Shooting foliage
by lei_73

Comment:
I've never seen purple asphalt before, but it works well here as part of a fantasy color palette of iridescent autumn. Nicely done.

Second Tuesday Every Month
by Lydia

Comment:
This is a strong image for me. Didn't score this challenge, but would have ranked this high. Put me in the camp of not disturbed by the gradient colors, and clear that the railing in front of faces is the distraction. To me the color cast is a counter balance to the sameness of the repeating balconies. There the same, but with a different mood in each one. I'd expect the inhabitants of each unit to be in some way defined by the colors. Congrats and kudos!

TAXI !!!!!
by mariuca

Comment:
I think the interesting thing about this for me was the time it took me to even notice the critters. I do find the man on the right to be dominating my attention

Coming soon to a theater near you
by markwiley

Comment:
I'm a decent speller, but as with Beetle, I'm a careless reader. Didn't notice misspellings. Didn't score with any language penalties. What I like most here is the isolation of the subject, even in the context of a subway car. It really works for the title film title concept. Not sure I'd want to sit through it, though.

The Night Life
by Melethia

Comment:
Well done! Fascinating choices in color, blending, still and motion. Keeps me looking.

leave it
by mitalapo

Comment:
This is one of the photos that just reaches out and grabs my attention. Calls me back, and stops me in my tracks as I'm looking through the challenge entries to vote or review after rollover. The quality of light and shadow plays well with the textures, and oddly, the busyness of the composition in no way detracts from the central focus on the full leaf in the center lower third. Remarkable.

The Historic Keene Barn
by Neil

Comment:
This is really lovely, Neil. I was one of your modal votes of 6. An interesting tableau that's well composed and provide a great sense of place. I wish the barn was more isolated as the subject somehow. Perhaps by selective lightening use of the radial filter in LR. The greens also appear to be a bit strongly saturated for my eyes. I'm curious, too, if your POV was purposeful to have the outline of the roof arc on the right side of the barn align with the arc of the hills beyond it.

Geology
by nam

Comment:
Congrats on the Blue, Nikki. I'm commenting here as part of the Post Challenge Volunteer thread activities.

I'm generally not a fan of extreme HDR images that go beyond tone-mapping to stylized processing. For me, this shot sits right on the edge of enough vs. too much. I scored it in the top 3rd of entries, but not among my favorites. Here's why:

The lines and subject matter are terrific - nature verging on abstract. The tonal range is good with details at every level of bright/dark, but as a result, the image lacks contrast. The brightest spot on the image is on the left side between the dark clouds and the hills. My eye is drawn to a hole in the sky. I'm also not a fan of the blue/indigo cast in the clouds, I'd be curious what warming up the tones in the skies would do.

This is obviously a minority opinion based on the blue ribbon and terrific score. If I were you, I'd completely ignore my comment and revel in the accolades. It's a lovely image that I might have processed a bit differently. I pretty certain it would have scored lower, too!

Nero's nightmare
by Neat

Comment:
Hmm. I didn't vote on this challenge, but had I done so, I suspect your bell curve might have been more perfect with the addition of a 9.

So, what's the distraction? The wing? In my eyes, the wing provides a context and form that defines the composition. The texture overlay? The texture is effective in creating mood, but not sure it's distracting? The deep blacks at the bottom of the image obscure the landform below allowing conjecture... I'm not the only one who saw Rome below - likely due to the title. I'm with pixelpig about the distraction. The title's the most distracting part. Lovely work!

underpass
by NiallOTuama

Comment:
This style is so immediately identifiable, even for someone like me who is notoriously bad at guessing who's work I'm looking at. I'm noting this because not only is is recognizable, it's quite appealing to me. I gotta agree with Georges about the woman with the bag. Frankly the tilt isn't a problem - the problems you'd create by eliminating it would include creation of a not-really-symmetrical, symmetrical image. Lovely work!