Dim Bulb
by adine

Comment:
Not sure this is a phrase I know, but who cares when the photography is this good? Absolutely perfect. Might even be the first print I buy, if you'll put it in dpcp.

Later ... just gets better every time I see it. Reminds me of some of the early photographic experiments, guys like emerson and Goodall, or Fenton even perhaps. It's that strange un-worldly shading around the edge of the bulb of glass, the way the thickness of the glass produces a dark ring and almost a halo. Would I be right in guessing this isn't actually a blaxk and white shot, but rather a heavily de-saturated full colour image? Seems to have tints of purple, and amber in it. The only way to portray such depth on computers that I know of ... good luck, I hope this wins.

''Ice Fall'' by Shannon O'Cork
by kiwiness

Comment:
Clever approach to the title, technically excellent shot too. I like this because it relies on the reflection of light, rather than the refraction that so many stopped motion water shots do. There's still somethnig not quite gripping about it for me - it may only be that I've played with such effects so much myself :-)

Left out in the Cold
by Nazgul

Comment:
Nailed it, absolutely. Great dark, indutrial kind of photo.

Can of worms
by kiwiness

Comment:
Don't even want to think about setting this up :-) Good solid clean photography, technically perfect. Not quite as haunting as a couple of images here, but I think it puts you in with a very good chance.

John Steinbeck: Grapes of Wrath
by crabappl3

Comment:
Marvellous. Has the desolation, the relentlessness, and even the period feel of the book. Sepia is excellently done, and I like the almost graphic composition too - verges on the edge of being just shapes.

To the Lighthouse
by dan_pendleton

Comment:
Beautiful composition - slight blowing out of highlights (well, more than slight really) on the white paint is a touch annoying, but only a touch.

Potty Book for Boys. 2 by Alyssa Satin Capucilli
by kinks

Comment:
I think this is working in two contradictory ways: the hue shift is intriguing, making it look almost like a pop art piece - but then the dirtiness of the seat works against the stylised look of that genre. I think you fall between two stools here ...

Romeo & Juliet
by jackditch

Comment:
Arguably not a book, but I'm not splitting hairs. I think the perspective distortion really hurts this image. Also perhaps you haven't got far enough away, or you've cropped too close - including what I presume are more pillars either sie of these archways would emphasise the repetition more fully. As it is ... well, solid photography, but there's no drama, no mystery - if you could have shot it at night, with light streaming out of just one window ...

"Are you my mother?"
by thefragile

Comment:
Blunt, ugly, in-your-face and excellent photoraphy. In a sense. Might have been more impact from a beautifully set-up studio shot of the same carcass - the contrast of the perfect/cosmetic studio situation with the toughness of the planet would be arresting.

Preserving the Taste. The Secrets to Great Salsa
by vrphotos

Comment:
Bloody hell, someone wrote a whole book about Salsa? A WHOLE book?

Reasonable shot - but overlit, I think: you've taken almost all the shadowsing away, and it's shadowing that gives depth and texture and the third dimension to photography. There is SOME, of course, but it's very slight, very (too) subtle. Still, at least you didn;t take it with a full frontal flash. Slightly over-exposed on the garlic and the cloth too - you could have taken at least half a stop off I think. Pretty enough composition, but I find no excitement in it I'm afraid. 6