The Fourth Grace
by zeuszen

Comment:

Originally posted by tnun: Great composition. Classic and zany. Did you really mean "forth" as in forefront, to augment the odd combination?

No, I wasn't that subtle. I was asleep at the keyboard. :-/
Thanks for the heads up, T.

Week 39.jpg
by salmiakki

Comment:
This is so good, especially the women's folded hands... all the broken stone forms...
I wonder what it would be like at a greater proximity or cropped to leave nothing but the wide foreground with the two solitudes in the third...
The balconies and sky are, in my view, redundant to the story told here. I'd rather ponder the humanity against the stony evidence of centuries.

It's not that I seek to find fault in such a moving image. It's just that I'm awake now, after having looked, with a heightened sense of it. :-)

Message edited by author 2008-10-01 13:02:35.

4
by jmritz

Comment:
Energy/Range/Story: 7/7/5
Composition/perspective/manner: 6/6/6
Aesthetics/Technical:6/6
Presentation: 7
Total: 6.2
Vote: 6

Remarks: Well, yes. The (simple) title is useful here in that it it directs the eye where it should go, straight away. From here, all is delicious.

where did I put my feet?
by thorgils

Comment:
Energy/Range/Story: 6/7/7
Composition/perspective/manner: 6/6/7
Aesthetics/Technical:7/6
Presentation: 6
Total: 6.4
Vote: 6

Remarks: Probably not the most topical of entries but one that taps quite a range of emotions from the very light (the masculine legs in satin and gauze) to the profound (the tumbled positioning, the tattered mess of of shoes, the balance of effort/exhaustion and the back-stage view this image affords us. The photo, in my view, thrives in its positioning between the genres, abstracting an emotional ambiance rather than fitting any categorical expectations one may bring to this challenge.

the Beginning and the End
by SherwinJames

Comment:
Energy/Range/Story: 7/6/6
Composition/perspective/manner: 6/7/6
Aesthetics/Technical:6/6
Presentation: 6
Total: 6.2
Vote: 6

Remarks: --

Swimming Pool
by mattforbes

Comment:
Energy/Range/Story: 7/7/6
Composition/perspective/manner: 8/7/8
Aesthetics/Technical:10/7
Presentation: 6
Total: 7.3
Vote: 7

Remarks: Not an obvious abstract but an immaculately composed (seen) one with all the visual attributes of the genre. The exaggerated contrast distributes good emphasis, tension and balance between both the static graphic and the quietly natural elements of the image. The result is an exciting photograph whose energy has been so efficiently employed as to render any evidence of subjects beyond its margins as a delightful quirk or, if you like, as a deliberate intimation of unbroken perfection somewhere outside our field of vision.

the goat
by bruski

Comment:
Energy/Range/Story: 7/6/5
Composition/perspective/manner: 6/6/7
Aesthetics/Technical:8/8
Presentation: 6
Total: 6.56
Vote: 7

Remarks: I can't easily abstract the image, which, however, doesn't prevent me from appreciating it. The slow motion trails extend an ethereal quality to an animal usually evoking quite the opposite attribute. A gorgeous antithesis in a fine range of tones.

Citroen Traction Avant Over Hammersmith Bridge
by AlexSaberi

Comment:
I've tried to acquire this car decades ago, in Spain, from a man who used a nylon stocking as a fan belt. Now, that it's near impossible to find parts, I have to be content with this shot of one. A little dark, perhaps, but nice 'n moody and creamy like my morning coffee. If you need a fender of an Avant, you can have this one:

Michael
by magenmarie

Comment:
Energy/Range/Story: 7/6/6
Composition/perspective/manner: 6/6/7
Aesthetics/Technical:7/7
Presentation: 6
Total: 6.4
Vote: 6

Remarks: the subject appears to have prompted all manner and treatment. The result, to my sense, is a wonderful and sincerely felt cohesion of elements.

Old symmetries.....with a twist
by Rino63

Comment:
Energy/Range/Story: 6/6/6
Composition/perspective/manner: 6/5/6
Aesthetics/Technical:7/6
Presentation: 7
Total: 6.1
Vote: 6

Remarks: an amusing understatement. -I imagine Thomas Mann would have enjoyed the hotel...