Three Little Jugs
by agwright

Comment:
Excellent Tony - and completes your ribbon collection. Good work.

I Wish I Had A Friend
by OneSweetSin

Comment:
Right, i've deliberately waited until later than usual to write my critiques, to see if it changes anything, and of course it doesn't.

I like the mood of this one Anna - even though the focus seems to have 'missed', and the rocks behind the child seem more in focus than he is. Plenty og good and useful comments too, which is good to see.

I'd like to see what he's doing with the stick, even if it's just waving around in mid-air, especially as the composition really pulls the focus that way - the movement of the eye from falls, to child, to stick is very natural and it's a touch a shame that the end of the stick isn't there. I think focussing fully on the child, and leaving the bacground to blur out with depth of field would add impact, but perhaps would lose some of the tones of the rocks. The selecive colour thing works, as some have said, to bring the eye to the subject, and works well for that: and it's a trick I mostly don't like at all.

One of your better shots, I think Anna.

ed

remnant
by mcmurma

Comment:
Pretty good ... early days voting, so i might come back ...

Smoking in the rain
by jjbeguin

Comment:
Meant to come back and leave more of a comment, but time ran out (as ever). I like the mood here, and your capturing of it - we've not had so many rainy days in the UK recently, and this summons up that greyness and reflectiveness of the world, without resorting to black and white. The deception is pretty subtle too - it so looks like a cobbled street, but that would make it the world's largest cigarette.

Grado, Italy
by paolobnr

Comment:
No no no. This was the winner, honestly: those other ten shots are an illusion, created by the masters of un-challenging images to decieve you. Though it's a given of dpc that the more complex the image the better it's going to have to be to penetrate everyone's brain.

I'd consider Kiwi's point though - about space to the left of the figures. Not so much for their placement though (I like that you only show the world they're moving into), but to complete the junction of sea and walkway. Great work.

Dove
by sulamk

Comment:
Sharpening artefacts here are quite intrusive, and the processing (I'm not saying it isn't in camera, but they're still present) has lost you a lot of detail.

Grado, Italy
by paolobnr

Comment:
Just fabulous. Do you know a photo by Andre Kertesz called The Balcony, Martinique? It uses the same construction, though in a more abstract manner than this (but then if this were THAT good, you'd BE Andrre Kertesz, wouldn't you?). Great composition, textures, shapes. The ultimate leading line, perhaps.

Breakdown
by TooCool

Comment:
Too posed - or at any rate, too posed-looking - to be truly affecting. Quite like the way the subject isn't lit, if you see what I mean. But it feels too obvious. Looks like someone with a hangover, more than someone deperate.

Hug Me!
by Khalid

Comment:
Peculiar title :-) I'm not sure you've got enough of the surroundings of this shoot to give a great feeling of solitude - the impression is of clever framing rrather than a real one-off plant in a wilderness. Technically perfectly fine - and I like the progression of focus against the grain of the soil/sand whatever.

Smoking in the rain
by jjbeguin

Comment:
Has to be JJ, no? Think I've seen those buildings the right way up in other shots of yours.