Foggy Sunday Morning
by phylsy7

Comment:
Lovely composition. I gave this a 9.

Morning Rain
by gloda

Comment:
This was one of two 10s I gave in this composition. Way to be a photographer.

Refreshing
by Atlantis

Comment:
I gave two 10s and this is one of them. Gorgeous picture. Your processing makes the picture.

Itsy-bitsy.jpg
by Hairlessman

Comment:
Exciting angle, shooting him from the side like that. It makes him seem really big, the way the usual overhead shot never does. It's even more interesting than the face-on shot.

Thorn
by Elvis_L

Comment:
a simple composition, but effective. I'm generally not crazy about all-black or all-white backgrounds, since you usually lose any chance of interaction between foreground and background, but in this case the negative space has its own interesting shapes, and the subject fades into the blackness giving you more interesting edges. The subject itself has some interesting texture, much more than I'm expecting from a simple thorn. An important touch here is the large OOF area in a prominent position. That adds just the touch of complexity this needs to keep it from being too simple, and adds to the drama of the thorn.

In the sunlight
by silverscreen

Comment:
I'm giving you an extra point because that ladybug looks like it's painted.

Percussion
by Melethia

Comment:
Not emotive? Just look at those poor screws trying to make something of themselves and getting lost in the crowd. Look at them, fumbling around in their orbit of rust when the Universe surrounding them is so colorful. Slowly, my eye makes out what is "top" and what is "side"... I put together a cylinder from this fragment. It is productive, enjoyable work, the kind that makes for a rich artist-audience experience. Not emotive... pshaw. And yes, the colors are very pretty. Imagine this in the Pastels challenge!

Leaving Leaves
by butch81385

Comment:
I don't mean to confuse you, because I know that we want to start out lousy so that we can improve... but this is beautiful. I think it's a useful strategy to capture illusions with a photograph, since a photograph is itself an illusion. And those "stains" are themselves photographs. After all, photography is nothing more than a very sophisticated "stain" of light.

But the effect works both ways. Yes, the real leaf seems like an illusion, but that also makes the illusion-leaves seem more real, and then I even imagine the ground as some kind of sky in which they're falling. the lines in the concrete(?) seem like rain, or some sort of precipitation. Your "unprocessing" keeps everything soft and muted and enhances this shifting between illusion and reality.

feeling low
by bucket

Comment:
When I feel low, and I mean really low, this is exactly what I feel like. Notice the square spotlight and how it is reflected on both the x and y axis. All three dimensions have a darkness with a square hole in it. All three dimensions are isolated from each other.

The floor is aware of her presence, hints of a shadow/reflection, but she is not aware that the floor is aware. There is a sense here that sorrow, like everything else, has an ending.

It's opening night and a nervous little Yellow Ducky steps onto the stage and into the spotlight...
by Quackers

Comment:
where's the shadow? where's the spot of light? showing that would have helped the drama and met the challenge better. 5