Texture (with a twist)
by Rino63

Comment:
texture is right. this is gorgeous.

Yesterday
by BrownEyes

Comment:
pitch-perfect arrangement. it's like a sandra-bernhardt-sentimental man ray. with a healthy dose of Surrealism.

Reverence
by muur88

Comment:
great mix of obvious symbolism and the unknowable significance of realism. also great fields of darkness with little iconic figures of light within them.

Drive By Tree
by jaysonmc

Comment:
complex, fascinating image.

The Nylon Curtain
by gsal

Comment:
beautifully graphical, great composition.

A Tough Loss
by Mal37

Comment:
Excellent use of foreground and middleground elements to complete a story. The foreground man explains the emotion in an otherwise ambiguous scene.

Leap
by xianart

Comment:
ecstatic, frightening, impossible (and then I see the boy yelling! I was already giving you a 10. an 11?). Logically I know she is jumping off the pole, but visually/viscerally/emotionally I cannot accept that. I can only see her flying.

Posthumous Blue Ribbon

To The Market
by phatphoto

Comment:
so much of the value of this photo was created in post-processing: the crop, the coloring so that her skin becomes part of her scarf, the subtle background of ironwork, all this takes this photo into the realm of highly emotive illustration.

Boy Interrupted
by jenesis

Comment:
the background seems so OOF and so far away and so impossible to reach, yet I can tell exactly what it is and its shapes dominate the composition. The overall effect is a visual paradox that is totally compelling and creates questions about the child... what world does he exist in? what time? Is this a world of his past, his future, a world he abandoned, a world that rejected him? His expression, so intense but completely ambiguous (polyguous?), only intensifies the mystery.

Posthumous Red Ribbon (yes there is another photo as good as this one!)

Bag Head
by whiteroom

Comment:
this photo looks like a critique of every photograph of "third world" children. or it is a political cartoon about the detrimental effects of international plastic culture on "native" populations. The strategic tear in the bag intrigues me. It's as if you couldn't resist the very sort of thing you're critiquing, those big dark beckoning eyes...