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by CLarson557

Comment:
Person on a motorcycle?

Why?
by Paulk

Comment:
Hmmm. Could have been a good presentation but it lacks any decent composition and the title robs it of much useful interpretation. Frankly this is just someone else's presentation submitted here for this challenge. Whoever made this display is the original creator of this work. Good idea, just not an original presentation of it. Perhaps a trip to an army base where I'm sure you could have gotten an action shot of a tank firing or soldiers in BDU's in a mock assault. Even a shot of a building in Europe with bulletholes or bomb damage would have been a more moving (and original) presentation of this concept.

Shipwreck?
by BAMartin

Comment:
Too much smile. Maybe toss in some debris, too.

Hmmmm..... I Wonder.........
by macox

Comment:
Good subject.

I have a difficult time enjoying the keys fully because my attention is drawn down the line of the keys to the bottom of the picture. I think if the keys were shot landscape rather than portrait (where the straight lines were more horizontal than vertical) then the attention could center more on the keys and the potentialities they provide. The difference in the lighting between the keys at the back and the front is so great that it creates a couple of areas rather than a continuum of possibility in which all the keys exist. I would like to see a more homogenous lighting scheme (preferably darker) to hint at the potential caches locked away without these keys.

Creative take on the challenge

Act of God?
by kebmod54

Comment:
This touches on a theme that many people have wrestled with regarding events that are perceived to be malevolent occuring in the community of people that consider themselves beyond such events for whatever reason.

It shows trust by the composer of the image that viewers would have at least encountered this type of question before and, thus, the image gains widespread power to evoke emotions (whether visceral hatred for questioning a seemingly divine act or bemusement at how some people could continue to believe some things when an event like the one in the photo happens).

I could have done with a slightly tighter shot; perhaps losing a little of the sky at the top and the lower building at the left hand side.
Good job with the subject.

My Last Smoke?
by buzzrock

Comment:
Wow.

Nice take on this challenge. Personalized, off center, good use of colors/tones, love the depth of field.

This shot may be my favorite for this contest. The composition of the image is as close to flawless as I wiould be able to distinguish and the creatively personal approach implies vulnerability that aids the viewer (or at least this viewer) to put himself/herself into the place of the artist. Having never smoked but had friends who smoked for years; this captures the essence of a question that I can understand; namely, am I strong enough this time to do what I say I want to do. The subject could have as easily been a spoon of ice cream (gluttonous) or a used condom (lonliness) to express the very human question of why we perpetuate self-defeating behaviors when we say we want to stop them.

Good job.

Abandoned village,why they left?
by pitsaman

Comment:
Some subjects lend themselves to this contest more readily than others. Congratulations to you on getting this subject.

Nice photo. What lens did you use? I'm interested in the composition as you got a good, long view of this setting.

Unknown
by sher

Comment:
Good subject(s).

Wow. I'm loathe to critique this as I like it so well but I wonder how this would look with only the front marker cropped in to the right and some grass on its left to make it asymmetrical. That way I think you'd get closer to a duotone color and you'd pickup some creative import with that.
I'd also like to see a shorter depth of field so that if you left the lefthand marker in the image it would be more out of focus. I think this would lend a signifigance to the marker in the foreground.

I do like this composition, though. I like the cropping and the coloration. What media did you capture it on? Did you get this idea and go looking for this shot or did you happen upon this shot and just submit it for the contest?
Good job.

What am I?
by WILDBLUE

Comment:
Sparkler? Fuse? Neither seems ingeneous.
Perhaps a question that would have gotten me involved more would be:
How did I get my camera this close without messing up the lens or body with some stray particles?

Survive
by eikidigi

Comment:
Wow. I like this composition. It works in color.

I might crop it tighter to the right side (cutting out the left 15-20% up to the first white bud).

I just don't think this works for this challenge. It speaks to me of freedom or overcoming challenges. It is well composed with the flowers overlapping the chains but it just doesn't leave me with questions as much as it evokes a lightening of burdens/release from weights.