The Window
by SaraR

Comment:
Seems to exist almost completely in the lighter half of the spectrum - I feel no depth of tonality in this image. The flattening effect of this - the apparent absence of real shadow - is quite eye-catching, and quite strange: although rationally we can deduce that there are objects closer and further away from us, there is almost no visual clue to immediately suggest that.

Glimpse
by amber

Comment:
Feels like science fiction, like the beginning of the transporter beam; or maybe like a stage set, lit.

She's Got Legs
by Rissa

Comment:
Interesting take on, in this challenge, a moderately common subject - the zoo animal. The model-esque pose of the front legs is intriguing, and the lines throughout add a sense of understanding.

somewhere, sometime
by Skip

Comment:
I'm quite taken with the little guy on the end, who doesn't seem to know that he should be holding onto the others, and is just going is own way.

Me
by trnqlty

Comment:
If only it wasn't for that utterly bizarre processing, this could surely have been a delightfully self-deprecatory image.

Fire Fighter
by navyasw02

Comment:
Fire in the sewer? I don't even want to start pondering on the implications of that ...

One-man band
by scaramanga

Comment:
Oh at last - I was beginning to think I'd been condemned to look at a ceaseless round of bland landscapes, blooms and other people's children being cute for all eternity. All of a sudden I find myself capable of facial reaction again. Despite a suspicion of over-processing - his cloak looks impossibly smooth, really, this has charm, elegance and just a touch of subversion in the bicycle wheel.

Overlook
by levyj413

Comment:
Almost silhouette, almost lit. There's a sense, almost, of a not-real situation, but that I'm sure is just an accident of light.

Abandoned Beauty
by Structor

Comment:
Temperature inversions over steep hills are always photogenic.

Mirage
by Rebecca

Comment:
Intriguing and impressive: and there's a reversal of colours in the mirror and reality too - just to point things up a little further. I would, of course, prefer this in black and white, but that's a valid choice. I like also that the 'mirage' isn't quite perfectly placed to match the background - just enough to let us know it isn't a missing mirrir or something.