Commitment
by cadbike

Comment:
good link to the theme. I like the curve in the background; it adds some dynamism and I think it helps draw the eye to the rings.

Witpoortjie Falls
by sulamk

Comment:
the horizon is badly tilted here, and it ruins the impact of this photo for me.

North Face
by hideout

Comment:
wow, what an amazing amount of detail. it must have been tough to get this under 150KB. (I see that at 147.99 you're just under the wire!) Your colors and clarity are excellent, but the composition is weak. I find there's really nowhere for my eye to settle when I look at this picture; there's no visual anchor. These trees are beautiful and your reasons for pressing the shutter button are clear, but in order for a photo to have a strong impact it must have a focal point. - 6

Monuments
by Bethan

Comment:
This could only be Arches. Such a stunningly beautiful place, and I imagine November is a much more sensible time to visit than when I did in July!

Since the landscape is rather stark, the inclusion of the moon is an important compositional element--and since this is so, the moon would be in a compositionally much better place if it were closer to the other elements of your image (the red rock fins). If you had taken this picture maybe half an hour before, the moon would be in a much better spot. Perhaps then the sun would have been too high for there to be the light you were looking for - so maybe this was just a tough shot with the moon in the phase that it was.

I want to like this photo, because it's of a beautiful place, but the placement of the moon makes it hard. My eye keeps getting pulled straight to the top of the frame, far from anything else in the image, to the point that I can barely even concentrate on the rocks. Even though it would make the photo bottom-heavy, you might have been better off cropping out the moon.

Power
by mycelium

Comment:

Originally posted by Jutilda: GOD - what a jewel to find that Winston Churchill quote by the dumpster! That is amazing. Combines several generations in one simple shot with not a person in site!! EXCELLENT eye! Great capture.

Thank you for the kind words! Thank you also for identifying that quotation as Churchill's - I didn't know whose it was. Actually, I had thought it was someone like Mao's - it's so vainglorious that I wouldn't have guessed Churchill would say something like that, though now that you mention it, I recognize the figure on the poster as Churchill.

This little scene in an untended back alley was just so weird that I couldn't help but press the shutter button.

sapphire lode
by tcmartin

Comment:
gahhh why was this not rated higher?!?@ this is a beautiful and obviously carefully composed image, with a great link to the challenge, and that simply wasn't rewarded the way it should be.

Fuji at Sunrise
by Pedro

Comment:
holy jesus this is freaking awesome
I just wish that dpcprints offered larger sizes in the 1.4:1 ratio! I want a poster of this!

Message edited by author 2005-11-29 03:40:18.

Ready for Her Exam
by labuds

Comment:
great image. the pose is just great, and I also read this image the way you describe in your commentary. Congratulations on making another addition to your collection of ribbons - now hurry up and round it out with a blue already!

The Wall
by CalliopeKel

Comment:
this is really good too.

Randy
by CalliopeKel

Comment:
I see this image somewhat differently from Lee (palmetto) - I think the harsh/high-contrast processing is a perfect reflection of the life of the person in the picture. His bristly beard and care-worn face speak of a life that has not been easy. I see his smile not so much as an expression of happiness, but as an instinctive reaction to having a camera pointed at him: you're supposed to smile for cameras. Behind the smile and deep in the eyes there is a sadness. Despite whatever hardships he has endured and disappointment there have been in his life, he is expected to smile along with the rest of us whose lives have been luckier.

A very thought-provoking image, now among my favorites.