Bizarre Bouquet (Green Vase, Brown Belt, White Sheet, Baby's Arm)
by kdkaboom

Comment:
I thought this was tres elegant. I gave it an 8.

Effervescence
by Wildcard

Comment:
I was your 10. This is gorgeous.

Vitamin E
by gregmirzoyan

Comment:
I gave this a 10. A beautiful shot that perfectly fulfills the challenge. That score is ridiculous.

At the end of the day
by Melethia

Comment:
I loved this. I gave it an 8. I just didn't have time to finish the voting and commenting.

Still Life
by cincolas1

Comment:
Greetings from Critique Club!

I love the interpretation of the challenge. Just think about the possible meanings of this title:

1. An inanimate object, as you mentioned, is "still"
2. The image also suggests someone dying, which makes life "still."
3. Where there's life, there's hope. This image depicts the struggle that EMTs go through when there's still life.

As someone mentioned, the viewer breathes a sigh of relief upon realizing that the child is not real. But the poignancy remains because a photograph is never "real" to the viewer.

There is another sense in which this fulfills the challenge. You took the strategy that some other brave hearts took: freezing motion and calling that stillness. Here we have the frenetic motion of people trying to save a life (even if it is staged) frozen forever. The resulting effect really does feel "still," almost eerily so.

The flash does give this a snapshot feel, but personally I find this only adds to the immediacy of the shot. The composition is great. It conveys the story with as little visual information as possible about the rescuers. The hands doing cpr reach down from above, disembodied. For me they represent hope. They could also represent faith.

I think that the snapshot feel, the exciting composition and the creative interpretation of the challenge all led the DPCers to vote you low. Sad, isn't it?

Alley
by graeme2s

Comment:
competing with me for the brown? well, I think this is beautiful. 10

THEATRE BLUES
by jblaylockrayner

Comment:

Originally posted by Melethia: I like the wide angle aspect of it - works quite well with the distortion, if you ask me.

what she said. without the distortion there would have been even more "anxiety of influence" from the original painting.

Impressionism at the dentist
by snaffles

Comment:
It's sad (funny?) that so many DPCers have no sense of history. They don't realize that Impressionism was a movement that ended a hundred years ago. Good job on this.

I Was Caged In Like A Poor Defenceless Animal
by hotpasta

Comment:
No to your outtakes! You have the perfect angle and crop on this shot. Seeing your outtakes only makes me appreciate your photo more.

... (silence)
by tapeworm_jimmy

Comment:
it is the silence of the victim. powerful image.