Sundeck for dreamers
by Neat

Comment:
Looks neat to me...

Arabesque
by Melethia

Comment:
Look who's on a roll lately! "Arabesque" was the name of my last sailboat, BTW :-)

The Snows of Kilimanjaro, by Ernest Hemingway
by hahn23

Comment:
As reflected in a Rocky Mountain lake :-) It's a very beautiful scene, and it benefits from the clean, understated processing. I'm not completely wowed by it, but I appreciate a good landscape shot, and I'm slotting it in my 7 group for now, pending later revision as I see more images.

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
by nam

Comment:
What's nice about this, is that it actually feels like it's a reasonable period piece, faithful to the time in which Joyce wrote the book. The eyes are terrific, the ears weighted down by the hat, the upthrust chin: there's a bit of bewildered, a bit of apprehension, a bit of resistance all speaking here.

The eyes aren't quite as sharp as the nose and lips, and I'd like them to be tack sharp. The skin color seems a little cool to me. But allin all, a very nice entry. 7 from me.

you have left a part of your heart, of your blood, of your soul, in those pavements - Les Misérables
by Epsi

Comment:
A striking image. Very powerful. The connection to Les Mis is tenuous for me, but I'm taking things perhaps more literally than ought to be doing, and I'll acknowledge that at a metaphorical level you're it's working hard.

8 from me

A Bend in the River
by moondog

Comment:
I want to like this one so much more than I actually do :-( What's NOT to like? A curving stream, some shorebirds, an interesting tree... The elements are here. The composition's decent. But the processing isn't doing this justice; you've used tone mapping to flatten the scene very unnaturally, and it's also feeling very "crunchy" as a result of too much added structure or local-area contrast.

But, beyond technical issues, there's nothing much in this image to serve as a focal point around which it can organize. That's not always a serious flaw, but the issue here is that there are so MANY details that we need at least ONE aspect of it to stand out and take control. If, for example, one of the birds were wading in the nearer foreground, that might help a lot.

5 from me

Lord of the flies
by nygold

Comment:
This works rather well with the novel :-) The expression of the central boy's not entirely convincing, but the unexpected face in the lower left is priceless. I like the matter-of-fact processing and the artless composition. By "artless", I mean that it doesn't seem forced or unnatural or contrived, it feels spontaneous.

Very nicely done, 8 from me.

"North and South," by John Jakes
by ShaneBlake

Comment:
There's a lot to like in this image, as far as lighting and processing, though to my eyes you've tone-mapped it a little too flat. But the thing of it is, what's not working as well for me here is that every face is obscured, not visible. I know there's not much you could do about it (sure don't want to stand in FRONT of these event) but the bottom line is, it's all so STATIC: a hint of emotion in the faces would have helped that.

A 5 from me.

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1886)
by Garry

Comment:
You made a very good choice here, changing the eye colors and expressions on each side of the face. I actually think this works, as an image, a LOT better than the heavily bilateral one you showed me earlier. I'm not voting on this, of course, but if I were you'd be in my 8 group right now.

Rear End
by P-A-U-L

Comment:
You're turning into one of my favorite DPC photographers :-) Congrats of the TT!