The Dying Habbit
by MAK

Comment:
Visually cluttered (that vent in the lower right corner, the door breaking up the background, the blurry foreground. Nothing particularly interesting about this scene. It shows a habit but not in a new or interesting way.

Forgetting to Clean the Drain
by binkyat3

Comment:
This is a habit but this photo doesn't show it in a new or interesting way. Besides meeting the challenge a photo has to work on its own as a visually pleasing work.

Going Against the Flow
by GP

Comment:
I tried but I just could not see what you were going for here. I don't see how this meets the challenge. How is it a habit? There isn't much happening aesthetically either.

Tulip
by Ecce_Signum

Comment:
There are some weird globular shapes to the left of the flower that are extremely distracting. The machinery (a lawnmower?) in the background is also distracting. Nice focus and detail on the flower.

The Dawn Of Time
by wkoffel

Comment:
It's dead center but the subject is dull.

Edited for clarity: Sorry, I was looking over your entries and I saw my rather blunt comment. I think my problem with this image had to do with the relevence of the watch and the dart board. I had originally meant to make a comment to this effect. I don't know why I came up with something so terse (perhaps I was feeling grumpy about my own entry which I regretted entering pretty immediately) From a strictly graphic view, this composition is interesting. It may have worked better if the dart board had been a bit more colorful. As it is there is very little interest in terms of color. The black provides the only real contrast. The texture provides some interest. I think my biggest issue is that there doesn't seem to be any reason to have the watch there except it happens to fit smack dab in the middle and looks kind of cool. Sometimes looking cool is good enough (that was what my '40' photo was all about). I think if this were much larger it would have more impact.

Message edited by author 2004-06-04 00:03:35.

Snail
by Pooba

Comment:
This is a nice shot. The hot spot to the left is not great. There is also a bit to much highlight at the center of the snail. Which brings me to the challenge guidelines. They specified dead center. To my eye, the main visual element of this shot is the center of the spiral. You've placed that to the right of the frame.

The Freshest Juice
by bruski

Comment:
This is a bit too dark and overcropped. It seems rather claustrophobic.

Standing Still
by oskar

Comment:
This is a nice shot but the main visual element (to my eye, the rock in the foreground) is only horizontally centered.The challenge guidelines specified dead center so, in fairness, I shaved a point of for that. I gave it a five. The water looks great but the rocks are very contrasty.

Crawling Around My Life
by mirdonamy

Comment:
It's centered but the subject is really uninteresting. Maybe if it wear a real spider. The choice of a sweater or afgahn for the background was kind of odd.

Mountain BlueBells
by dacrazyrn

Comment:
The white space in the background is visually distracting. You could have cropped it and still kept the bluebells centered (except for perhaps the most dogmatic voters).