radio city music hall.....
by Giles

Comment by giantmike:
I like this. Very different from most entries, and has a nice touch of class.

Girls vs. Landscape
by Giles

Comment by hahn23:
The potholes in the road are a distraction, as is the road itself. I suppose you want the voter to consider the girls to be a distraction, which they often are, but in a different way. Okay, I'll give in. Good quality photo. 9

Girls vs. Landscape
by Giles

Comment by Neat:
The landscape to me isn't all that exciting, mind you neither are the girls, still I guess it meets the challenge.

Turn off your mind relax and float down stream
by Giles

Comment by Giles:

Originally posted by hesitant: The main feature of the picture is the water but the long exposure has rendered it soft and featureless. Check out wizardry 's moving water shots and you'll see much shorter exposures but also plenty of movement and drama. (I know his are mostly waves but moving water is moving water.)

it was shot with a 10 stop nd filter deliberately for the silkyness of the water

radio city music hall.....
by Giles

Comment by tanguera:
Great bokeh

The Guardian
by Giles

Comment by Coley:
Nice effect with the strobe

Turn off your mind relax and float down stream
by Giles

Comment by Giles:
Re the stream maybe it's a missed language but float down stream doesn't mean a stream, stream is the flow the amazon flows down stream as does the Nile etc if the quote was float down the stream then I'd get it but it's float down stream as in go with the flow???

Turn off your mind relax and float down stream
by Giles

Comment by yanko:
Two things jump out at me.

1) It's not a stream so it's already starting to seem like a shoehorn.

2) Composition. It's very strange. On one hand you have the tree line sloping downward, but the water itself appears to be flowing upward from right to left, settling in the center. I'm not sure what the thinking was here, but I don't get a sense of the down stream effect at all. As a result I'm left with the notion that perhaps you failed at trying to get the shot you really wanted and had to settle for this instead. Now technically this probably shouldn't matter, but I do think voters in general let these sorts of feelings affect their vote. I can say without hesitation that it does for me. If I get the sense that the photographer had to settle for something less than ideal then it affects my vote. I didn't vote in this challenge but I'm guessing had I did I probably would have given it a 6 (mostly due to the exposure/processing).

Turn off your mind relax and float down stream
by Giles

Comment by Denielle:
I gave it a 6.

I thought it was a nice shot. But as hesitant mentioned, it seemed a little too soft. And the combination of the water moving and the clouds moving made my eyes not know what area to focus on.

Turn off your mind relax and float down stream
by Giles

Comment by hesitant:
The main feature of the picture is the water but the long exposure has rendered it soft and featureless. Check out wizardry 's moving water shots and you'll see much shorter exposures but also plenty of movement and drama. (I know his are mostly waves but moving water is moving water.)