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by Bear_Music

Comment:
Nordlys, What caught my eye in the first place was the juxtaposition of the filigreed, shadowed trees upon the mirror-like water, and the much greater warmth further out. I'll stick with the trees.

Madman, they're NOT reflections. They're bare, autumn trees in shadow, silhouetted against the water.

Sunset, Wellfleet — November 2005
by Bear_Music

Comment:
I appreciate the kind words, but personally I don't think this image is all that great. It lacks a little something, especially in the background. I'm, happy with where it placed, I expected at BEST a top 20 and realistically hoped for top 30, which is what I got. There were a LOT of really nice images in this challenge.

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by nomad469

Comment:
In the main, I quite like it. In seems to me it could be more luminous, glowing. Not a lot is needed, but a bit IMO. The floating brass band abogve her elbow is a major distraction for me. I like the shadows, there is a graphic quality they augment, a sort of stylization. I like the seriousness. But then, I hung out with dancers for many years.

Just a Flash in the Pan
by talmy

Comment:
Id this were a single light source, with the light INSIDE the pan, how can the pan be throwing a shadow?

Gentle Green
by tonyv

Comment:
This is a very gentle green, indeed. The image itself is extremely appealing, sich and gauzy and soothing. But the overlaying of the triptych seems to me very much at war with the image itself. What I find especially odd is that the three panels are NOT the same size, so clearly you were putting thought into exactly where the panels should break.

In other words, you consciously used the rightmost panel-break to split the raised stem of the leaf. And I don't know why you made that choice. I am presuming you had a very specific reason to do it, but it seems to me to be the wrong choice here. I'd be interested in hearing why you did it this way, what you were after. Feel free to PM me if you wish.

Names Without Faces
by JPR

Comment:
I have come back to this one. It is very strong. Powerful and graphic, good strong weight to it visually. Bumping you up a notch.

Life Passing
by muur88

Comment:
This is in many ways one of the more interesting triptychs, conceptually, in this challenge. There's a palpable sense of immediacy, of the passage of time and life. Technically it [i]appears[/i ]flawed, with the bright vertical haloing on the right edges, and the tiny, disheveled wedge of gutter showing in each image is oddly attention-getting, but overall this leaves a certain gritty, homespun texture to the whole that's appealing to me. Bumping up, and good luck!

Golden Gate
by bryanbrazil

Comment:
Lovely iamge, but it doesn't ft comfortably into the format for me. The divisions seem quite arbitrary to me.

Reviewing this, I find myself wondering how it would work if the panels were of ascending size from left to right, so both towers were in the right-most panel, and the leftmost panel were narrower than the central panel. I donno. Regardless, it's a lovely rendering, very serene, and I am bumping it up a notch. Good luck!

Another day in Paradise
by Jean

Comment:
A finely-balanced image with a great deal of emotive content, one of my high scorers. I'm not quite comfortable with the balance of the white space here, but I am trying to view them as I suspect you intended me too, as 4 panels floating borderless and unframed on a white wall.

Bumping on review. Good luck!

Aerial Ballet
by Riponlady

Comment:
This is beautifully rendered. I'm vaguely uneasy about the overall greenish-cyan cast, but I'm sure it was a conscious decision on your part. There's nevertheless a sense that the dominant cyans don't quite match int he 3 panels, and this is bothering me a little. Good luck with this entry; I believe you'll do very well.