Books Fire the Imagination
by illini75

Comment:
We sometimes fall in the trap of saying too much. In my opinion, just the girl with her teddy bear would have been enough and enhance the message (I look at this cropping from the top and left side). Nice idea

Against My Ruins
by rooum

Comment:
I like the cadence - it's almost a sonorous image. Well done

her
by kichu

Comment:
Not to be contrarian but for me the quality of this image is given by the space above the sitter's head. This somber space gives it some power and takes the image into another realm then just a portrait.

rage against the dying of the light
by tanguera

Comment:
Ah, interesting comment and explanation about the small space. It was 8 from me and, what happens to me always with good pictures I look at them a lot longer and with a much more critical eye . In context it should have been a 10 cum laude. Does not seem too democratic but one always stops in a museum for longer looks or go faster.
I think that because of the advanced editing you should have gone drastic about the cropping, cut the toe, rotate a bit to the right and have her left hand go high, or crop her right hand that is less expressive and clear…
Her posture and left hand and dress are so wonderful, the streaming light so perfect, some dust, the angle formed by the ceiling in a perfect place ... that it might be enough to crop her entire right arm, dress and toe (the shadow to appear might be too much and take the focus on the light).
A blue ribbon yes.
And for yourself you might tweak it since it's a fabulous image.

at the movies
by LevT

Comment:
Watching Kentrige

Hooded
by sempermarine

Comment:
Caught in the MIddle Ages; one of your best, for sure

That day
by Paul

Comment:
Such a Russian cinema feel here
Bump

Another chance
by Alex_Petrini

Comment:
The seal could have been lost, but, what do i know? Lovely

feel the noise
by tate

Comment:
I did not leave a comment in the first round because i tried to find the proper words. Failed. But mark it 10

Great Blue
by digifotojo

Comment:
Such melancholy and such well suited color palette
Bump