driving fast, slow shutter speed
by jmritz

Comment:
This feels like a video game.

Or hell.

Yes, let's give this an eight.

Make a modern photo look old
by SEG

Comment:
Does have the look of a faded photo -- most obvious in the shadows and greenish tones.

Photographing Otherworldly Critters
by Alyn

Comment:
Dig those pearly white! In your face! Great!

Centred Composition
by Matthew

Comment:
It's still heavy on the right side. Not a criticism because it looks good as is.

spurging ahead
by tnun

Comment:

Originally posted by bvy: The blur is a little more shaky than what we usually see from Ben. I like your title.

Dumb comment. I guess we all shake to our own inner Spurgeon.

Childhood swept away
by MacDonald

Comment:
I think you made the right choice. Honestly, I didn't see the children when you first showed this to me, and I wonder how many of our rapidfire voters
missed them. The title invites us to look harder. Nice work.

In God's shadow
by lavi83

Comment:
So many possibilities here. The poetry is darker than anything of Ben's I've read. I know it's something he'll appreciate. Certainly, I do.

The Boy in the Cellar.
by rooum

Comment:
At first glance, an abstraction of terror. Subsequent glances are more disturbing. It's a metaphor many of us can relate to, even if we'd rather not. It's much easier, after all, to just look away...

We can't see the child's face. The face could be yours or mine and the cellar some dark part of our past we'd rather not explore or revisit. We do our best to endure it (as shown here by the child's mannerly posture) but it never really leaves us. It sits alongside us. Dark against light. Color against pallor.

This one registers with the psyche.

I'd be remiss if I closed my commentary without relating this in some way to our Man of the Week. Ben's images are efficient like this in their ability to stir the imagination. His imagination is fertile. That's why I enjoy his work, and it's why I enjoy this. This one is my pick of the challenge, and I suspect it will be high on his list as well.

(And thank you for reading my ten thousandth instance of dilettante drivel here...)

Value Invert my Soul
by PetRock

Comment:
What's on the other side is always more terrifying.

Lily Pods and Pontoons - Realistic HDR
by giantmike

Comment:
The HDR effect is most obvious around the boat, but overall it holds up as expected.