Succulent
by ArnaMarie

Comment:
Excellent composition.

afternoon tea
by insteps

Comment:


Awarded for the March 2013 Free Study, for the reasons identified below.

This image has caused me to stop and pay attention. That means it is in my 7-10 voting band. (Voted earlier)

Additionally, it is highly interesting/eclectic meaning it keeps me here long enough to offer a longer comment and a vote of 8 or more.

This is one of my 10s - I like it very much. Furthermore I think it enriches the DPC collective portfolio. Put simply, I wish we saw more stuff like this. Let me tell you why it pushes all the right buttons for me:

1. My word, what a composition - the structural elements of the photograph, the interplay of shadow and highlight is just perfect.

2. The environmental contextualisation is fantastic. As a viewer, we get a real sense of where we are in the building, it's structure - how the room beyond the upper door feels, how it is lit - like we know it. You've communicated a familiarity of the space despite it being strange to us. It's like we're piggy-backing on someone else's cognition - someone who feels at home here.

3. The woman downstairs, she is interacting with us but remains apart as an observer. But, again there is a degree of familiarity communicated through the scene. A palpable sense of belonging of each and every facet of the image - including our own viewpoint.

Overall, this is one of the best photos I've ever seen. Takes my all time favourite spot on DPC - or at least ties with nixter's headless swimmers.

chapeau bas
by jagar

Comment:
This image has caused me to stop and pay attention. That means it is in my 7-10 voting band. (Voted earlier)

Additionally, it is highly interesting/eclectic meaning it keeps me here long enough to offer a longer comment and a vote of 8 or more.

This is one of my 10s - I like it very much. Furthermore I think it enriches the DPC collective portfolio. Put simply, I wish we saw more stuff like this. Let me tell you why it pushes all the right buttons for me:

1. A seemingly everyday scene but with an 'aha' moment. The boy bottom right is fabulous.

2. The bold contrast and deep blacks - many (including me) would have been tempted to bring out some shadow detail. You were right not to - the inky blacks add drama.

3. The head silhouette on the right is almost surreal juxtaposed against the white of the van.

4. The poster of the model adds a touch of whimsy and grounds the image with a modern context.

5. I really like the glow too.

French title aside, the glowing monochrome has a jagaresque quality about it.

Great stuff.

Dinner for One
by Yandrosxx

Comment:
This image has caused me to stop and pay attention. That means it is in my 7-10 voting band. (Voted earlier)

Additionally, it is highly interesting/eclectic meaning it keeps me here long enough to offer a longer comment and a vote of 8 or more.

This is one of my 9s - I like it a lot. Furthermore I think it enriches the DPC collective portfolio. Put simply, I wish we saw more stuff like this. Let me tell you why it pushes all the right buttons for me:

1. Gorgeous colours - that red of the hat and the yellow paint were made for each other - especially in the warm light you have captured it.

2. The guy himself - what an interesting chap.

3. The strong contrast - I like the blocky blacks and the white of the menu(?)

4. The precise composition - this looks optimally framed to me.

Overall, a fine shot that is more than the sum of its parts.

moving the floor
by cutout

Comment:
This image has caused me to stop and pay attention. That means it is in my 7-10 voting band. (Voted earlier)

Additionally, it is highly interesting/eclectic meaning it keeps me here long enough to offer a longer comment and a vote of 8 or more.

This is one of my 8s - I like it. Furthermore I think it enriches the DPC collective portfolio. Put simply, I wish we saw more stuff like this. Let me tell you why it pushes all the right buttons for me:

1. Normally a photo of somebody else's art wouldn't do it for me - but here, your contribution is additive and inspired. The positioning of the hands and the associated blur is confounding and fascinating.

2. If I'm right about how you've done this - you've had a very small area to control and influence - a micro-frame within a frame. You 'work it' wonderfully.

3. The juxtaposition between the edge to edge sharpness and the aberrant blurry hands offers surprising dynamism.

Overall: Clever.

