Circular
by Everyday Renee

Comment:
Quite a nice approach. maybe more contrast might have brought out the geometry more strongly, though of course it would require care to keep the grey day feel that you have. Reasonable composition, but the top rioght corner disturbs things a touch.

Equalibrium...
by prachi

Comment:
Good colour and focus, though the grass seeds maybe intrude a touch too much in front of that particular blade for neatness. You might have found a stronger compositional line if you'd been able to place it more definitely on a diagonal - especially as there isn't another parallel element to help prioritise your primary subject. Though I guess focus and the water drops go a long way to achieving that.

Rain won't stop me now!!
by Balkan

Comment:
As with some other shots of this kind, I wonder if you might not have benefitted from greater depth of field; the road and landscape are perhaps too far out of focus for comfort. I like the idea, but the streaks of the wiper blades don't seem to add much.

Rain, Rain, Go Away
by princessfriesen

Comment:
I like the style of this image, in its basic form at least; You could have nad more luck/taken more care dpeneding on the situation with the patterns of raindrops relative to the cat, and you might have usefuly used a greater depth of field - cat is just a touch too out of focus for real impact, to my eye.

Roof-less
by Madukes

Comment:
There is eventually a point at which one just has to get down to 'how does this meet the challenge?'. Kind of a boring comment, but really ...

Scars from yesterday's rain
by Knightmoves

Comment:
Has suggestions of a slightly careless approach - the number of weeds visible, that little section of sky, the lack of a sense of conclusion to the linear compositional elements. Keeping a shot whose primary impact is textural in colour like this doesn't work I think - this would be so much more impactful in black and white, and even more so had it been shot at a less harsh time of light.

Sparkle
by librodo

Comment:
Kind of fun portrait; nice to see some more black and white getting around the place, but beyond simple portraiture I don't find mich here - and, in a challenge sense, the rain element seems almost like an incidental. It would be mean to mark you down for that though, but I've never really understood what's so interesting about portraiture ...

Kneeling at a Streetlight
by ibkc

Comment:
Streetlight? I guess we must take your word for it, though I see nothing at all here to suggest such a thing. The detailing in the hands is nice, but the light on them is terribly flat, almost completely even and leaving a very two-dimensional impression. One gets a certain feeling of the kind of thing you might have been aiming for, but for me it absolutely lacks drama.

Is it over?
by Tiberius

Comment:
I like the fact that the solitary umberella wielder is also facing the opposite way from his fellows, though compositionally it's a great pity that the man behind him is by far the most eye-catchingly dressed, making it tricky to isolate the little chap visually. had this been my shot, I'm not certain I'd have entered it - or I might have done, expecting no great result - I think that's mostly because of the confusion of impacts around the umberella man: the darkness of him, the creeping of the shape of the umberella into the shape of the hillside, the massive pull to image left of the gaze of the other guys, all make it a conscious effort to keep one's eyes on that sole individual, and weaken the ipact of the image. You get points though for black and white, and for having I think pushed yourself towards at least an interesting idea.

After the rain, comes freedom
by erainman

Comment:
Your title hints most strongly at that bird being your point of interest, but it's quite a long way down the list of the things one forst sees when looking at this image - after the skeleton of that boat, the people, the buildings in the background. The light is quite enjoyable, but there seems really to be one band of complex overlapping things, and then the quiet light of the rest of the image.