Waiting for Mum
by RiderGal

Comment:
This is classic, very crisp and clear, though when I was that age, that sort of sweet look (if it appeared at all) would have lasted only until the camera and adult took their attention elsewhere. :)

"The Calm before the Dorm"
by Morgan

Comment:
AUGH! Okay, bad puns aside, this is an absolutely gorgeous shot. Nice location, nice angle and composition - like the hint of modern buildings in the background, and the way the older ones dominate the scene. The people in this image really help it feel like this is a living place, a place that may soon be very busy and even now has some activity.

A Teacher's Work Is Never Done
by magnetic9999

Comment:
Classic images for school...the backlighting is a little distracting here, washing out the edges of the apple and pencil - perhaps a background to keep the glare down might have helped, or changing the angle of the shots. Really nice composition.

Time to Immunize!
by JC_Homola

Comment:
Okay, first, this is a seriously unnerving shot. *grins* I like the dramatic blue lighting - and the crisp clarity of the needle and stream of liquid. Compositionally this is very strong - showing just what you need to, just how you need to, to make the point.

They're Back
by amsmyth

Comment:
There's a back-to-school sign if I ever saw one. I think you may have captured too much of the surroundings, though - all the road and stuff along it in the left side of the photo is, as far as I can tell, irrelevant to the topic of the photo, but it's very distracting and draws the eye away from the sign, even as bold as the sign is. I don't know if it would have been possible to get the shot at an angle that showed more of the school grounds and still showed the sign clearly; if not, cropping out the "road noise" would have tightened the shot up a bit.

Yawn... My favourite time of the year!
by ofjord

Comment:
Study session! The composition and mood of this photo are great. That said, I think your lighting has done you a huge disservice. The light behind the girl's head has dimmed her face and the whole scene somewhat, and brings out a piece of the background to leave us wondering, when I think it might have been better left dark, and nothing to distract us from the studying. At the same time, the foreground light, while it brings out the faces of the subjects well enough, is blindingly bright itself and has glared out all or most details of the book or notebook in front of the boy, and also of his nearer sleeve - you can even only barely see the crease at the elbow.

I think I'd have tried turning off the background light, and moving the foreground light out of the shot and/or finding a softer foreground light.

Homework Blues
by lisaseiwert

Comment:
Hee. A classic mood for this one. Nice crisp focus. I think I would have either lit the background or cropped the image closer, though. It's hard to tell where the child's head leaves off and the background begins, because it's so dark, and the slightly-lighter impressions of curtain and wall in the upper right are distracting.

The ride
by Nukkta

Comment:
This is a great angle on a bus. I'm not so sure it's a great angle for the camera, though - notice the odd patterns on the stop sign especially, and to a lesser degree the artifacts on the silver window-pieces. That may be because the image quality is lower than it has to be (under 100 k, when it could go to 150) or may be a limitation of the camera; I don't know. The sky against the bus is a nice effect, though, the moreso because it isn't blindingly washed out and yet the bus is not too dark against it.

The last plunge this summer
by chalcone

Comment:
This is a lovely scene, and the picture's quite nice, though the low light definitely shows in the blurring of the diver. There is a jaggy look about the hills that may be compression artifact, but the colors are gorgeous.

Student Transport Vessels
by christyrack

Comment:
Definitely a back to school sort of topic (and that looks like a fairly pretty place, as far as school bus parking lots go). The mirror I find distracting, presentting blurry busses in the foreground against crisply focussed ones in the background - I think this might have been stronger without it. The sky's awfully bright/washed out, but I don't see how that could be countered without darkening the buses too much.