Tiny Vase
by Judith Polakoff

Comment:
Wonderful light, neat and subdues sense of soft focus suits the subject quite well. Whilst I'm certain it is a macro, it has little of the appearance of one, nor of an extreme close-up; there is little sense of scale, and I have a problem with that for this challenge. But it's a sweet shot. 6

Geode
by Mark

Comment:
It might almost be an 'earth from the air' shot of a volcanic crater and lake, this. The small area top left upsets the composition, to my eye; I think, anyway, such a regular, graphic image requiress a much more regular composition. Neat, but as an abstract it is too busy for my taste, and as a photograph - well, it could be a created image.

Virgin Islands
by GP

Comment:
Intriguing and fun. Great metallic sheen to the background, works perfectly with the reflections and the lights. Suitably deep depth of field for such a graphic shot.

Don't Be A Clinging Vine
by bobgaither

Comment:
Whilst there is some interst here, specifically in the colouration - although that has the feeling of ebing overly pushed - I find the overall construction of the image untidy and directionless. I would personally have tried to isloate the berries more strogly, either with more extreme depth of field, or simply framing them against the read of those leaves.

Soap and Water
by Tranquil

Comment:
I like the grey/gold tones here. It's a pretty good capture, although I have reservations about the out of focus/blurred area at the top of frame in the water. Interesting reflections and refractions but doesn't quite do it for me, overall.

Amber
by LisaCan

Comment:
Nicely executed abstract, though not the kind of busy and indeterminate stuff i really understand. Thhere's a strngth evident in the composition, for sure, but in general it leaves me cold, I'm afraid.

I can see you baby!
by Stagolee

Comment:
So weird. Pretty well done, though the reflection is contradictorily busy for such a very simple composition. The surround of the eye looks so like minced beef it's difficult to get past that.

The First Drop
by anireno

Comment:
The inverted view in the drop is ditractingly almost definable - whereas I think the strength of the image is in the colour, rather than that diffraction. Quite a neat shot.

10 mg tabs of real Ecstasy
by DustyO

Comment:
Lots of evidence of compression fomr a very small file size has hurt this a lot. Even without that attendant loss of detail, would it really have had an exceptional edge to it? I can't imagine so, I fear ...

Fingers do the walking
by srozmus

Comment:
Quite nice graphically, but seems over-shaprened, and I'm not convinced it was veer going to make an engaging shot - very little sense f three dimensionality to find here.