Pensive Sentinel
by banmorn

Comment:
Great composition. I just wish that the photo was cut from the top a bit more, to the top of the second column and get more of the suffocating feeling. 9

Thoreau
by bspurgeon

Comment:
Thoreau as interpreted by Turner, perhaps. Splendid picture although I am not convinced that it can stand for "Sentinel" unless we go via Thoreau's writings. 9

Sentinel
by AllenP

Comment:
One can't go wrong with THE gargoyle. Kudos for climbing all the stairs! Please ask them to provide an elevator. Each time I go I twist the right knee!
I wish the photo did not have the border that makes it too much like a beautiful post card: "been there, done that". 8

Guarding the light...
by anniek

Comment:
Great idea for the challenge. Good title. Original. 9

Take me There
by mariuca

Comment:
Many thanks to all for the comments.
Yes, it was a candid photo. Thus multiple flaws. But I never use models and am very shy to photograph people although, the ones in museums are too tempting to pass. I have this fantasy that I can ask people in the subway to tell me their life stories. The only thing I do is peek at their reading. And my neck got crooked.

Ring of fire
by marbo

Comment:
..."I fell for you like a child ..." Johnny Cash

Domesticated Elements
by Ductyl

Comment:
A straightforward approach with clarity of concept. The picture lacks something though - perhaps a bit more poetry or a better focus. Between a 9 for idea and a 4 or 5 for photo = 7

Some say the world will end in fire, some say in ice.
by jjbeguin

Comment:
Another hard to beat picture! My second 10 in this challenge! Reminds me of the Russian director Tarkowsky whose name I don't use lightly!

Elemental Food
by ray_mefarso

Comment:
Why didn't I think of this? The idea surpasses by a notch the picture, as still life goes. 9

little by little
by rla30129

Comment:
candid photo, but I am lost on the elements