The Play of Light and Dark
by PennyStreet

Comment:
The lights and darks play off each other nicely. Not sure if you had a angle further left to get more of the buildings in the frame and less sky. I think that would have had more impact.

Art and Function
by Lydia

Comment:
I like the contrast of the art and non-art. Reminds me of the art installation that was a chair and my friend sat in it without realizing and got yelled at. Much of the image is someone else art and thus makes it harder to judge.

Forward and backward
by Neat

Comment:
This one is cool and I spent some fun moments looking at all the action and people. The positioning of the sun is really great. These type of scenes are hard to control, having all 5 running would have been awesome.

Basic
by DCrest01

Comment:
Very simple and very powerful. You really nailed the lighting and the symmetry here. I wonder how painting the wood parts black and white would have worked out to really go all black and white.

Spring break
by LevT

Comment:
Three girls for one guy. Lucky him.

Nice bit of seeing here to capture him in stride between the two posters. This is especially true with the right model, who is looking at him. A lot of the image is another persons photos, so that is always harder to score. Also watch your tilt, while the street is tilted, I think the image should be leveled according to the window frames.

London eras
by Paul

Comment:
Nice contrast between the old and the new, rounded/spired and flat. I think the sky/fog let you down on this one. On a sunny day with nicer sky this would have much more impact.

rapeseed fields
by Tiberius

Comment:
Wonderful layers of color and texture here. I can feel the warmth. The challenge topic is not as strong here as many of the other entries.

Urk
by Azrifel

Comment:

Originally posted by Azrifel: Originally posted by glad2badad: Is this a for real street? Feels like a historical site. Very colorful for sure. A bit soft all around. It is a historical street rebuild in an open air museum in Enkhuizen. It is soft because I cannot get good sharpening to work on small images. It is sharp as a knife out of the camera and auto-resized on facebook. Just not when I edit them myself.

It is a little hard to tell but I think the focus point is on the buildings behind the lady (as the roof tiles look sharp). Couple that with an aperture of f5.6 and your subject and all the foreground elements would be out of focus. f16 or f22 would have helped keep the whole scene sharp - bumping your iso to keep a shutter speed assuming you were handholding.

Poplar Dynamics
by JulietNN

Comment:
I like the contrast of the blue sky and the brown/green of the foreground. The sky has a diagonal streak to it that looks a little odd to me.

Battle and Surrender
by markwiley

Comment:
One of my top picks. This is a really good bit of seeing to see the contrast of the top/bottom.