S'now Fun.
by Pedro

Comment:
Decent portrait; especially the near-total lack of expression. Good strong processing, and your border is, for once, absolutely necessary to separate those grey tones from the site background.

Support
by zheka

Comment:
The bokeh is good - just enough for the leading lines just visible enough to lead to your subject. Detail is strong in the pulley, but I just don't find enough interest in this presentation of it.

Diagonal Reflections
by ludde

Comment:
There's bound to be some controversy about this kind of shot: simply rotating an image to meet the challenge requirements - well, actually I don't think it works. Your composition, regardless of the swivel, is still based on an entirely vertical/horizontal opposition. It's a nice shot, however - good mood and sense of light. But I'd have thought it was more of an opportunity to investigate the ideas of a more complex compositional approach.

stairs
by nutzito

Comment:
Strong compositional sense - and that alone sets this apart in this challenge - aand good solid technicals. I can't see that its involving enough, either on a human or a spectacular level to well here, and even allowing for the manner in which the handrail takes the eye away in a nice dynamic against the actual direction of the stairs, it lacks, for me, something more to really engage attention.

Alone
by facesastheycome

Comment:
Has an intriguing feel of the super-(or perhaps rather supra-) natural about it, especially aided by that motion blur.

The "X" Mark
by gg3rd

Comment:
A pity, to my eye, that your processing has taken this so very far away from the ordinary 'photograph'. Apart from the fact that this isn't a place that repays such looks with any kindness, I would suggest it detracts from the interesting visual phenomenon of that 'X'.

Straight & Up
by Alain

Comment:
Quite interesting - though your choice of having the rails run directly up the screen has left the bridge/tower thing seeming tilted to the right. I wonder if you mightn't have been better repaid by trying to trade off the severe regularity of that ironwork with the organic (and visually appealing) snow-dusting on the trees?

Roma
by unicum

Comment:
Good photography. The Cinquecento is perhaps just a touch too warped by the lens for my liking - there's enough comment in the scene, and in the collection of junk under the wiper blades already, perhaps? - but the location, tonality and the overall groove of this is marvellously effective.

The Stockboy's Perspective
by posthumous

Comment:
Now here's an interesting shot; to my mind it cries out for black and white - or at the very least a heightening of the contrast to bring out the closing lines of those shelves - and you slight wide-angle works terribly well to suggest the shelves towering over him too. You might have hoped to catch a better moment fom your unsuspecting model? Some sense of weariness perhaps? He seems just a touch ordinary, just working, just a bit disengaged from any emotion or feeling. But these are all nit-picking points - I like this shot a good deal.

On the Bridge
by Michaels

Comment:
The recession is quite kind on the eye, though overall it's perhaps a touch too unchallenging for me: I wonder if you might not have made it a more austere and strange composition by shooting from the level of the topmost handrail, dividing the frame into quarters with that andit's shadow and the lighting conduit above?