Chaotic Reflection
by russi

Comment:
Colourful and pretty, though a little bit bland, in a greetings-card kind of way. Chaos? Well, I'm finding it impossible to vote with my own sense of that in mind, but this doesn't meet my sense of it. To counter that, I can see its presence here in a mathematical sense. Overall, a highly competent shot, just lacking a touch of inspiration. And I slightly wish you'd cropped out the top of the hull, but that's a personal preference.

Rush Hour Traffic
by garrywhite2

Comment:
As, I should imagine, with so many shots on this subject, it's a question of where you draw the line between chaos and complicated order - which is my first impression on seeing this. Any well composed photo is bound to suffer perhaps from seeming too irganised to represent chaos - perhaps explains the small number of entries. A fine photograph, although it really doesn't speak of chaos to me - nevertheless, a 7.

Sugar Mountains
by Imagineer

Comment:
One of the best captures of light there is on the site - second perhaps, only to the Sydney Harbour Bridge shot. Didn't see it in voting unfortunately, but would have been a certain 10.

"New Landmark"
by eagleone03

Comment:
Such a small image ... a shame perhaps, especially when the amount of compression artefacts present. Looks like it might have been intersting tonally, on those wall panels, but it's really so little bigger than a thumbnail it's impossible to tell.

Hopeless
by alternarule

Comment:
I'm not certain that the colour noise is effective, certainly in such a near black and white shot. The capture is good, the scene is good, and it's well composed however ... a decent photojournalism shot. Porcessing is lacking to my view though - the figure seems overly lightened, without putting back any contrast much, and as I said the noise (which doesn't work like grain for me, being colour noise).

Magical water
by nicklevy

Comment:
Good toning - there's a serenity to those tones of brown and grey - and a smoothness that's appropriate to product photography, especially perfume. can't say that I find iit to be anything out of the ordinary, though.

The birds are back
by pcody

Comment:
Nice portrait - like the colour contrast here with the reflected sky. I would personally have cloned out the glass mark bottom left ... I keep trying to read what it says, and can't, quite.

Too Young to Belong
by LtHousLady

Comment:
Of course there is sadness in the death of a child, that almost goes without saying.

Your photo, however, is really very blunt. It is entirely a portrait of a tombstone - what sense of location there is is simply entirely of a graveyard, exactly as one would expect, and makes no contrast, comment or difference to the view of the stone. As a study of the texture of the stone, the light is not useful - there is little sense of smoothness, or roughness, and the framing and depth of field does not allow for a perception of contrast with the grass, trees, and what surroundings are visible. This is what I mean by 'blunt' ... there is nothing else going on here, in photographic terms.

Had it been my own project, I think I would have tried to show something of the atmosphere of the cemetary/graveyard, or perhaps tried to contrast the heaviness, solidity and smoothness of the stone with the surrounding grass, leaves, or whatever. Those choices would depend on the nature of the location. Colour might have been effective in that task - it seems to be a black stone, and to contrast that with a vibrant green in the grass, or perhaps the leaves of the tree (shooting upwards from the ground), might have made colour a good choice for the shot - black and white is not necessarily the only way to 'do' sombre moods.

Just some thoughts.

Ed

Factory Accident?
by Jacko

Comment:
Technically, of course, wonderfully executed - attention to detail is aastounding, even the scalloping of the edge of the tin's lid is organised. Would it be ungracious of me to point you at this photo of mine?

Many congratulations on the ribbon.

A close shave
by jjbeguin

Comment:
So what is it ... can people not read, or something?