Slip
by RKT

Comment:
the implied star works well with the square frame. the star isn't real of course. the shape is imaginary, evoked by where fabric overlaps and blocks light, and it's also incomplete, cut off by the square ... except it's not cut off by the square. there is no rest of the star, we only imagine a rest of the star because it's cut off. this is how ghosts work, and the mind, and politics, and everything else.

Untitled
by aznym

Comment:
yes this is a good candid or faux-candid, with great high contrast black and white, but also excellent use of the square canvas, with the area that should be well lit under headlights actually being a mighty diagonal shadow over half the photo. bravo

Wikani Skies the limit
by Ecce_Signum

Comment:
oh wow I am throwing away my dog photos and possibly my dogs.

oh well, my dogs came back again. I can't be rid of them or my dark grainy imagery.

but this is transformative.

Overlap
by streetpigeon

Comment:
I'm a sucker for the texture of chainlink fence. you've also added interest by having it slightly off a direct angle. creating slight diagonals and slight perspective.

don't go
by mariuca

Comment:
a great example of an art piece being more than the image. the title transforms the image, makes it sad and funny, and the image is perfectly suited to that. the shadow hand is a ghost. our desire is an ineffectual ghost.

- - - -
by krnodil

Comment:
another good use of blank sky, this time black instead of white. it gives a sense of place, scale, mood.

also, I love the way the street painting is the same brightness as the lights on the cars. it is a disorienting effect that makes this seem like black ink scratched away instead of a photo.

under pier
by tnun

Comment:
love the intense darks and lights, and such a great composition for a square. you done good.

The Unbearable Lightness of Being
by ubique

Comment:
oh wow, how did this Posthumous Blue get here? poor guy will have to feast on thorns.

I don't want to alarm you but your dog has tusks.

the fields of darkness and light, the thorns as a texture, it is a dazzling image, and certainly thrives in its square cage

faith
by RKT

Comment:
thank you for gracing us with this instead of winning a ribbon in a challenge (you did that anyway, so who needs this one?)

I like most the disorienting angle. faith is vertiginous, the hope that if we get dizzy enough someone will catch us.

and yes, well composed for the square. a very bold diagonal indeed, pointed to heaven.

Eleanor
by NikonJeb

Comment:
Gee, I think she's swell.

This looks so much like a coin. I love a visual analogy