Art School
by posthumous

Comment:
It's because people decide what they want to/think they ought to see, and they don't look at what they're being shown. What is all this 'too much dark'? Are they mad? Tantamount to saying 'your photograph ought to be different' and that is, actually, quite offensive.

Why ruin my favorite swimming hole?
by jasonlprice

Comment:
I think, perhaps, a vertical version of this might have suited better. I haven't much to say about it - I don't find much magic in it in any sense, but I think all the necessary weight of composition is in the left side of this image, and the fallen trees add very little - in fact just complicate things unusefully for this place.

Why...can't you just WIPE YOUR FEET!!!!!!!
by jonfrommk

Comment:
So close together, these footsteps; those, perhaps of a near-invalid, or a sneak. Perhaps that's it - perhaps it's just evidence, and we might read into the few elements we have left to judgement some story of burglary, or given the kitchen-floor feeling, something more sinister. If it wasn't for your title, that is.

Why? No no no! Y-Knot!
by landcamera

Comment:
I'm unsure of your light, I suppose. This has little appeal to me - in any sense, I'm afraid: one has seen so many still lives, product shots, 'shapes' concocted to amuse us. But a decent hemp rope has such fabulous texture and spikiness that a direct pool of blue light seems an odd choice to illuminate it with.

Survey Pin at the Edge of the Ocean... Why?
by macleodn

Comment:
The 'why' that I would append to this is the question about the inclusion of no water in it. The house/inn and cars and stuff of that background pull the eye relentlessly - they're the only human part of this image of course - and as it stands it seems an absolutely suitable place for a survey pin. Where, I should ask, is the water?

You may be wondering why I've called you all here today...
by Dona_k

Comment:
Did make me laugh; and (why) is that such a defeating thing when it comes to taking a photograph, er, seriously? In terms of that world, and my assessment this isn't going to shatter anyone's world-view of course, and in terms of the oft-referred-to 'wow' factor, the closest this place comes to acknowledging it's general liking for the fake and over-blown, this of course gets almost no points. But I like it, I like its un-assuming ways, and its little joke, and its modesty.

Neon Rose
by pipersd

Comment:
I wonder if lighting more from one side might have had a greater impact - shown the lins of the progress of the light less obviously?

urbanfoto
by redmoon

Comment:
Perhaps your intention was to show this as grey, muted, slightly discomforting. That's certainly the impact of it. It seems deliberately to throw the eye around - the half-building, the sheer massive presence of the pipe-thing, the half-sight of the well known building. Then the tonlaity - not one pixle as far as I can tell even as bright as the site background, and everything hazing into grey, almost into black. You ain't half asking a lot of the voters ... ;-)

whitehorse
by Ristyz

Comment:
Decent shot - detail, timing, processing. The only problem for me is that it lacks adventure photographically - it's just a tightly framed shot of a horse running. Maybe there was a way to show the energy, strength, dynamism without being so obvious in your framing?

desertedhouses
by see

Comment:
This does have a certain sense of age - I'm guessing that's the point of the toning here. In terms of visual interest however I'm unsure about the point of view you've chosen - perhaps to allow a greater sense of shape you might have found more of an angle on it. I think I would still find it a fairly old and hackneyed subject (just like my own 'version' of it!), but you could have done more to encourage your score.