Extraordinary Wave
by Dim7

Comment:
Great moment to capture, fitting for the challenge. Final image lacks a level of detail at least however, which takes away quite a bit of the impact of the shot.

Old-fashioned Terracotta Pot with Mountain Rocks
by kaycee

Comment:
What this lacks to my mind, is a moment of light. The illumination across the scene is absolutely even, very little graduation of shade anywhere: that leaves you without much evidence of texture to work with in your shot, and thus a mundane scene produces a mundane photograph. Compositionally the wooden thing really removes the eye from your subjects - without that the shaping of elements within the shot would be fine.

brightest bulb
by Seanachai

Comment:
Like a lot of things about this - the high contrast, grainy effect (actually comes from the background, I think), evenness of light in the 'un-lit' bulbs, the slightly 'off' composition. Has a near-graphic quality to it. Would personally have tried to get a more 'pnotographic' progression of light across those bulbs, but that's just a personal thing.

Public Telephone Boxes
by redmoon

Comment:
Good photography - but not half as clever as the guy who set that up :-) I'm not sure about the narrow cropping - not sure that it doesn't actually lessen the impact of the shot. I'm sure there's good reason, but it does leave me thinking 'why cut off the bottom of them?'.

Teapot Reflection
by lizzyc3

Comment:
Not wholly convinced about this one. Certainly meets the challenge perfectly - but something in the composition, perhaps just that you've excluded so much of the actual form of the tea-pot, takes away from it - perhaps without the tilt it would be more immediately familiar, or perhaps with a slightly less narrow aspect ratio. Good balance of shapes and forms I think, but that one thing lets it down a touch.

Seven
by dsray

Comment:
Technically impeccable work. There is a suitable weirdness to the composition, and the subject, without detracting from the 'mundane' thing. I'm in two minds about the single bean - not sure there isn't already enough going on , what with contrasts of size of glass and colours of beans, for that to be over-egging the pudding, but I guess you've already agonised about that.

My Watch
by tommy_t

Comment:
Good use of colour here - you've managed ot echo the red of that hand's point in the scene without it seemiung overpowering or plain bizarre - and thankyou from the bottom of my heart for not putting a red line in the border :-) Certainly a mundane enough subject - made it look extraordinary? Jury's out for the minute ...

Mount Lampshade
by MWitt

Comment:
Very nice idea, and pretty fine execution of it. I find the composition a bit irritating, however: I think I would have likes the crown of the shade more solidly in frame, allowing the eye a real place to be drawn up to - as it is, I think you draw the eye rather more out of frame than to any particular point. Would have been marvellous for textures, also.

Death Star Tablelamp
by johnm

Comment:
Reminiscent of a shot from the Matrix challenge. Colouring is good, and puts the image into a non-mundane area, for sure. I'm not sure that you wouldn't really want to make this a very symmetrical composition, given that it's such a pure image, and simple picture: the slight tilt, and placing the pattern of the holes so far up frame works rather against the very abstract quality of it. Certainly meets challenge subject though.

Box
by tomlewis1980

Comment:
I think your chosen depth of field actually works against this image: i don't seen the real benefit of stressing those particular angles of the flaps against the rest of the box. Sure, the text is ;egible, but as a point that would stand out against the regularity of the rest of the box, I don't think it neededd to be accentuated this way - for me, it only leaves the rest of the image to seem odd, as opposed to 'extraordinary'.