And the ship sails on
by LevT

Comment:
subtleties are so important. my favorite thing about this photo is how the bar seems to be bending in her hat. This creates a real connection between girl and bars that I can feel. It shows that she is getting too close to them, pressing futilely against them. your composition gives us a teasing view of the world she's trying to get at. Eeyore is resigned to misery, as is his way. But he waits faithfully.

I wouldn't change a thing.

Leslie
by yanko

Comment:
I think just a little more variation between pose 1 and pose 2 would make this a really striking work. but then it's pretty striking as it is. Or perhaps spanking is a better word.

this photo gives me a lot to think about, whether I want to or not. One thing I find myself doing is comparing what he looks like to what I imagine he wants to look like, or thinks he looks like.

i like that he is his own parade, sharp and colorful amid a grey motion-blurred crowd.

and how exactly could this NOT look weird? :D

Clive
by cpanaioti

Comment:
the oof shapes of the horses and trees are really lovely. we see just enough of the foreground horse to identify with him, to wonder if everything else is just taking place in his mind. perhaps those fuzzy shapes behind him are memories...

LIGHT 1.jpg
by mia67

Comment:
it's a pleasing and competent composition, the dof adds interest. but nothing takes this beyond being a picture of candles. scorewise that creates a ceiling of 6 for me. I need to feel stories in the shadows! I must hear secrets in the light!

Gothic, take two
by Melethia

Comment:
hell yeah! this will score at least a full point lower than your original, maybe two!

but I love it.

(I might have cropped off another inch, though... oh, I am bad...)

Cathedral
by Melethia

Comment:
All gothic cathedrals look the same from this angle. For me, all your crazy processing was the key to getting something memorable from this shot. You've made it... well... more gothic. It also reminds me of German silents, Fritz Lang with far more detail.

The only thing is that eventually I notice the man on the bottom and I realize you're trying to feature him in some way. For me, the competition between man and cathedral cancel each other out.

I can't help but notice that if I "crop" off the top (by scrolling down) to be approximately square, the man becomes the focal point and the picture is just astounding and strange and unique. My kind of picture!

_-
by bucket

Comment:
wth? why are you not sending me this photo?

Monochromatic
by Wildcard

Comment:
I need to write an essay about why I like abstracts. I think this is lovely. A diagonal pulsing rhythm of lines and water in the background counterpoint the steady beat of vertical lines in the foreground. Colors are very subjective (to monitors as well as eyes!), but I love these pink to red to purple shades. I also love how the falling water is also catching light and creating shapes of light. This is hang-upable.

Swinging 4
by timfythetoo

Comment:
wow wow wow!! every see Francis Bacon paintings? xianart's photos often remind me of Francis Bacon. The distortion of motion has ironically created a very still, sad face, as though it were a ghost hiding in your photo rather than the face of your subject. It seems too big (and too old) to be the face of your subject. So, when first approaching this photo it seems like another happy playful motion shot, but then you are struck with that face, giving it much more impact than it would have otherwise. The composition also helps to temporarily hide the face but then inexorably draw the eye to it. Fantastic.

Jeff Gordon Pit Stop Dover DE.
by MPRPRO

Comment:
my first reaction is amusement. everyone is so busy and efficient, yet they are dressed in these ridiculous cartoony colors. these same garish colors keep any composition from asserting itself. the diagonals you've created, the energy that might have been gained from cropping off the front of the car, all has been lost in the deafening cacophony of color.