Explorer's Club
by GeneralE

Comment by Jaimeson:
Yikes! A great angle for this photo. It definitely made me feel something when I saw this shot. Great!

Explorer's Club
by GeneralE

Comment by smilebig4me1x:
my goal is to comment on every photo in this challenge..heres urs..good luck..my first thought was to run(thinking dentist tools)

Explorer's Club
by GeneralE

Comment by CEJ:
You kow, the dentist is my least favorite place to be and this just creeps me out - is is exactly this view that does it! Well done!

Black(bird) and Blue
by GeneralE

Comment by GeneralE:

Originally posted by rktdesign: LOVE the comp and DOF of this image...I also really like the super limited color pallette..that eye is perfect! ...really nicely done.

Thanks!

Originally posted by amber: I like the ggraphic quality of this image. With the bird sitting up above too it reminds me of Hitchcock's 'the birds' :)

Yeah, that's the idea, or maybe Poe's raven. I only got part of the bird partly because he was not very cooperative about sitting still, and I wanted to use one in-focus : )

Headed Home
by GeneralE

Comment by GeneralE:

Originally posted by LadeeM: I gave this a low score (higher than your average, tho), mainly because I didn't get it. I thought it was a child "headed home". I did get the feeling of poverty, which I connected to the darkness theme. I can imagine it's hard to get a photo of a homeless person. Alone, it's a good photo, but coupled with the other dark photos of this challenge, it didn't really stand out much. However, I think it deserved better than a 3.8. That's just silly! :)

Thanks. I thought that one patch of darkness, especially with that bright line leading straight to it, would be enough "physical darkness" to qualify.

The far more important connection to the topic is the metaphorical one, that in the richest and most powerful country in the world, able-bodied men are reduced to sleeping under freeways. The houses up the street, less than 100 feet away, are selling for over a half-million dollars.

Headed Home
by GeneralE

Comment by LadeeM:
I gave this a low score (higher than your average, tho), mainly because I didn't get it. I thought it was a child "headed home". I did get the feeling of poverty, which I connected to the darkness theme. I can imagine it's hard to get a photo of a homeless person. Alone, it's a good photo, but coupled with the other dark photos of this challenge, it didn't really stand out much. However, I think it deserved better than a 3.8. That's just silly! :)

Explorer's Club
by GeneralE

Comment by hopelessoptimist:
I feel nauseous. [shudders] Nice title.

Black(bird) and Blue
by GeneralE

Comment by pawdrix:
I'm not too fond of the crop. There might be too much in frame which draws attention that is out of focus which is hard on my eyes.

Headed Home
by GeneralE

Comment by yeoua:
The model is too centered... and the weeds almost overtake the boy in terms of importance in the scene.

Black(bird) and Blue
by GeneralE

Comment by RKT:
LOVE the comp and DOF of this image...I also really like the super limited color pallette..that eye is perfect! ...really nicely done.