Of fur and peanuts
by vawendy

Comment:
Wattacapture! Trained squirrel?

please
by jmritz

Comment:
Careful. You're being watched. voted earlier

lines of resistance
by daisydavid

Comment:
Love the texture and undulations of these primordial roots. voted earlier

ta-dah
by PennyStreet

Comment:
What a show even well past her prime.

Green Velvet
by Bensted

Comment:
Moody green and dark. Never thought velvet had texture. voted earlier

Call of the Wild
by BarbB

Comment:
From wolves in Alaska to the a lizard in the prairie is quite a leap of inspiration. It's a good wildlife shot, technically well exposed and detailed and could merit a 6 or better except for the lack of topicality. 5

Oliver Twist
by GeneralE

Comment:
The neat haircut and mature brow don't suit the street urchin. Technically, the foreground oof area doesn't work either. Arguably, you may be trying to draw attention to the sharply focused spoon but it doesn't work as technique because other elements would have to be similarly oof, especially his cuff, ear and the aforesaid brow. 5

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
by nam

Comment:
Good enough as a serious young portrait, but there's nothing to hint at his artistic side. Photographically, although the skin tones work well enough, the background colors are muddy the forms have no clear compositional purpose and therefore become distracting. I think black & white treatment could have been much stronger and eliminated the color issues. 5

Catch Her in the Rye
by IrvineJames

Comment:
No pun intended eh? Hard to say she is inspired by the novel of similar name. Photographically, as a portrait the lighting effects dominate and distract from her face and those pearls. The result is harsh and not very appealing. 5

Lord of the flies
by nygold

Comment:
Brilliantly staged and photographed. Perhaps the only image in the challenge which faithfully represents the book as I remember it. Well done bw. 9