"Pig Out" Living high on the hog
by ThingFish

Comment:
Congrats on a really good score in your first challenge! As I said in our PM exchange, you will often receive opposite opinions on the same aspect of your shot. Of course, I was one of the minority who did not like the color cast, but I see many preferred the way it looked. (You know what opinions are like, right?)

Again, a well done first entry, and welcome to the madhouse!

poverty
by lightwriter

Comment:
Most certainly fits the challenge, though it appears a casual snapshot to me. Not sure on this one...

Homeless, Wheelchair Bound, Long Term Unemployed : Colin IS The BIG ISSUE
by hotpasta

Comment:
I expect to see this one in the first page of results.

Street Kid in Sydney
by vlado

Comment:
This looks a little soft and odd. Almost a postcard shot that happens to have a boy in the foreground. A good shot except for that fuzziness in some spots, but it does not convey poverty to me.

All I have
by peter

Comment:
Very well done. I am not sure if this is a staged shot, or a real, on the street image. It does not matter for this challenge, however. The subject was to convey poverty, not necessarily to photograph the real thing.

21st Century?
by cptpoland

Comment:
My first impression of this shot was that it was too busy, however that got me looking at details and reevaluating my original thoughts to give it a higher vote.

Hobo
by Trumpeteer4

Comment:
Looks more like his Halloween costume, and very much a stereotype. The photography is pretty decent, though.

A Home Where Poor People Once Lived
by eaglebeck

Comment:
Seems grainy and/or oversharpened.

Itsy Bitsy Spider
by Budya

Comment:
Very nice. An interesting bit of trivia I recently learned when I posted a pic of one of these on my Flickr page. Somebody else told me that daddy longlegs are arachnids, but they are not spiders. I checked it out and he was right. Apparently, they do not have venom and they do not spin webs, along with some other physical differences.

Miss Independence
by DCrest01

Comment:
Nice layout, though overall the colors seem a bit dull to me. I popped this into PSP to have a look and noticed the histogram was flat on the right 10-15% of the chart. Some easy adjustments would really help this to pop.