Rush
by power47

Comment:
Motion blur and missed focus I think - whatever, doesn't matter too much to me; I like this loads!! 9

struggle
by Deen

Comment:
Meets the challenge in spades and is utterly compelling! 10

World Windows
by posthumous

Comment:
I was one of the tens. This really shouldn't be at the back of the pack but at least it means that my image is in good company! (though mine is nowhere near this quality).

Tenderness
by Jedusi

Comment:
Extraordinary composition. Really excellent work.

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by Coley

Comment:
Great image - I'd love to see the workflow on this conversion.

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by nixter

Comment:
Amazing stuff!!

Simple Joy
by Covert_Oddity

Comment:
Wow - I love this.

Droplet
by Paul

Comment:

Originally posted by Jac: Nice waterdrop. But I have no idea how small or large it is because I don't know how big/small the leaf is. It looks huge to me actually.

Interesting perspective that I hadn't considered - for me, the droplet itself offers a clue to the scale of the image. The radius of curvature caused by the surface tension places a limit on its size.

Two Girls and Her Cat
by pointandshoot

Comment:
5.4419 and 240th out of 412; you got a 9 from me so I'd like to offer some more recognition for this work:

Cooper River Marina
by mgarsteck

Comment:
OK, I'm going through the Free Study submissions, purposefully finding those images I think are shot with a less conventional eye - this is one of those images! Thanks for offering something that isn't just DPC friendly eye-candy (though of course there's nothing wrong with eye-candy):

Positives: Wow, what a busy image! Of course the busyness IS the image, this creates an abstract pattern which effectively creates an overlay effect onto the scene making this shot more than the sum of its parts. You were quite right to offer this in monochrome and your manipulation of the contrast emphasises the oh-so-important vertical lines in this shot. Your placement of the boat towards the left side of the image is critical to the shot - to borrow a boating metaphor from your image, it anchors the shot. It is that boat the eye latches onto and it acts as a primer to the rest of the virtually encoded image, allowing the brain to make sense of the rest by offering the vital context of the scene.

Critical stuff: I'm not sure I have any; I do note that there is very little that is actually white in the image and I wonder how a tweak in levels might look, but then it would be a different image and this one is just fine.

Overall: An image that keeps the eye and brain busy and one which manages to almost create an impressionist image from an 'ordinary' scene. Great job.