Iron Horse
by rodfulk

Comment:
What a great old engine, and the color treatment worked well to hide the lights ... I kept looking and looking to see if I could find them and I couldn't! Great subject, though I think this would have worked a bit better if you would have either chosen to go in much closer to focus in on some of the detail and the shapes and forms of the engine rather than the whole thing, or stepped back a bit farther to show us the whole engine and some of its surroundings.

Pulling in to the Station
by WriteHeart

Comment:
Nicely different composition and scene. I like how you kept the one spike anchoring the frame in the lower left, and just enough of the station to give us context to follow the line back up the track. The off kilter frame works for me, only nit is I it could use just a tad more sharpness on the foreground rail, perhaps by shooting at f/16 or smaller rather than 5.6.

End of the Line
by dsterner

Comment:
I liked how you composed this, the wide expanse of the land and the lonely engine off to the side, seeming abandoned as the ragged bushes grew up around it in the middle of nowhere, or so it seems. Nicely seen scene that should have done better in the challenge.

"Waiting To Be Humped"
by Quigley

Comment:
I like the tight crop -- its a bit different for this challenge, and worked well, particularly with the shallow DOF you used. My only nit is the headlamp cut down the middle. Shows a nice bit of detail of your train, and colors and sharpness are spot on.

The Installer
by Quigley

Comment:
nice motion blur, but no abstractness scores this poorly in this challenge. Beyond that, the lines in the background and the pnuematic hose curving in and out of the bottom edge hurt the composition. Needs a bit more midtone contrast and more detail in the blacks to really pop as a B+W. Nice try.

bushfire
by rinac

Comment:
Nice, strange, dark. 7

Manfret
by GoodEnd

Comment:
Like brush strokes across the scene. Nicely done. 7

Artist's Canvas... or Artist's Palette?? Digital Art, Circa 2009.
by kbhatia1967

Comment:
Interesting colors and forms, but nothing that holds my interest very long. 6

Lilly had dreams of going to the ball..
by whiteroom

Comment:
Like a cartoon. Nice pic. 7

Wet Entertainment
by jomari

Comment:
Nice blur, interesting shapes. Overall comp doesn't hold my attention for very long, however. 6