Abandoned
by lunachicken

Comment:
I love how the sand looks like metal...moire taffeta...either way it has this really nice movement.

darkness at noon
by herfotoman

Comment:
6...I'm not familiar with the novel, but this is fun to look at...great movement a texture.

"A River Runs Through It" by Norman Maclean
by rjkstesch

Comment:
6...this is quite nice and fits the book. I can't stand the border. I'm not anti-border, just anti this border. That little white border is really fighting the image for attention, and it's winning. And the way the black in almost nonexistent at the top and bottom...I don't know why or for what purpose. A simple black border would have been perfect.

The Secret Garden
by giantmike

Comment:
6...the first thing that popped into my mind was Weirwood from Game of Thrones. It's those bright red leaves. I like it more for those series of novels. I suppose it works for Secret Garden, but it seems like an obvious thing for that. Technically, I wish there was more information to see in the trees trunk, but I know this wasn't a simple exposure. A little more space on the left would have given the branch a bit of breathing room too, but that may not have been possible.

The Bell Jar
by grahamgator

Comment:
6...It's a nice enough image, the sharpness of the butterfly is fabulous, but I see nothing of the referenced book really. I suppose this could be metaphorical, but I would at least expect to see and actual bell jar. Technically, some of the darks seem too dark, loosing information in the shadows, particularly in the ground and the area at the top of the jar.

To the Lighthouse: Virginia Woolf
by vikas

Comment:
7...that's a tough exposure to make. The sky may be slightly hot, but if the colors were even slightly duller, the entire image wouldn't be as appealing IMO. The water is really beautiful.

Kafka's "The Castle"
by RyanW

Comment:
6...it's a all technically nice, it just doesn't move me in any sort of way.

The Last Leaf
by dahlin

Comment:
6...such a good story. As far as this photograph, I enjoy the contrast between the warm golden leaf and the cool hard ground. I might have tried cloning out the stem on the left there and the one at the top right. I find the vignette is fighting the composition as it's too centered. The image would have been fine without it, or if the center of the vignetting were over the actual leaf.

The Old Curiosity Shop-Charles Dickens
by Mona

Comment:
3...no. This is lazy. At least show me what's in the darn window. ETA, I wanted to add to my original gut reaction. I'm still giving this a 3 and here's why...it's just visually unappealing to me.The composition is lazy/flat/boring. Show the viewer the curiosity shop, not just the sign. And to be perfectly honest, beautiful light, of which there is none here, can make the most boring things come to life...even to Sorry We're Closed signs living in bad compositions.

"Their Eyes Were Watching God" by Zora Neale Hurston
by rodfulk

Comment:
3...this is so cold and hard. I don't see a connection to the story at all. Nothing about this says early 20th American South, much less the story of an African American woman making here way through life in that era. To me this just looks like a photograph of another persons sculpture.