The Turks
by kiwiness

Comment:
Nice work Gary: I liked this muchly. More please!

A Hard Way to Make a Buck
by bvoi

Comment:
Marvellous - and robbed in the voting.

Man at Bus Stop with Advertisement
by Keith Maniac

Comment:
Top work Chris: leaving my own aside, I thought this should win, and I'm surprised and delighted to see it so highly rated. And just 31/10,000ths behind, er, mine ;-)

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House
by alexgarcia

Comment:
I'm not sure that you haven't slightly fallen between two stones here; it has elements of trying to show two things: the house in itsw location, and the details and textures of it's walls and the shadow-play of a moment of light. The location aspect doesn't work too well - you're just too close, too cropped maybe; and yet the details side isn't so effective for me for the opposite reason - not close enough. What seems immedaitely clear is that the real power in the image could be framed in an area comprising of the window image left, the street sign, the pipework and the shadows assoiated with them: I think that would tell almost as much, if not more for the sake of the detail, this full-face image. The tightness of the cropping to the roof and chimney doesn't help you - makes it feel like the whole thing couldn't be got it and this was the next best: perhaps sometimes all you actually need is a detail to illuminate the whole story?

The conversion seems OK - though I might like a touch more graduation in the shaded areas, you have the highlights well under sontrol it seems. The right hand section of wall seems unnaturally dark, where it should surely be as bright as the area around the street sign? I think that disturbs the threee-dimensionality of the image a little ...

reporter
by arsenal

Comment:
Interesting approach and idea - almost brilliant, if only there were not the conflict of the two visible faces I think: if she were a fraction clearer, more isolated, and the guy behind her more hidden then it would be a moment of genius - as it is, I think it's a shot that's nearly great. The perils of trying to catch the fleeting moment is so often that 'close' just isn't enough: that's what makes the discipline so frustrating, so rewarding.

Illuminati
by timlu

Comment:
Love the parallel of the raised arms in the two figures. Sense of location is strong, light is very good. There's a kind of mad story to it which I like.

Tracking Mud for Body Cooling !
by DAWAR

Comment:
This is kind of fun - despite the quality issues, which are quite extensive and I think which will hurt your score (the detail, sense of lacking focus) - it still has an interesting dynamic and a certain lightly mad appeal.

A Hard Way to Make a Buck
by bvoi

Comment:
It's the chain-saw, isn't it? The rest is oh so common these days, but that saw ...

coffee and the paper
by TJ

Comment:
Like the high contrast, but I think you've los a little control here slightly - those blown highlights on the arms and hands, and the extent of the shadow areas would have repaid a touch more control of processing I think.

Hope it hits the bugger!
by MistyMucky

Comment:
Despite the title, and a slight sense of this being overly blue in the colour temperature stakes, I really like the moment, your framing, and the dynamic. This is being so often missed in this challenge, which seems to be reverting to a simple portrait collection - the preciousness of the moment, the action, rather than the simple page of the face.