Urban Garden
by bob350

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: Interesting image, interesting title. The purple area looks like it is something that has been embedded with a block of green glass. I like how it looks transparent.

Critical stuff: One of those where the image interest tops out pretty quickly.

Overall: I quite like this image but I suspect many others aren't not convinced.

cold comfort for change
by ubique

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: I like the idea behind this shot - the semi-silhouettes, the overt grain and vignette, and the stark light. I wonder what their story is too.

Critical stuff: Your editing choices may be seen by some to be a little odd.

Overall: An image that benefits from the understanding that less is sometimes / often more.

[Not sure why my comment got truncated - finished it off now]

Message edited by author 2010-11-09 04:00:22.

Stroll
by mBastin

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: Great sense of scale here and your blue monochrome treatment works really well. The figure adds load of interest, without him the image would (I think) fail.

Critical stuff: I think a less tight crop on the bottom would've been better.

Overall: More than the sum of its parts. I like that.

Statuesque
by JuliBoc

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: Great story here - I particularly like the suggestion of a second figure to the left of the door. I'm pretty convinced this would work nearly so well in colour - I think you've made a great choice going with monochrome.

Critical stuff: nothing much.

Overall: An interesting image benefit from just enough ambiguity.

deliquesce
by 2mccs

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: I can see there is some appeal in the form and structure of this subject. I think the subtle sharpness top left cascading to blurry smoothness elsewhere in the image works pretty well.

Critical stuff: the grey tones and the overall lack of form leave the brain hungry for interest. I just don't think there is enough here to engage a viewer.

Overall: Just a bit too 'reduced-to-essence' for me.

Harvest Time
by Jean

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 lovely study of these bikes, your chosen tones work so well too. I like the broken ground textures a lot too. Your overall composition, with the bikes slightly high in the frame, works really well.

Critical stuff: Nothing really.

Overall: Nicely made.

Tribute to M.C. Escher.: Self-Portrait in Spherical Mirror
by gadion

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: Quirky, self-indulgent and quite wonderful! The tones are excellent the distorted fisheye appearance is really effective. you and your background context are full of interest - lots to explore.

Critical stuff: Nothing

Overall: A highly interesting unconventional self-portrait.

albrecht & giselle
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: Lovely stuff this - makes me want to watch a slow motion video of this with very loud classical music. The balance between clarity and blurry dynamism is excellent.The detail on the feathers of the left bird is astonishing.

Critical stuff: Nothing.

Overall: Very nice indeed.

Twosome
by h2

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: This false colour works wonderfully well and provides a great backdrop for the silhouettes. The figures add bags of interest and the obscured sun is the cherry on the cake.

Critical stuff: Nothing.

Overall: A very effective image.

City
by bvy

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: Brave blurriness, brave greyness too. It's like you've actually tried to make an anti-picture here. Reduce the scene to such banality that the drip marks on the glass become (by virtue of being removed from the banality of the city) the most interesting thing to gaze upon.

Critical stuff really: It is hard to 'like' the image - though I'm not sure we are supposed too.

Overall: In the conventional world, the photo becomes our guide, showing us a point of view and a way of viewing - it pulls out aspects of the world, frames them and makes them explicit and special. You've done the opposite here - "Don't look at the world"; "avert you gaze"; "It's not worth your attention".... An 'anti-picture'. Bold and thought-provoking.