In Honor of the Veterans
by MPRPRO

Comment:
The flag seems like a belch in the great, gaping mouth of this bridge. The selective desaturation contributes to this effect. The suspension cables create an exaggerated perspective, making it seem like the flag is issuing out from some deep central place within the bridge.

Displays like this remind me of Imperial Rome in its decline, when the excess of emperors seemed like a sign of insecurity, their insistence they were gods seemed like an overcompensation. I can almost already see this bridge as a large, impressive ruin for future tourists to marvel over.

Shower
by Jedusi

Comment:
It is so hard to get a good picture of rain. agenkin has done it well. He captures the motion of rain, the energy of it. You have captured the feeling of rain, a texture of rain, as though rain were something unmoving in the air that we could touch. Everything in your photo is profoundly affected by this rain. Your son is under a tree because of it. The tree is heavy with it. Your dog defies the rain, and as such is almost banned from the photo. Notice that his form is balanced by a heavier presence of branches in the opposite corner. It is a perfectly balanced photo, which is rare in a photo so wide. The forms of son and tree curving against each other, the way the son's vertical is extended by some sort of branch in the foreground, this is perfectly composed the way a painting would be. But it is too momentary for a painting, and few painters would dare to paint only half a dog. No, this is pure photography. It is not painting, it is not reality, it is an impossibility: instead of water taking the shape of its container, the container takes the shape of water.

the audience
by boysetsfire

Comment:
I hadn't thought about the title until sevil brought it up. For me, it means that all three "subjects" seem to be facing the same way: forward-left. The implication is that something is happening offstage.

But there is a wonderful sense of irony in this shot, I feel it far more likely that you simply caught a coincidence of looking. The point here is that nothing is happening at the far-left, just like nothing is happening here in the photo. It is a picture of nothing, a funny, engaging, self-deprecating picture of nothing.

(Sorry, but nothing is a hobby of mine.)

Day 19
by mia67

Comment:
A genuine smile and the tight crop creates a pleasing spiral of large, textured shapes. It's a successful portrait. This is probably highly subjective, but my only qualm is the hue. It seems just a little too greenish(?) yellowish(?) to me.

2
by sevilduvarci

Comment:
This is about saying good-bye, but it's funny instead of sad. There is, after all, something freeing about loss. We are losing something that chained us to this world.

The exiting person is cropped in such a way that he seems like a one-legged acrobat defying gravity. He is also going against the "left to right" grain that is part of my culture, so that he seems to be ending through the beginning. He is also on top of the picture, defying gravity even more, and the bottom of the picture is dedicated to a road that is not being used. This fellow uses the road less traveled, and that has made all the difference.

Composition: a perfectly balanced geometry of lines. Foot touches down right in the middle of this photo's y axis. A perceived diagonal is achieved from the endpoints of the white lines in the road, going in the same direction as the diagonals in the sidewalk. The rest of your lines are perfect verticals and horizontals. What you have is a nice geometrical stage for your crazy acrobat.

I find this photo uplifting, hopeful, quirky, and laughing in the face of death. I find in it a bravery that I can use.

My sexual self
by siggi

Comment:
it looks like you're crying

Holding on to childhood
by Giorgio

Comment:
clumsy vignetting but otherwise a good photo. trust your photo!

House of Sand and Fog
by noraneko

Comment:
the fence has its own wave and pulse, from different angles becoming different things. you used this angle to create the illusion of wide border.

sand, ocean, fence, weeds are all pulsing madly. you found a sedate, controlled angle to rein them in a bit. controlled chaos... disappearing into light. count me in.

Love Lost
by Jedusi

Comment:
I gave this a 7. I don't generally like rose shots because it's too cliched of a symbol, but the water is creating major distortion here, which adds a lot of interest for me. You also have strong diagonals in the composition.

And sometimes when I look at this I imagine the bubbles are issuing out of the rose like notes from a small sad bugle.

Second Try
by JenniferDavidGA

Comment:
The people in this photo are so small and clustered that they serve only as a distraction. If you featured people more prominently as part of the composition, then you would have some interest going; we would at least have a photo of people interacting with something. As it is, it seems like you're only trying to capture this car creature, which is just somebody else's artwork. The processing flattens everything, which just reminds me that this started out as a cartoon. The only thing about this photo that engages me are those big eyes, but that's just what this cartoonist (and every cartoonist) intended from the beginning. My "reaction" is "stop staring at me!"