Go With the Wind
by Imagineer

Comment:
Delighted for you John. How about getting another one, and then winning the master's challenge having not even been able to enter when it started? So who's the best photographer with no ribbons now?

RGB Smoke
by EddyG

Comment:
Like the idea - and the definition in the smoke, a difficult capture well achieved. The actual patterning of the smoke itself is a touch chaotic, I think i'd have found a simpler composition more appealling.

Wahatoya
by vtruan

Comment:
Wonderfully serene light - I just really really wish, especially forr this challenge, that you'd done something about the noise in this shot. it just doesn't match the kind of shot it is, nor the scene, nor the mood of it. cleaned up, it would be spectacular. 6

Loch Arklet
by geewhy

Comment:
No it isn't original - it's done by carefully selecting and blurring the background, but it does give the most bizarre effect, doesn't it? A guy called Tom Merilion does this kind of thing for real, using a 5x4 format film camera altered to take 35mm film - thus exacerbating the depth of field.

It's a top effect, and beautifully served here Gordon.

PS. Oh, and let me know if I'm wrong, and I'll apologise profusely. But you can't do this with a 602Z, i know that :-)

Broken Rings
by zeuszen

Comment:
Oh hell this I love - it's like they've escaped, those scars of age. The replication of their pattern in the sand speaks of both the temporary and the permanent (we note that fossilised tree-rings have been used to determine environmental variations in millenia past - they are truly part of the permanent record), and yet the marks in the sand, we know, will not be there tomorrow. The light, editing of light, use of light, is wonderful.

We call em "Bush Rangers" round 'ere mate & he's a biggen!
by Node

Comment:
He's Ned, ain't he mate? :-) Like it - but maybe a little context, given the challenge?

The State Capitol
by smartypants

Comment:
Like this - like the compositional strength of that diagonal, and the geometry of the whole thing. given the challenge, I would have liked the green to be stronger in the trees, in my experience of travel guides they like bright stuff; and even beyond that, I rather think some colour in there - more colour rather - would balance the detail in the rest of the shot nicely.

Tettegouche State Park
by Links 2 3 4

Comment:
Not enough here, I fear, not enough: your work on the waterfall itself is, i think, rather good - not going overboard on the motion blur, and neither freezing the motion to make it look odd; but that is all you have here - very little context, and what there is is not very striking - rather dark, undefined, and therefore uninteresting to the eye - lightening, or simply increasing contrast in just those areas might go someway to solving that, but I think the process would only be part of what you need. There simply needs to be more for the eye to move through in the shot, some kind of shape to lead the eye to the waterfall, to maintain a sense of movement through the image. 4

Americas Finest City
by Brad

Comment:
Pretty fine shot - good quality of light, detail seems lacking somewhat - I think that you've either used too high a radius when sharpening or your camera has done that for you (it reminds me of the way my Fuji2800Z shots come out), which gives those light lines around the building edges, and likewise removes details inside the shapes. Given the challenge, and open editing, I'd have thought cloning out the crane would have been good. I also think you've left too much space around the sky-line - whilst the quality in the sky and water is interesting, I don't think you need so much of it, and it makes the sky-line seem incidental to the composition. You have, at least, placed the horizon at a sensible point in frame, which is good. I think it needs more information to excite it, something extra: maybe that boat more in the foreground than it is, but something. Very much on the right lines though, I think.

Market Street
by banmorn

Comment:
Tempted to put simply 'correct' here :-) Absolutely the right use of a detail shot to convey a wider impression. The severe brightness of the central building's windows might have been controlled a litttle better, I think, it just verges too close to burn-out to my eye. Otherwise, a fine shot.