Boats and the City
by MargaretNet

Comment:
Got a 9 from me. It is a lovely one; boats like brush strokes.

Into the Valley
by hesitant

Comment:
Well done on your ribbon. I really like that glowing look you've pulled off.

Spin Casting
by Brent_S

Comment:
Well done on your ribbon. Very well executed and presented.

Mid October
by ursula

Comment:
This is pretty.

Roman d'Amour
by todbedy

Comment:


Awarded for the December 2012 Free Study

vacation
by 4trtone

Comment:
I'm going through the entries, stopping at those images I feel have had the benefit of an unconventional eye and dwelling a little longer to try to see and appreciate what you saw. This is one of those images.

Positives: A country scene turned a little dark - I like that; it feels cinematic; we wait for the camera to pan upwards and sweep leftwards in a curve. The tones are really good too - emphasising the oppressive feel of the subject matter. The depth of field is perfect too - the house soft and looming...

Critical stuff: Nope.

Overall: Very well made.

look inside
by posthumous

Comment:
I'm going through the entries, stopping at those images I feel have had the benefit of an unconventional eye and dwelling a little longer to try to see and appreciate what you saw. This is one of those images.

Positives: Goodness, this is brave. Blur, grain, in-your-face coloration, ambiguity of subject - all ensuring that you put distance between yourself and the admirers of eye-candy-cliche. I like it (despite liking a bit of eye candy myself), I like how it engages the imagination - for me, this is definitely neurological in its suggestion.

Critical stuff: Given the joy of engaging the imagination - I wish you had left us with a less steering title.

Overall: Powerful.

december sunset
by bspurgeon

Comment:
I'm going through the entries, stopping at those images I feel have had the benefit of an unconventional eye and dwelling a little longer to try to see and appreciate what you saw. This is one of those images.

Positives: Love how you have thrown away the colour option to give us something rather deeper - a concentration of form and light and perspective. What make this is the way the whole thing is compositionally balanced and how you have avoided the ends of the grey scale range.

Critical stuff: Nope

Overall: Characterised by the subtlety of a master at work.

Rumple
by RKT

Comment:
I'm going through the entries, stopping at those images I feel have had the benefit of an unconventional eye and dwelling a little longer to try to see and appreciate what you saw. This is one of those images.

Positives: A Lensbaby cat! As someone well versed in dissolving the legs of my own pets in blurry goodness, I like what you are doing here. I particularly like the way the cat is peering down as if eyeing with suspicion the diminishing clarity of the environment underneath. Lovely ones too and through the use of the curtain, a resonance with the work of RKT. As a self-confessed groupie of her work - that's always a good thing in my eye.

Critical stuff: Nope

Overall: Lovely stuff.

jam session
by GiorgioBaruffi

Comment:
I'm going through the entries, stopping at those images I feel have had the benefit of an unconventional eye and dwelling a little longer to try to see and appreciate what you saw. This is one of those images.

Positives: You have captured a lovely sense of casual candidness here - it has a really relaxed feeling about it. Much of this sense of calm is due to your lovely coloration. I certainly want to know more about the people - you've managed not to lose them in the photographic trickery of reflection and leading lines. There's a danger such a precise composition would make the image 'of the image' rather than 'of the people' but you've avoid that through a great sense of balance.

Critical stuff. Nope

Overall: Masterful group portrait.