A Portrait of the Sky II (from: Anything but landscape - Charlie Baker)698076
by raish

Comment:
I can't believe Charliebaker beat your Charliebaker tribute for yet another Brown, the irony of it!

Cocka'tude
by BaldurT

Comment:
That's cool, broke a 6!

5.52 Reflected
by Melethia

Comment:
Well, *I* love it!

shone
by krnodil

Comment:
Fabulous! Grows on me. Love your explication of what it evokes in you; now that I have that inb mind, I cand efinitely see it that way, though I didn't at first. But there IS a sense of striving, of reaching and lifting.

Flying
by GreatJobBob

Comment:
I have no idea what challenge to reference here, and get over 700 hits when I enter "flying" in the image search engine; I'm not gonna work that hard to find your referent, so this gets a 4 from me for now while I figure out what to do with the images i can't locate the antecedents to.

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Sands of Time
by Wenders11

Comment:
Unable to locate original, none of the images that show u searching title = "sands of time" are brown ribbons.

So it's a 4 from me for that reason; I have decided, quite arbitrarily, to give 4's to whatever images I can't compare to the original. But it's very nicely done, and a beautiful hourglass too :-)

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Life Lines
by WeJay

Comment:
Searching the image/challenge titles for "life lines" gives me no hits so I have no idea what this is referencing. For that reason, I'm giving the image a 4 for now, and will decide how to deal with these unknown-referent images later. It's very nicely done, though :-)

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charliebaker's satire
by riversong

Comment:
For Pete's sake, which one? He's got 27 Brown Ribbons and every last one of them is a satire. Still, I'll make an assumption, that this one is tackling the green square he entered in the "Red" challenge. And I'll tell you what I think:

This challenge is to "improve" a brown-ribbon shot, and I ask you in all sincerity, "How can you improve on perfection?" Charlie's shot is exactly, precisely what he intended it to be. THIS shot would be no more likely to escape the brown in the "Red" challenge because it's still not red, it's GREEN!

It's a mistake to think that including an object in some way makes it a "better" picture, because by including the object you denature the purity of Charlie's depiction; by giving us nothing but plain green, he forces us to absorb his image on precisely his own terms.

Of course, this is all just philosophy; it has nothing much to do with how well-crafted *your* image is. And you did a decent enough job, photographically, don't get me wrong. I'm just passionate about the validity of Charlie's works :-)

Lines Are Everywhere - Puzzle Macro II
by essay

Comment:
Wow. This is remarkably faithful to the goals of the original challenge and to what Whiterook was trying to accomplish, so you get high props for that.

I vaguely wish you'd resisted the temptation to throw in the always-pleasing DPC cliché water droplet, but I can't really punish you for knowing what the voters like can I? And the image is beautifully lit and actually fairly puzzling, as a macro; exactly what is that surface, anyway? You even managed to make an image that's entirely *brown* (in a brown ribbon challenge) and make it look appealing :-)

End result, an 8 from me for now.

THE GOURMET MEAL : Seared Pork Cutlets on Ginger Infused Silverbeet with Moroccan Cous Cous
by hotpasta

Comment:
Yup, this is completely faithful to the original, way more so than the majority of entries, and that's good in my book. And it's definitely an improvement, as well.

Unfortunately, I don't think it's particularly well done, it's just workmanlike to me in its lighting and processing. In particular, it bothers me that the white, rectangular plate is so utterly dominating the image. If this was a restaurant shot (and from the setting it looks like it probably is) then I realize you didn't have a lot of options re: dinnerware and lighting, but even so, the image just doesn't work all that well for me.

I'll give it a 6 because it is being so faithful to the challenge and it's not so bad a job either... It's just that there's so much unrealized potential here...