The red one.......
by toti

Comment:
Very good detailing and feel within focus range. Your choice of shot is perhaps a touch too confused for a great image - such a choas of objects without ever finding one single point to hold the eye. Pretty good work, nevertheless.

Gear
by LoudDog

Comment:
Such direct light perhaps mutes the feel of this - making the shape of the whole thing rather more imprtant to the image than the feel of it. Slightly odd angle to choose, relegating that cut end of shaft so far out of frame. Good colour, but not in the end a convincing entry for me.

Cone of Silenced Texture
by MWitt

Comment:
Good subject, well isolated from background both in toning and focus. Fine detail not quite evident, but the texture still gets through.

Aged
by HRoxas

Comment:
Graphically wonderful - very intriguing. From a sense of blance, perhaps the roundels have been taken too far toward edge of frame, and the positioning of the edge of that frame within your frame is maybe too blatant, or perhaps simply too close not to feel constricted. There's an odd sense of not neing able to work out the three dimensionality of the wood, too. seems to dwell more on the shapes, and the composition than the texture - can't work out what's going on with the lighting - it seems to be coming from two different and opposed directions at the same time.

Texture of Pollen
by relb

Comment:
The very finest detail seems slightly lost - like there was just a fraction of camera shake - it may be just a function of the light almost as much as focus or shake, but it doesn't quite have the immediacy of perfect detail. The sense of the dusting of pollen on the curves of the petals is well caught however. The yellowness of that top petal, and those black striations, perhaps compete too much with the stamen for attention.

Sleeping on the Job
by seancgn68

Comment:
Some fine detail seems to be missing from this, which gives a feeling of fake-ness to it, if you follow me. Background makes it look like a studio shot of a statue, but your lighting has filled too much of the stonework (metalwork?) to really emphasise the texture. Competent though.

Woven
by wetland

Comment:
Elegantly done - wonderful wonderful lighting, which is enough to stand it out from the crowd alone. Communicates a great sense of feel. Beyond that, though, just a bit straightforward, perhaps? Sure, it's fabulously photographed, but it remains just a woven bowl/vase/thing. 7 for now.

Adrift in a Shallow Field of Snow
by mariomel

Comment:
You have managed to please almost all of the really great photographers on this site with this image - as consolation for not getting a deserved ribbon - well, it's more than that, isn't it? great list of comments there.

The structure of a drop of water
by mannjudit

Comment:
Like the small world going on inside the drop. Positioning of same in your framing is a bit odd, leaving so much of that bizarrely smooth background as dead space - it doesn't serve to isolate, and yet takes up so much of your image. There;s extraordinarily little progression of tone within that shade, very odd looking (and I've even checked it, and found that there is some small change of intensities in there - excellently well done technically).

All Wet
by Havok

Comment:
Good sense of feel and shape - a touch of the bizarre added by excellent b/w conversion, really masterful use of digital imaging. Framing is satisfying too. Good work indeed.