood only add to the expressiveness of the statue. Whilst I'm absolutely with your decision no to centre the subject, I do find your choice of how to go about that a bit odd: that array of greenery seems indistinct, and disorganised.

Small Town Pride
by Damian

Comment:
Impeccable, for me. A great eye, and i wish more people had put the thought into the composition of their images that you display here. Top so far.

Light --- Northern & House
by kremkex

Comment:
There's something really peculiar about this shot - there seem to be striations running vertically through the image, which I can't understand. There's also a sense of blockiness to it, throughout tthe lighthouse textures. Great image though - and controlling the burn-out from the light must have been a hell of a task, and there's only minor distortion around it. Not convinced by your composition quite - the light seems placed neither centrally nor privileged, and I think that adds an unease to what ought to be a simple and elegant shot.

Old Country Church Marks the Way Home
by prbetts

Comment:
Pretty good allround. A touch over-exposed for the whiteness, and your crop has crowded the bottom the image for me. Good colours, pleasant composition.

The Iron Lady of Paris
by Winterberg

Comment:
Made me smile. I like the warm/cold light approach, though here, with this particular angle, I wonder that it doesn't serve to over-accentuate the rigidty of that choice. It has a sense of lacking detail that isn't solely down to the casting of the little model, either - it may be camera, or it may be processing, or it may be a non-tripod shot, or non-sharpening, but it hasn't got that clarity of fine detail, that immediacy.