Motionless
by rheard

Comment:
Great simplicity, extreme but satisfying composition. The focus is a little too ambiguously soft for my taste and sense. The darker (blue) area appear to reveal some noise.

One of the more truly interesting entries.

Friends
by fotomann_forever

Comment:
This is a pleasant shot, with the partial soft focus aptly applied to the externals only.

I'd consider anything and anyone but the central figure external to this image, really. Perhaps, the soft focus could have been extended even further inwards, blurring all but her strikingly even features, the intense eye-contact? What a shining model!

Once upon a time, there were Quality Clothes
by Grzi

Comment:
Zeus' Top Pic(k)s: 2. Place

an earlier conversation
by grigrigirl

Comment:
Zeus' Top Pic(k)s: 1. Place

How data used to be stored
by Paulk

Comment:
What a grand vision of Old World splendour!

The lighting from the various lamps, chandeliers and respective surface reflections are a little stronger, perhaps, than one would expect in a reading room. The focus, IMO, could be less ambiguous, especially on carpet and ceiling.

Subtracting this, what remains is an exclusive pleasure in brass, leather and mahagony, reserved for the few, not the many (I'll digress and speculate that the truly erudite likely do not thrive in such spectacular airs).

Very topical, grand perspective, great historical record.

Country in my heart
by pitsaman

Comment:
Ah... (in lieu of words).

Simple
by indigo997

Comment:
What a wonderful straightforward photo of simple things! Colours and tones, alone, would have made for a satisfying study. The three planes of washed reds, blues and black make for a natural compositional element, well taken advantage of.

I do question the need to include as much of the red wall, bench and rail (on the left) as has been done here. A somewhat tighter crop here (or a slight shift of the whole image to the left), IMO, would have excluded any reduncy while aligning the groove between threshhold and steps with the corner at bottom right.

The image appears to have been aligned along the crack between door frame (blue) and siding (red). Yet the dark vertical space between frame and door is a little top-heavy (right tilt), probably due to both the aging structure (of the house) and/or barrel distortion. If the discrepancy between the two measures were balanced out, I believe, the overall perception would be one of proper and natural alignment. ??

Despite these minor considerations, a quietly unassuming photo of considerably beauty.

Checkmate!!!!
by kengurinn

Comment:
Persiflage. I commend the author of this image for submitting it, not because it's a technical powerhouse of a photo, but because it demonstrates a sharp sense of humour and a keen eye for that which makes it work.

The somewhat hapless composition and an, apparently, incidental -technique- give the impression of a snapshot taken for no other purpose as to make us laugh., at which task this capture exceeds. The range of the banter, however, is probably limited to the context of DPC.

I cannot help but laugh with it. > 6

Missing You...
by vonautsch

Comment:
I don't really see how anyone would think of two's and three's, yet seven voters did, apparently without explaining why. The 4 and 5 vote, I'm speculating, may have come from those who detected something in this shot they didn't expect and were threatened by it?-

The graph, however, shows that not all is lost, vonautsch. ;-)

fuzzy face
by chalcone

Comment:
Zeus' Top Pic(k)s: 3. Place