Pine trail
by Dim7

Comment:
I'll be really interested to see how this scores - it's the kind of terrritory I've tried to shoot for myself, but with no real success: I think it perhaps requires more mystical light, or perhaps fog or mist, to give a sense of drama and depth. One of those scenes that is quite pleasing to experience, but somehow never photographs convincingly without a lot of work.

New Horizons
by silverleaf

Comment:
I've been working on photographing these things myself recently, and have never yet found the 'full cloud' effect very promising as a photo (and I'm afraid you haven't chaged my mind). I'm certain there is some interest to be found there, but still it remains a mystery - I think perhaps those spines of the seeds are too fine to really show any shape through light, and that doesn't make promising territory for photography. I do like tthe DOF here though, and there is a certain near-abstract quality to that 'cloud' that is quite pleasant. All the intersting shots I've seen have involved heads with at least half of the seeds removed - I can recommend trying that approach.

Fresh New Look
by khkai

Comment:
Good detail, though I can't see that the centred framing does much for this one. My main gripe would be with your greyscale though - the poor thing looks grey rather than any shade of white, which works against your title, certainly.

Box Lunches
by sher

Comment:
Intriguing. Has a sense of stillness, a sense of closed-for-lunch (strangely, given the sign). Evidence of heavy over-sharpening, especially around those letters in the sign, and the jaggies on the plant-pot. But I do like tthe composition very much, and that sense of grain. 7

heaven's forward progression
by xburnerx

Comment:
Well composed shot a rather bland subject - a sense of over-neatening too, as though noise reduction has removed too mich detail whilst going about its business. It's an effect that can be very useful, and it leands an eerie model-like feel to the finished image. Highly competent shot, subject matter does little for me. 6

Lights Out
by bruski

Comment:
Arguably more about the presentation than the photograph, which I'm sure will hurt your score here. Tonality of the lampshade itself is very well done, great movement in the shading, though personally I would have tried to take it a little further, or perhaps even to lose the stalk and switch, so that the black point could be set even darker and emphasise more that shading. Not an easy subject to get so clean - especially shot in natural light (the rflections in the light-bulb are pretty revealing)

Away from it all
by heida

Comment:
Lots of stuff to like here, especially the hint of mist on the water. Good composition. A touch too blatantly romantic for me - highly marketable no doubt, and I would suggest highly successful here. kind of advertising industry aspirational, and I personally like a more complex, deeper image. But everso well done, whatever.

A New Perspective
by jjbeguin

Comment:
Perhaps they wouldn't accuse my shots of looking like yours if I could ever compose an image like this - they'd just be absolutely certain :-)

There is something affecting in these partial/diagonal compositions - though that blurred and over-reflected lanscape/cityscape adds a new element for this one.

Mother's Love
by shkelly587

Comment:
Good light, finally - so many people seem to think its enough to just get a shot of an animal, with no thought to other elements of the scene. Not sure about the moment you've chosen though - mother seems more interested in food than her offspring, and the crossing of the two seems a little awkward, compositionally.

Still & Quite
by agwright

Comment:
Nothing quite matches the embarrassment of a typo in the title (I've done it myself - even more embarrassingly, two weeks in a row). Rest assured, it can be corrected later :-)

Other than that, a beautiful capture of a good scene ... Perhaps a bit, er, orthodox for me - a bit too much a standard imae, a stock image perhaps. What I personally think it cries out for is some foreground, to add a greater sense of depth to that recession of hills. Technically however, it's evidently competent.