We'll Spring Ya, Humpty!
by GeneralE

Comment by nathaliedoo:
can't see much everything is blurred, sorry!

Leading Lanes
by GeneralE

Comment by WILDBLUE:
Good shot. Nice cropping. You might want to try this shot in black & white. 7.

Leading Lanes
by GeneralE

Comment by alanfreed:
I *almost* did something similar with some highways in Pittsburgh, but I went a different direction -- nice job!

Leading Lanes
by GeneralE

Comment by jmsetzler:
excellent architecture shot... the lines are nice, but they are also the subject of the photo rather than leading to a subject or point of interest... - setzler

World of Wire
by GeneralE

Comment by GeneralE:
This was a tricky challenge for me because so much of my thoughts about images lean towards their use in a graphic context, as most stock photos are used. I've posted the original image (cropped but before the color manipulation and a cover mock-up for a fictional trade magazine (frequent users of stock photos) as my image might have been used.
BTW: the basic premise of the story is true (from a radio news report), but all of the details are made up.

Trouble In Paradise
by GeneralE

Comment by JPR:
Excellent shot. Great subject and composition. I would have liked it with more colors or in black and white. 8

World of Wire
by GeneralE

Comment by CreativeFlyPhoto:
not quite sure what you are trying to show here .... i dont really like the color choice ... if it was a blue tone and not as strong i can see it used as some kind of technology background, but right now it's really hard to focus on because of the combo of red and green

Trouble In Paradise
by GeneralE

Comment by Ruben:
This is a good picture, but it fails to convey despair, the flowers contradict it with hope.

World of Wire
by GeneralE

Comment by lisae:
Interesting, colourful abstract shot, but I'm not sure if it's a stock photo.

Gull-able
by GeneralE

Comment by GeneralE:
Thanks for your comments all. I was actually on the opposite dock, so I don't have the excuse of the boat's motion -- I blurred it all by myself. I was on autofocus and I'm pretty sure it picked the far background instead of the birds.
Also I had to crop pretty tight, so I may have lost some resolution/clarity there. There were two more birds on the rail to the left, but they had turned a little, so I abandoned the horizontal framing, which would have been a stronger composition, in favor of the vertical with fewer (but better aligned) birds. I tried a little more sharpening but it resulted in an unacceptable amount of fringing.