Ye Old Mill
by hanae

Comment:
Good detail, and interesting crop.

In His Eyes
by movieman

Comment:
I enjoy this - the positioning of the image in the frame within frame is effective - just enough of lips, eyes, hair and cheekbone to emphasise the make-up, without making it seem too posed. The background disturbs a little - just a bit too close to being in focus perhaps, and therefore drawing the eye in an attempt to discover wat it is? It might have made a fine black and white image - that would enhance the strange graphic composition, and reduce the absolute impact of the orange and the background.

Echoes of Thunder
by Imagineer

Comment:
Good stuff Jon - almost like Gursky in its vagueness, but impeccable composition. Up in the heady heights of the 300's too.

The Smile
by jjbeguin

Comment:
Dang! Look at that: a whole seventeen places ahead of me. I don't think they like us here, JJ ;-)

The Morning Rush
by posthumous

Comment:
Ah, those comments make me smile. I'm sure I remember commenting on this, but whetever - I certainly remember looking at it. Some photos creep up on you, some slap you round the face and demand attention, and this one - well, it's like when you suddenyl notice an old friend has been standing by your side for a while, and you don't know where they arrived from.

Track Side Nap
by jjbeguin

Comment:

Originally posted by posthumous: I love photos that depend so much on composition. They become almost pure photographs. 9

I couldn't (no really, I couldn't) have put it more succinctly myself. There is something here that no other art-form (or, if that's too loaded a phrase, then 'medium', 'means of communication' will serve) can do; that is 'composition', and an only be at its highest in a photograph.

London Life
by redmoon

Comment:
More interesting than most, although that blur effect is unsettling, and seems unneccesary - can't see what it adds to the impact of this. In fact, I can't see that it doesn't actually harm the impact - putting an image that ought to be very real into some kind of fantasy land. Almost as though you hadn't the confidence in the interest of the scene to leave it alone.

GotNuthin
by morg002

Comment:
Interesting compositionally - in that whilst you've placed the vanishing point at a theoretically strong point in frame, it still feels uncomfortable to my eye. I think that is perhaps simply because of the right to left movement of the right-hand rail - it creates a contrary dynamic to that of the rest of the movement in the frame, but without any real resolution.

Troon Scotland
by morty

Comment:
The areas of desaturation seem completely arbitrary - some yellows, some reds, iwthout any particular connection between those elements, or indeed anything to really point them up in the scene. The composition is perhaps what lets this down though - it's diofficult to see what you intended as your subject - the approaching train, the network of lines and wires, the bridges? None of those seem as weighty in frame as the open space of the platform, which is however lacking in any real visual interest.

Domestic Cat
by aznym

Comment:

Originally posted by LanndonKane: Not an oxymoron!

It helps to look at the photo, really.

Personally, I've never seen cat look quite so feral, quite so other-worldly, almost like a hole in the picture. Some of those cheesy 'wildlife' photographers could learn something from this. Top stuff, Az.