Freedom of speech.
by Dufus

Comment:
Shows some of the difficultire of photo-journalism - too many peculiarities in these people (looking at camera, weird cropping, weird expressions). Positioning of the statue is weird. Prominence of the Hotel name almost makes the shot about that, rather than whatever the subject of the demonstration is. Almost weird enough to be about that weirdness itself - but your title, and the concentration of the image suggests otherwise.

Rising (soccer) star
by litbolti

Comment:
Kind of like this, for its sheer oddness and mood. I like the composition, the fact that it makes the image as much about the location as about the figure - provides a nice balance, a nice dichotomy in the scene. I'm sure a different frmaing would have fared better on dpc - balance the figure with the light on the wall that you've half cropped-out to right, and you'd have a much more orthodoxly composed (and equally, more immediately eye-catching) image. I'm glad you haven't - glad there are people submitting not just for the prizes.

Mosquito Heaven
by ladpupmoe

Comment:
Not quite sure what the problem is (light prbably, it usually is), but there's a lack of detail in the little monster - and even, to a lesser extent in the leaf. Perhaps a sligh camera movement? Cunningly reduced with sharpening perhaps, but there isn't that pop of definition that one would look for.

My First Barn
by Neuferland

Comment:
The burnt-out sky is such an obvious problem here - and seems to be a simple case of dynamic range being unable to cope with the scene you wanted to capture - and the only solution? A different time of day, or different weather ... Also, I'm not completely certain about your framing of the image - those buildings to the left, cutting them off - perhaps you could have afforded to include more of the context here, rather than so blatantly concentrating on the barn alone? The cut off of those sheds unbalances the image a bit, for me.

solitude (my first trip to the mountains)
by fstopopen

Comment:
A few things upset what for me would otherwise be a wonderful shot. I think tere's too much going on - tree. stones, sky, and somehow you haven't brought those elements together compositionally. The line of rocks doesn't work with the shape of tree in any harmonious way. The extraneous greenery in the left of frame might confortably have been lost, andd I also think that that dead tree is too closely cropped in shot - I feel that a little more distance would have kept it in the foreground, and used it as a compositional element to draw the middle distance roacks and the far horizon together. In landscape, many of the most useful compositional ideas come from simple geometric patterns - curves, circles, triangles (especially the latter) - shapes that the eye has a natural inclination to follow.

Shapely Sage
by osram

Comment:
Not sure what this is, not that it matters, but those 'extra' lines, the less geometric ones, kind of upset the fluidity of the image for me - it's otherwise so perfectly abstract, and I'm not convinced that they add much. Not that you could just have popped up and removed them of course, but nevertheless ...

Fire extinguisher
by MrAkamai

Comment:
Like this, like the simplicity of it, and the progression of light across the wall's bricks. On thing I would change would be to sorrect the perspective distortion, or to shoot head-on in the first place - that slight coming together of the lines of bricks across the frame produces an odd feeling of unevenness across the image, and it isn't what i sense this shot is about.

On Mother's Day
by David.C

Comment:
In terms of simple technical competence this is wonderful. However, there's an element of meaningfulness that I look for in a shot, and I don't find much here - no great absorbtion in the light, and no great attraction in the image as a whole. Still a 6 though.

New Life
by dagaleaa

Comment:
Staggeringly good wildlife photo - almost beggars belief that you've never shot this before :-) That sense of chaos given by the specks of dirt that appear to be flying (on closer inspection the might well just be on a wall), but nevertheless the imapct is special. Great image.

Mother’s Day
by thelsel

Comment:
That really heavy balck order is I guess appropriate in this case - and I like the intention I percieve here - though i always find selective desturation slightly too blunt an effect to have real emotional impact. Love the rest of the editing work - though the suggestion of the sun in that burnt-out light makes the absence of shadows a touch too weird for my taste. Intriguing shot though - great sense of balance, compositionally.