'til autumn claims your leaves
by chele

Comment:
Isn't it funny when people are telling you what's wrong with your picture and those are exactly the things that make your picture a compelling and original work of art?

Untitled
by zardoz

Comment:
I love love love this. It definitely would have made my front page. It looks like an 18th century illustration of a colonial farm.

The Last Tree in the Known Universe
by stare_at_the_sun

Comment:
this rocks. did you try cropping off the sides? I might like that even more.

The Guardian
by Jaded_Housewife

Comment:
powerful, exciting image. I'm surprised it didn't do better. Maybe it was the foreground blades of grass. silly, silly voters.

Hope For Tomorrow
by taterbug

Comment:
there's a strange halo around the girl. too much of the vaseline filter? otherwise, a great shot.

Oasis
by MichaelC

Comment:
phenomenal. should have scored higher. what a visual relief in the context of this challenge.

Open Goal
by Imagineer

Comment:
fascinating. the goal reminds me of Wallace Stevens' jar in Tennessee. It changes everything around it.

Anecdote of the Jar

I placed a jar in Tennessee,
And round it was, upon a hill.
It made the slovenly wilderness
Surround that hill.

The wilderness rose up to it,
And sprawled around, no longer wild.
The jar was round upon the ground
And tall and of a port in air.

It took dominion every where.
The jar was gray and bare.
It did not give of bird or bush,
Like nothing else in Tennessee.

Wallace Stevens

Stark
by jaxed

Comment:
Glorious. Sorry I didn't vote in this challenge.

The Recruiting Process
by tate

Comment:
terrific composition and title. wonderful.

The Bonsai Lover
by TUBORG

Comment:
the selective desaturation makes it seem gimmicky. I personally would have loved this shot if it were simply black and white or duotone.