rice fields
by whiteroom

Comment:
7

Borobudur
by BobsterLobster

Comment:
I love this image for both subject and treatment. My only regret is the lamentable size and resolution. It'll make a great 20 x 30.

Lick
by TOY

Comment:
Energy/Range/Story: 6
Composition/perspective/manner: 8
Aesthetics/Technical: 8
Presentation: 9
Total: 8

Remarks: I'd probably titled it 'Orice. Yours is so much better. -Very appetizing, near formal sensuality.

untitled
by LevT

Comment:
After his private holdings were seized by the state, the Grand Duke chose to retreat to a poor old farmhouse in the French alps where he eeked out a meagre existence with his two dogs, Hotaya and Psovoi, until his mysterious demise in 1989. An autopsy revealed that he had ingested several family diamonds on the eve of his 10th year in exile.

Message edited by author 2007-10-16 18:51:09.

IMG_1732
by whiteroom

Comment:

Originally posted by phatphoto: ...the chair, which on its own, is captivating....the pp is very inviting yet haunting. But I think my most favorite part of the photo is that there is a person standing by the chair. In any other photo, a half-cropped photograph of a person would have been distracting, and yet you managed to make it work. The choice to not include any part of that person's...

The pp is not inviting at all, but why is it not? It's haunting alright.
And why should the half-figure not distract in this shot?
Why is one choice brilliant, but wouldn't be in so many other images we're accustomed to view?

Questions, questions.

Where He go?
by ilphoto

Comment:
A perfect visual delight, well made and infectiously toned. The broad, outlined border is too suggestive, IMO, of a purely graphic perception. I speculate that, without the decorum, the range of the photo should extend beyond any commercial appeal and the style of the boots. (?)

Seekers at the Clambake
by Bear_Music

Comment:
A dynamic ambiant image with great perspective and excellent use of colour. If the more poorly lit objects and textures (in the pit) and the front and face of the central figure (man in red) were brought a little better, we would, IMO, have a great photograph leaving little or no room for improvement.

The atmosphere, however, is contagious enough to rouse anyone's senses.
A 6 on my rigorous scale.

All feet off the ground
by puzzled

Comment:
The stop-action is quite telling here, of course, showing us in all sharp glory what's impossible to make out with the naked eye. Well-timed, executed and framed.

Seaching Shadow
by jaysonmc

Comment:
Wonderful lightplay from soft grain to hard contrasts.
The arrow-like silhouette entering both image and the (depicted) room does so as softly as it provides the dominant point of interest. The light cast forward into the dark echoes the geometry without completely defining it. This palliates the ample negative space of the foreground, making it easy to explore and pleasurable to come up empty.

The sharp diagonal stemming into the top right of the image anchors it strongly and without any ambiguities.

This is a quiet capture with an intriguing composition balancing spatial geometries and artifice against incidental ones. The looming, hood-like silhouette, however, provides a little domestic "noire" and just enough humour to laugh at the accomplishment and the trivia of the unknown - delightful!

impasse project
by porcini

Comment:
Inspiring images, a fine selection of 'em, without a doubt the most coherent port on this site.
My hat's off.