King Ink
by Nazgul

Comment:
Not bad at all - just a couple of problems for me. Firstly the feather seems to be too much shadowed by the ink bottle, and there seems to be a lack of detail in the rendition of it: the image looks as though it has already been sharpened, so maybe the focus isn't quite there (unless this is a Nikon 5400 shot, in which case it's just one of those weird ones). The other thing is that the cropping has really crowded the image for me - so close to the edge of the bottle, the feather's shadow, almost creates a fake tension about whether the subject will actually fit in the image. A little space around things isn't necessarily 'dead' space.

Evening Star
by mariomel

Comment:
Incredibly sharp image - either a really still night or a fabulous piece of USM work. Star filter, and that's the moon, yeah? I like the way the extraordinary light in the sky contrasts with the humdrum world below - and the colour in the trees is just enough to add a little visual interest to that humdrum world.

The Grapes of Wrath
by irenes

Comment:
Very strange that this idea's cropped up twice - though i think differently done this time.

St. Peter's at Dusk
by mbardeen

Comment:
Congratulations Matt - had to get a blue onto your profile sooner or later. Great work.

The Unlit Lamp (Radclyffe Hall)
by Catherine

Comment:
Thoughtfully presented, and intriguing use of DOF to blur wat one would expect to be the real strength of this shot. I like the way it moves from a believable world - the texture of the in focus glass/metal - to the purely abstract over on the left; and the colours are good. The detail of that hook pulls far too much attention I think - oh, it's the edge of the filament, isn't it? - not convinced it should only have been partially shown, not sure what that achieves.

On the river Styx (Peter Matthiessen)
by rhipster

Comment:
Jeesh, Charon has a spare boat? Beautiful shot - like the near graphic quality given by the very still water and that tongue of land. Can't quite imagine the borders of hell looking so peaceful, however :-)

Animal Farm
by DebN2003

Comment:
I'm wonddering why you've shot it from this very ordinary angle, and whether a lower POV would help (my feeling: yes, enormously). Somewhat clutterd composition too, though I do like the attack hippo.

Crossroads of Twilight (By Robert Jordan)
by guobin

Comment:
Would love to see this with an even longer exposure - you'd probably need major ND filters to get that slow though - but the curves of the moving traffic would emphasise even more the yellow box at the junction. Intersting shot.

High Fidelity
by Imagineer

Comment:
Forbidden Colours huh? I work regularly with Ryuichi, not a song one sees a lot of around these days ...

Quite a cool photo - though I'm not sure it holds the interest very long. Detail, focus, all that is fine - just think it's a bit straightforward, and there isn't the profoundly good lighting to turn that into something fascinating. 6

Like Water For Chocolate
by pcody

Comment:
Well executed, but surely old hat by now. Check out Dr Harold (Doc) Edgerton's work, if you don't already know it of course.