spin
by VitaminB

Comment:
oh, this is marvelous!! (voting later, perusing now) 10

Lend me your ear, I'll lend you my lungs.
by miked00d

Comment:
What a bizarre photo. Very intriguing. Lots to digest. (voting later, just perusing now.) 7

Walking the Dog
by FrankRobinson

Comment:
oooh!! I love this shot! (not voting 'til later, but I have to add it to my favs.)

ok -- now I'm voting. 10! (it would work for s-curve as well :)

Polar Bears Arrive at Columbus Zoo
by timfythetoo

Comment:
not voting yet, but this is a great capture and a perfect photojournalism subject. Nicely done.

Follow the Sun
by Jutilda

Comment:
Every time I see this, I absolutely love it! I wish I could fav favorites!

T h e F i n c h
by SpotlightStudio

Comment:
I really like the idea, but not the reality.

First of all, I don't think the desaturated works with this shot. Usually when you desaturate, you just leave one thing in color. By leaving the hat and the bird, your eye keeps traveling back and forth and has no place to rest. Also, the fence, the person and the post are desaturated to b&w, but the tree and the left part of the fence end up kind of a sickly green that's quite distracting. I think it would have been more effective just partially desaturating the shot. Leaving the colors, just having them quite muted and then saturating the yellows.

There are so many elements: the post, the tree, the person, the finch, the fence, the lines of a spider web, that you eye wanders too much around the photo. A tighter crop removing a good portion of the post might help bring you eye back in.

The hand moving up to the bird is actually quite interesting, but it's very crowded by the hat and the string. Moving your model a little more to the right and having her reach a little more might isolate the hand and add some interest and crowd the picture a little less.

I hope this helps some... :D

The Dragger's Drum
by Bear_Music

Comment:
I couldn't make up my mind about the background. The land in the distance added to part of the story, yet it kept drawing my eye, and I didn't find a lot of interest once it settled there. I gave it a 6, but I think it would have been a 7 with a tighter crop. There's already so much to peruse--the rope, the bird, the rust, the shapes, and I think that land added on too many things and split the interest.

Your outtake, while nice, doesn't have the interest of the dragger's drum, imo. (maybe because there's a bird in it :)

Snow people
by Melethia

Comment:
This shot gets better and better the more I see it. I wish we could fav our favorites!

Squirrel Inder Glass!
by kawesttex

Comment:
hahaha!!

Driving Rain
by Lydia

Comment:
Contrived!? You've got to be kidding! I saw a scene like this the other day. But they're so common, I didn't bother photographing it. :P

It makes me wonder what your other shot was, though. :D