Light for a Rainy Day
by mickisdaddy

Comment:
I like the idea of this, rather than your execution - I'm not sure how you might make it more impactful, but a couple of things stand out for me immediately: your depth of field is very shallow, such that the candles are not particularly in focus, along with the rainy window. Also there's a lack of a feel of contrast - you've exposed well enough for the light of the candles themselves, but the light beyond that is rather flat and uninteresting - perhaps simply waiting until the day outside were a little darker might have done it.

Electrifying Rock!
by tomz

Comment:
f/32 or something, I guess. The mad depth of field has impact.

Dependant and Plugged 24/7
by tmph

Comment:
Well, er, nicely lit I suppose.

Tijuana Border
by captkaeler

Comment:
Interesting - arresting, and more so than many images in this challenge. Actually, I don't get the connection to the challenge, whihch ought to be an issue, but I'm so bored of shots of those damn globe things that anything else seems like a balm, and then this also has social and political elements to it that just strike one immediately as 'proper' photography. There's a sense of some mad processing around the ewdges of the tree, but it remains one of the more interesting images I've seen today.

Force
by renefunk

Comment:
Another one! The best so far, I think, in purely technical terms. It's hard to see beyone the purely technical in shots of these things anymore.

Electric Lunch
by Strikeslip

Comment:
Another one! Mind you, at least there's no carefully lit human finger activating this.

Rapunzel's Greatest Desire
by nds

Comment:
Has a certain quality of 1950's advertising photography - perhaps simple the idea that a hairdryer might be such a sought-after item, but I'd like to think its actually the tonality and composition. That's no small compliment for a technical exercise - there were some great photographers working in advertising in the 1950s.

Wind Powered Electricity
by Diana

Comment:
What a marvellously bizarre non-DPC photograph. After the usual string of attempts at shiny happy photography, this makes a refreshing change.

Dead Trees' Epitaph
by SteveDunster

Comment:
I like the steely-grey feel of the sky - has that kind of pre-storm greasy feeling. I don't think you've served the strange geometry of the pylon particularly well with this point of view however: its arms might as well not be there, although nevertheless they're present enough to know that they've not been shown to effect.

Let me glow
by romysree

Comment:
More interesting than most. God knows why, but it has a certain south-american feeling to it - could just be the beat-up ceiling/wall, or the flies, or whetever they are. Maybe bare bulbs just always remind me of certain novels and films. Whatever. Kind of nice to be evocative with such a simple image.