Looking at ewe
by P-A-U-L

Comment:
This image has caused me to stop and pay attention. That means it is in my 7-10 voting band. (Voted earlier)

Additionally, it is highly interesting/eclectic meaning it keeps me here long enough to offer a longer comment and a vote of 8 or more.

This is one of my 8s - I like it. Furthermore I think it enriches the DPC collective portfolio. Put simply, I wish we saw more stuff like this. Let me tell you why it pushes all the right buttons for me:

1. Wonderful pink and green hues - like those movies that are stylistically graded.

2. Engaging subjects - cute but not sugary.

3. Lovely composition - I particularly like where the horizon is in relation to the frame.

4. The grain/noise. Masterful.

5. The slight glow - a good processing match to the fog.

A photo that is more than the sum of its parts. Well played.

time
by jmritz

Comment:
This image has caused me to stop and pay attention. That means it is in my 7-10 voting band. (Voted earlier)

Additionally, it is highly interesting/eclectic meaning it keeps me here long enough to offer a longer comment and a vote of 8 or more.

This is one of my 8s - I like it. Furthermore I think it enriches the DPC collective portfolio. Put simply, I wish we saw more stuff like this. Let me tell you why it pushes all the right buttons for me:

1. The gloomy light and complementary blur and glow really go together to offer up a very particular mood.

2. The greenish brown tones are perfectly matched to the scene.

3. Despite the gloom, there is great light here.

4. The intriguing foreground block of shadow - like a dark apparition or a malevolent artefact appearing in the photographs of a 1970s horror movie.

Really nice work.

oh, spare me
by mariuca

Comment:
This image has caused me to stop and pay attention. That means it is in my 7-10 voting band. (Voted earlier)

Additionally, it is highly interesting/eclectic meaning it keeps me here long enough to offer a longer comment and a vote of 8 or more.

This is one of my 8s - I like it. Furthermore I think it enriches the DPC collective portfolio. Put simply, I wish we saw more stuff like this. Let me tell you why it pushes all the right buttons for me:

1. Great capture of the bleakness of the snow - before it is pretty.

2. The dainty window display almost mocking the passers-by.

3. The weirdness of the police trestles.

4. The blurry person going about their business.

Very effective.

Vision Quest
by Marfun

Comment:
This image has caused me to stop and pay attention. That means it is in my 7-10 voting band. (Voted earlier)

Additionally, it is highly interesting/eclectic meaning it keeps me here long enough to offer a longer comment and a vote of 8 or more.

This is one of my 9s - I like it a lot. Furthermore I think it enriches the DPC collective portfolio. Put simply, I wish we saw more stuff like this. Let me tell you why it pushes all the right buttons for me:

1. I like unusual portraits and there is all sorts of interest here - the moody coloration, the slight blur, the faraway expression.

2. I really like the darkness of the bottom left quadrant - it offers a counterpoint to the rest of the image.

3. I enjoy the grain/noise and how you've achieved an almost-texture-overlay effect.

Overall, this has a slight other-wordlyness that I really enjoy.

Between spaces
by Neat

Comment:
This image has caused me to stop and pay attention. That means it is in my 7-10 voting band. (Voted earlier)

Additionally, it is highly interesting/eclectic meaning it keeps me here long enough to offer a longer comment and a vote of 8 or more.

This is one of my 9s - I like it a lot. Furthermore I think it enriches the DPC collective portfolio. Put simply, I wish we saw more stuff like this. Let me tell you why it pushes all the right buttons for me:

1. So little colour, but so much of it! A magic trick to get the vibrancy of that red and bit of yellow to permeate through the entire image.

2. This bright light would scare some photographers off but here you've worked with it to tremendous effect.

3. We get the child and the shadow - excellent interplay.

4. The texture of the wall - it adds a lot. A truly blank space would have been much less interesting.

Great shot, masterfully processed.