Monumental
by bryanbrazil

Comment:
I'm not getting - and I'm more certain that most other ovters will eb in the same boat - what shadows have to do with this image in a way they don't with any photograph whatsoever. Obviously, all mono images absolutely depend upon shadow, or perhaps rather light and shade, otherwise they would be simple grey planes, but I think to take that as your launching-point is to wilfully not engage with the idea of the challenge, and tus the point of DPC.

Nice enough image, though perhaps lacking any real fascination - and hardly an unknown scene, really: though you've given us a strong sense of the 'suspension' element of the bridge, which is good to see.

Still Life With Bottle
by melismatica

Comment:
For an image that depends on a subtle graduation of light and shade, your border is extrordinarily imposing and clunky; your handling of the highlights of this image doesn't seem to be in your control either - and the broad white band of that border just adds proof to the sense that you've taken the highlights too far and lost all sense of detail. Compositionally, it might well have worked extremely well, but it shows evidence of not understanding whay exposure was required and controlling that in post-processing. You have, nevertheless, achieved a strong sense of heat, which might have stoof the image in good stead if the subject demanded it - but a still life - I can't see how this feeling of out-of-control exposure sits with the image you're presenting. Shows a strong sense fo composition, spatially, also.

A good attempt, I'd say; but needing more expertise to be brought to bear.

Petals Cast Shadows
by Dave Gordon

Comment:
Yes, they do. Beyond that ... well, I don't see a photographic point to this. Without shadow our images are a collection of colours, so I think this is hardly getting into the spirit of this challenge. Composition is poor also - a simple documenting of a bloom, of which there are many many thousnad versions, and there is nothing special here I'm afraid.

Surrounded by shadows
by Ragga2000

Comment:
Interesting, arresting image; the sudden shift into sharpness grabs at the eye, and that sharpness itself is very well handled. Can't imagine that you'll hit the old challenge nail very squarely on the head though, but not a bad image at all.

Zen
by Tej

Comment:
I'm not sure there's enough sense of peaceful composition here to really njustify your title; the shadows are rather hectic, and actually the blalnce of the positioning of the two leaves or whatever is slightly uncomfortably - quite apart from the zen idea of the manipulation of materials being outside my understanding of the groove. There is, however, a certain feel of lightness to it - down to your exemplary capture of a sense of brightness without blasting the highlights - which fits your title.

Creatively "capture" a shadow.......
by dabidejpn

Comment:
I like the idea, and the blown-out highlights add a kind of 'surveillance' feel to the image, which adds some drama. Overall, perhaps just a bit too fantasy and unlikely a situation for my taste - I find it kind of emotion-free and meaningless, but I'm with the goove of it, certainly.

Dinner?
by TonyT

Comment:
A pleasantly strange image - though, overall, perhaps you might have done more to brighten the whole thing - I appreciate the darkness' point in this image, but it's perhaps a touch over-done. Not convinced the shadow element is terribly important to it, either.

157452 - Broadway Tower
by Artan

Comment:
I like your self-analysis of the shot, and the differences with the original Ian. I would quibble with only one thing - you hint at a distinction between 'graphical interplay' and 'photography' where no such difference exists, I think: the point being, that as your camera renders this scene into two dimensions, you are making a graphic of it - two dimensional shapes; it's the interplay of that and the recognisably 'real' world that proides most photographic interest in most photographs.

Ticket to Ride
by Tuckersmom

Comment:
Gorgeous photography - Erwitt-esque, and there's no higher compliment from me. The crop might be a little tight, really, but that's all. Bravo. And she looks so damn miserable - the greatest saleswoman on earth ;-)

"Eleanor Rigby"
by zarzo

Comment:
Nice shot. Love the feeling of sneakiness brought to it by the inclusion of that girder; and I always felt there was a certain soi-disant elegance to ER too.

Returning: it's stayed in my mind, this shot, so I'm just knocking you up that one remaining point. One of the two genuinely fascinating images in this challenge.