Blowing Steam
by jonr

Comment:
beautiful funnels of smoke mixing in with clouds. 7

Tattered and Torn
by elizadeb

Comment:
looks like it was overcontrasted, but I like the effect. I get this overall sense of looking at something I shouldn't be looking at... a feeling of trespassing. 7

Bad feather day
by Melethia

Comment:
good composition. the regularity of the fenceposts make a pleasing foil for the disheveled bird. 7

autumn
by mattforbes

Comment:
the single leaf, the single strand of hair, while others went looking for the biggest and baddest, you simply turned up the sensitivity of your instrument and found the gentlest touch of wind. 8

October Wind
by Judith Polakoff

Comment:
I like the tilt. It exaggerates the wind effect and creates an overall disorientation appropriate for the challenge. Nice soft tones, too. 8

Shadow of the Wind
by noraneko

Comment:
Boys and Kites

The world looks folded in three,
sky on water on white sand.
In the crease run little boys
away from their laughing kites,
the brilliant colors stretched
on a geometric frame.

Capable of flight, prone
to crashes, they are
hard on themselves, rigid, yet
they fall so bravely,
headlong into shore.

A boy running with a frail string
gripped in both hands
knows unhappiness,
feels it bouncing just behind.

Losing With Grace
by posthumous

Comment:
yes, this is an original poem... it's even written by me... ;)

don't ask me what the pearls mean. I may be changing that line.

Face to face at Picasso museum [Paris]
by FrancoisB

Comment:
I like how the lighting/processing makes the two figures more similar to each other. 8

Time for my Bath
by MPRPRO

Comment:
I love the "old photo" look of this, except the nude doesn't have this look, which throws off the whole picture. 5

Halloween Tree
by jaysonmc

Comment:
my eye keeps getting drawn to that boring patch of grass in the lower left, but other than that it's a very cool photo. 7