Lest We Forget
by Leo

Comment by Tammster:
I like the contrast in this picture. It's a moving photograph. - 6

Age Old Adversaries
by Leo

Comment by Ja-9:
I alway find these spots in towns/cities to be so very cultural...and interesting to sit and watch...excellent tones

Lest We Forget
by Leo

Comment by jeremygrimm:
shadowing of headstones shows great bright and dark contrast

Another Hi Rise
by Leo

Comment by boyd2000:
Greetings from the Critique Club

Congratulations on getting your second best score and by beating your estimate by a quite a bit.

I think you did well on your composition, though it's just a bit crowded on top of the crane and if possible it might have been nice to see the lower part of the buildings.

The completed buildings frame the under construction building well. Your title emphasizes that as well as maybe giving an unfortunate inevitability of progress feeling, but I might be reading too much into it.

As you and another said the sky is pretty blown out. I get the same white skies too often and I haven't figured out the best cure for it. Maybe underexposing it all or exposing for the sky, but then the subject would be underexposed. I think you did the best you could with Basic Editing.

I like the geometric patterns shown in the picture; the horizontal layers of the building under construction, the lines of the crane and the checkerboard pattern of the windows in the completed buildings. The orange on the left side of the building blends well with the orange of the crane and top of the building and nicely offsets the monotone gray of the rest of the shot.

As you said, it would be more interesting with people working on the building. With that not a possibility maybe pulling back some more and getting more of the building and the surrounding buildings would be good.

Overall you did pretty well on this, and a few small improvements may have helped you get a better score.

Lend Me Your Hand...
by Leo

Comment by violet:
I loooooove it!!I hope you get the blue ribbon!!
The title!! very creative

Lend Me Your Hand...
by Leo

Comment by IWhispered:
This looks like a very cool statue. I also like the wave of the reflection in the glass. The colors are a little flat to me though.

Flower
by Leo

Comment by Melethia:
This must have been a pretty small aperture or it's a pretty significant crop - very interesting result!

RR Crossing
by Leo

Comment by Melethia:
Fun toy, isn't it? Play with it a lot. For me, it's really hard to find the sweet spot - I think it's my eyesight, and I've tried playing with the diopter on the camera. In the end, though, I just go with what I get - some are better at it than I am, and that's cool too. (Thanks for the recent comments on some of mine, too - I had to look you up since I didn't recognize your new username!)

Flower
by Leo

Comment by pixelpig:
Ooo the lensbaby. I have yet to try mine on flowers (or anything else). This effect is very subtle, at least to my inexperienced eye.

RR Crossing
by Leo

Comment by Germaine:
Good light and shadow, and nice placement of the sweet spot.