do not go gently
by tnun

Comment:
I gave you a 9, you got 9th... I wonder, should I try giving you a 1 next time and nail you the blue? Or will you gently remind me that correlation is not causation, Bear, and 9's will be fine thank you?

BTW, since I am an editor, let me point out in passing that Dylan Thomas said "Do not go gentle into that good night. Old age should burn and rave at close of day. Rage, rage against the dying of the light." I can't remember the punctuation offhand but those are the first three lines of one of the better villanelles written in modern times :-)

Vevey Funicular
by MargaretNet

Comment:
How well I remember this funicular :-)

Primary Candy
by DCrest01

Comment:
Green is not a primary color :-( You mix yellow with blue to get green...

Defenders of the homeland
by Yo_Spiff

Comment:
I smell a Spiffer at work. This is nicely done. I guess a group portrait is still a portrait and sepia is still B/W but I'd imagined you're getting dinged on these fronts?

First Light
by Ja-9

Comment:
Since these are the Grand Teton mountains, I'm guessing Ja-9 for this one. Whoever it is, lucked out on the sky and the snow :-) Nice work.

the cigarette smoking spot
by Tiberius

Comment:
I didn't like this much at first, but now I do, a lot. It just took a little time to appreciate the in-your-face banality of the scene. The billboard makes it. 8 from me.

Door and mat
by colorcarnival

Comment:
A dog, a cat, a door... BORRING... Right? Wrong! What an exceptional seeing of the mundane! 8 from me.

Ordinary mail
by GeorgesBogaert

Comment:
Gotta love this one. Gotta love it a lot. I'm sure it's ordinary wherever YOU are, whoever you are, and of course it SAYS it's ordinary, right on the green box, but it's an extraordinary mailbox :-) 8 from me.

...time for a cuppa
by IreneM

Comment:
I have mixed feelings about this, as far as the *challenge* goes: a cup of tea with milk is certainly mundane, but the is an extraordinary glass and saucer. It's very well done technically, except I wish the handle could be sharper. The bubbles are perfect, the lighting is terrific. In the end, an 8 from me.

another two
by jmritz

Comment:
It doesn't get any more bleakly ordinary than this one.