Cedar Creek
by Niten

Comment:
I wish there were a more organized pattern to the light splashes. as it is, it just looks like scribbling with a flashlight.

"I guess that's why they call it the blues, Time on my hands could be time spent with you"
by SDW

Comment:
the photo is beautiful. but I do not see how it meets the challenge.

Rings of Fire
by Jono

Comment:
have you seen Nazgul's shot of this sort? I'm afraid that's become the standard in my mind, and any such photo will have to compare favorably to that one in order to get a good score from me.

Desolation
by Joey Lawrence

Comment:
Your comments here remind me of my own attitude toward a lot of my old processing jobs... I tend to feel like newer is better, and I look back at stuff I worked months (or years) ago and think "boy, how primitive." Sometimes I think that's the correct attitude, and sometimes I think it's just a knee-jerk reaction to the old vs. the new.

The point of all that was that I think that the challenge entry was edited with no less finesse; if you could have gone back and redone your challenge entry with this sort of processing (grain aside), I wouldn't be able to say that I think that this is better. Of course, it's kind of hard to make a direct comparison when the composition differs.

That's my $1.32. ($0.02 for the thoughts, $1.30 for S&H)

Ew.
by Joey Lawrence

Comment:
I love how f&#*ed up this is

unplugged
by Rikki

Comment:
On the upside, the score you actually got is very close to the average of your two guesses. So this says something good about your predictive abilities :)

Circular Square
by ergates

Comment:
wow, this is definitely weird. good stuff

Untitled, 2006
by pawdrix

Comment:
this guy looks like he's straight out of ZZ Top
this is tight

Scenary
by saadat

Comment:
i'm giving this a 2 for the following reasons:

- clearly does not meet the challenge
- technically poor
- compositionally poor
- title is spelled incorrectly

Wired
by Jutilda

Comment:
This is very strong. The untraditional border works well here, and the muted, low-key palette is really nice. I'm glad you left the sky so dark, and whatever you did to make it that color, I like it. This photo has an air of elegance and refinement.