Feather
by Ammie

Comment:
It's an image of a feather. It's red. That's as far as it goes for me. Attention has been paid to shallow DOF, but other than that it's just kind of *there*, and it doesn't engage me at all. For this reason, I give it a 4.

Red Spectrum
by jomari

Comment:
Well, it's RED :-) It's skillfully done, technically. It doesn't in any way touch me emotionally. Also I'm bothered by how the second-from-right vase touches its neighbor, I so want to see a clean gap there. A 6 from me.

joy
by tvsometime

Comment:
THAT is red-full-of-fun! I rather wish the walking figure top left of center wasn't there, but we can't have everything :-) Great answer to the challenge! 8

"Move OVER, you Road Hog!"
by Lydia

Comment:
I have absolutely no idea what's going on here. In the best of all possible scenarios, that's a taxidermied boar's head and all's well with the world, except possibly for your fevered imagination. That's what I want to believe. But what's with the welder's glove? Do I even want to know? I gave this a 7 for pure stun-value, and I'm commenting only now.

RENDEZVOUS
by Art Roflmao

Comment:
There's a lot to like in this image. A sort of massive compactness, for one thing, and nicely rendered colors, and of course it meets the challenge head-on. I'm not at all a fan of how you've swirled the foliage in such a heavy-handed way; It's a gritty, gritty image, and it wouldn't have hurt to let the foliage be part of that detail. I gave you a 7, commenting only now.

Harley Trek
by GolferDDS

Comment:
This image is nicely detailed, but the image suffers from what appear to be over-sharpening artifacts and, more importantly, it doesn't meet the challenge. It's not a plane, nor is it a train, nor is it an automobile :-( For this reason I gave it a 3.

the empty train
by Tiberius

Comment:
I gave this an 8 as soon as I saw it. I'm commenting now. I'm not quite sure why it hit me so forcefully, to be honest, but I'm not backing down now. It may be as simple as the fact that I spent my working life as an architectural photographer, and this is a finely-balanced and executed architectural interior. There are no flaws in the rendering, the tones and colors are where they need to be. And there's a certain sense of amazement at viewing a clean, empty transportation module. I'm guessing this is an airport shuttle?

Hot Rod Racer
by thesixer

Comment:
I'm a Southern California boy, born in 1946, and a lifelong car nut, so at that specific level this pushes a lot of buttons for me. I grew up in the golden years of Hot Rodding, and I follow them to this day. I can't say this is an especially original image, but it sure as heck addresses the challenge, it's technically accomplished, and the bravado of the rotated angle works here, so I gave it an 8. Commenting only now.

Checkered
by PennyStreet

Comment:
I couldn't make up my mind whether I hated the mirror or loved it. Such a jarring element. Then I decided that since it had become an issue with me, and I couldn't resolve it, that the image was working, if you get my drift? That, and the possibly illusory hint of pea-green in the checkered vehicle, got you an 8 from me :-)

I love to see the wind in her hair
by insteps

Comment:
You know, there's something about this image that's just mesmerizing, actually several things. There's the whole mystery of "What car is that?", for one thing. Clearly a Detroit boat, 70's or early 80's I'd guess, possibly Cadillac. The artful disarray of the cover, perfectly modeled by the light, spot on. That simply awesome bit of shadow creeping down dead-center; I like to think that was a conscious decision on your part, that all the asphalt is there for the single purpose of underscoring the purely symmetrical asymmetry of this image. My only 10 thus far, commenting only now.