The Engine
by Tom_Robbrecht

Comment:
Wonderful industrial nostalgia, lovingly rendered, misappropriated -to my senses- by an obituary decor: the border.

Desolation-2.jpg
by Coley

Comment:
I prefer this version (2) to the tighter crop. The road -the variation of thirds it marks, its vanishing line, the textural contrast -gravel vs. the lush field left along the cut turf, the sky-like clay-grey, without which the story this image has in it is lost to us.

An ominous vacancy presented without a border and sans embellishments of any kind.
I can easily appreciate the allegoric quality of this image, but I love its truth and unadorned plainness.

san juan streets
by sevilduvarci

Comment:
Great use of the found/givens for a refreshing composition and an eye good and quick enough to catch a cat leery of a Pisaesque geometry...

The Violin Lesson
by e301

Comment:

Originally posted by posthumous: This is fun, and allegorically profound, and visually profound with all those layers of beach, puddle, beach, pool, beach, ocean. And the title is the coup de gras! 9

O yes!

Father and the Son
by Joey Lawrence

Comment:
Very strong, despite a lil noise and the obituary border. :-) The title, of course, is so well chosen, it contributes much.

Dhyâna
by AdrienneGC

Comment:
Exquisite, lovely. Immensely fine photography too.

Not Superstitious
by riolobo

Comment:
The contrast is so surreal, the umbrella appears to levitate
like a papier-mache circus wheel in the sixteenth chapel.

There is, in my view, no better entry in this challenge.

Message edited by author 2006-06-12 11:04:25.

Armorvilla
by Kronus

Comment:
The colours, the asymmetry of the walls, the
fact that the armadillo is made from authentic armadillo
associated with opulent romance on an old grade-one blackboard,
the apparent naiveté of set-up versus a killer perspective, these

are all crazy enough and presented in such contiguous taste and harmony...
as to corrupt my otherwise impeccable principles and prejudices, so
that I cannot help myself as I am awarding this magic a score
conventionally reserved for dead photographers.

Message edited by author 2006-06-12 11:02:19.

Exit
by zeuszen

Comment:
> rich

The (material) subject is a bench placed in front of the actors' backstage tent at the annual Shakespeare Festival in Vancouver, BC, either to accommodate smokers or to prevent unauthorized entry - I'm not sure which.

What prompted the photo was the dramatic scarcity of objects and a perceived timelessness of the scene. Perhaps it can be said that the emotional subject is a sort of contemplative drama void of action but aesthetically symbolic (the draped folds of the tent so suggestive of stage curtains). Thus the hue I chose for it...

I find it difficult to say much about so little, really. ;-)
(Thanks for your comment).

Message edited by author 2006-05-25 14:49:49.

light and shadow
by ArpeggioAngel

Comment:
This is a great subject, but a little challenging to photograph nicely without merging two separate exposures in pp, because of the considerable variance of light and shadows. Ideally, I'd expose for a) a mid-shadow and b) the sky, being careful to avoid blow-outs. I think it would be desirable to achieve good depth in this shot, as both mid- and background form a single (flat) horizon (the result of perspective here).

Also, a slight rotation to the right should straighten the horizon.