a view from downtown
by perkygoth

Comment:
base 1: 1/1; challenge: 3/3; technical: 1/3; aesthetics: 0/3; total: 5
Qualifies for challenge, but no real visual appeal to me. Visible JPG artifacts in the clouds and the lamps seem out of focus. Timing is everything here and the picture would have worked much better with a more interesting sky.

Old and new
by carina

Comment:
base 1: 1/1; challenge: 3/3; technical: 1/3; aesthetics: 2/3; total: 7
Sky seems blown out, building slants to the left and parking structure? to the right is also tilted. I LOVE the reflection. I find it interesting that the arches to the left look purple but the reflection of the building shows it to be gray.

Cowgirl at Sunset
by Firstrich1

Comment:
Excuse me, but how could ANYONE give this a 1? This is an incredible shot. Congratulations on your well deserved ribbon.

Urban Sprawl
by mullany1957

Comment:
base 1: 1/1; challenge: 1/3; technical: 2/3; aesthetics: 1/3; total: 5
Shadow areas too dark. I get more of a sense of a country drive than of urban sprawl though.

Twins At Angles
by space amoeba

Comment:
base 1: 1/1; challenge: 3/3; technical: 1/3; aesthetics: 1/3; total: 6
Gray tone nice, but not harsh enough and too dark in spots. Could use some perspective adjustment. Certainly meets the challenge, but no real 'wow' factor.

Hepner Hall
by CDS

Comment:
base 1: 1/1; challenge: 2/3; technical: 2/3; aesthetics: 1/3; total: 6
Urban landscapes -- description called for "buildings" -- a bit picky, but I see only one. I don't get the sense of 'urban' here. The photo seems off center or asymmetric without meaning to. You should have been a couple more steps to the right to look squarely through the door and then make sure you are equidistant between the edge of the photo and the towers on both left and right. Sky upper right is blown out too -- not bad enough to knock off another tech point though. I like the flowers in the foreground. Nice touch.

Have a Coke
by rbrownlo

Comment:
base 1: 1/1; challenge: 3/3; technical: 2/3; aesthetics: 1/3; total: 7
A little fuzzy under the coca-cola sign -- hard to really find anything wrong. Seeing the top of one tower, but not the other -- maybe including just a bit more of the top would have helped the aesthetics for me.

Urban Blue
by Dufus

Comment:
base 1: 1/1; challenge: 2/3; technical: 2/3; aesthetics: 1/3; total: 6
Nice sky shot, but low silhouette of buildings doesn't shout urban to me.

Itasca Downtown
by pitsaman

Comment:
base 1: 1/1; challenge: 3/3; technical: 2/3; aesthetics: 2/3; total: 8
The colors were pushed a bit too much for me. Specifically shown in the red blob foreground bush.

The house of God
by oskar

Comment:
base 1: 1/1; challenge: 3/3; technical: 2/3; aesthetics: 3/3; total: 9
Walls slightly blown out, but otherwise great.