where's mom?
by shadia

Comment:
bit small. could do with sharpening.

Extinct in the Wild
by flip89

Comment:
could do with sharpening. a bit back lit - flash may have helped.

Voyagers
by Bear_Music

Comment:
some haloing around birds. nice colours.

Naples
by BobsterLobster

Comment:
Great image of Italian disregard for personal safety...!

This kind of shot is so hard to pull off - a zoom pan, if I am not mistaken, in order to deal with 3 degrees of motion. The focal strength of the image is most strongly on the headlight of the bike, then the girl's face, then the mother's face. The picture might have been slightly stronger if the girl's face were the strongest part of the focus (though obviously, this is a one-off shot, rather than something you could re-run and take multiple passes at!). In terms of framing, the bike is travelling to the LHS of the image and it would be good to see a bit more space (proportioanlly) on that side on the photo.

However, these are very minor points - pulled out only because you wanted constructive criticism. I like the image a lot!

LegalBeagle Canary Wharf
by Kavey

Comment:
Thanks Kavey - "crippled by photography". At least my pants weren't showing. Though my photo from that angle didn't really work!

heads!
by p2jvr

Comment:
Congratulations on the top 40 (nearly top 30) finish!

Kate
by BobsterLobster

Comment:
Very nice image. Skin tones excellent. I like the abstraction.

My POV is drawn very slightly away from the hand by the slightly lighter patch just to the right of the hand: the skin and background appear to be close to matching (on my monitor), which is slightly distracting. There is the lightest of red marks (a thin line) half way between the hand and the waistline, which could be cloned out. These points are only of relevance because the image is minimalistic in nature, and any minor imperfection becomes more noticeable (though the small freckles and moles add to the picture).

Galleria Umberto I
by BobsterLobster

Comment:
I do now want a 12mm lens. Wow.

This is a great example of perspective, but also of distortion at the extremes. The ceiling is spectacular, though I might experiment with reducing the distortion in the top half of the image: the dome looks a little too round to me, and I wonder if compressing the top third of the image might create a more natural perspective (though that is probably not what you are aiming for here). If I were bbeing very fussy, I note that the RHS is cropped fractionally more than the LHS.

Gondolas
by BobsterLobster

Comment:
It is always interesting to see a new take on an old image. I have a couple of gondolas shots like this but with them fading into the mist on a stock still day.

There is a bit of grain in the posts, which look a little oddly exposed: to confirm that the only things moving in the image are the boats and the water (and to show that the blur is intentional), the posts need (for me) to be solid and cleanly photgraphed. The flash on the LH boat is a little uneven compared to the boat on the RHS (if desired, this could be fixed in PS, I am sure). The movement on the RHS is a little odd: the boat further back looks as though it has been cut off at its midpoint.

I am not sure that this is an image that I would buy over a more traditional shot - the gondola's shape and sweeping motion is not well conveyed by the up/down movement of the swell, creating a tension in this image that I find very interesting but not aesthetically pleasing. Artistically I think that it has a lot of value (though I would like to see the moorings absolutely crisp, solid and unmoving from that perspective).

Evening Dance
by brianlh

Comment:
beautiful shot and colours - great composition. Would like to see a higher res version.

Ironic on the challenge/timing front!