Dawn On The Quad
by JakeKurdsjuk

Comment by Coley:
Just saw this.
Great light
This is a simple composition that works really well ... nice

Midtown Ferry Terminal - Going Up?!
by JakeKurdsjuk

Comment by JakeKurdsjuk:

Originally posted by tanguera: Congrats on the blue! Looks like you've finally figured this place out :)

Yeah, that'll be the day. LOL

Midtown Ferry Terminal - Going Up?!
by JakeKurdsjuk

Comment by tanguera:
Congrats on the blue! Looks like you've finally figured this place out :)

Midtown Ferry Terminal - Going Up?!
by JakeKurdsjuk

Comment by JakeKurdsjuk:

Originally posted by PennyStreet: Congrats... very well seen. I'd love to see the original.

Here ya go...

Original:

And reversed:

Midtown Ferry Terminal - Going Up?!
by JakeKurdsjuk

Comment by PennyStreet:
Congrats... very well seen. I'd love to see the original.

Midtown Ferry Terminal - Going Up?!
by JakeKurdsjuk

Comment by nygold:
Congrats on the red. Well done.

Midtown Ferry Terminal - Going Up?!
by JakeKurdsjuk

Comment by JakeKurdsjuk:

Originally posted by PennyClick: Great image. Well seen. Love the tones, and the splash of red. Did you consider a horizontal flip? I know I would have done just to see if I preferred a left to right flow within the image rather than the right to left one we see here. Ties with one other image for my highest score and I hope to see it ribbon.

Penny, yes indeed, I did try it flipped horizontally. In fact, my initial edit was done this way because I did a 180 degree rotation of the original image. I liked it just fine, but then decided to try it the other way, because it is the same basic angle that I saw the room from in the first place. When I did I found that I preferred this one. Why? Perhaps because it reminded me of the original, unflipped view, and maybe because I felt the left-to-right leading line was a little more traditional, where the right-to-left felt "off" in a good way and might help with the disorienting of the viewer and delay the discovery that this was actually upside down.

A Study In Yellow
by JakeKurdsjuk

Comment by JakeKurdsjuk:
Thanks for the comments, all. This is actually a tight crop shot with a 70-200mm and not technically a close-up. The details in the center of this flower caught my eye and I wanted to capture it, and as I processed it I realized that they eye was distracted by more and more of the background objects so I cropped in to this. I'm glad it was as appreciated as it was - I don't have a lot of backlog to pick from for these deep challenges.

I agree that the dark spot can be distracting, but I didn't want to crop it out because I liked the parallel look in the bokeh, and it helped you realize the size of the flower since it is more obviously a sunflower. In retrospect I should have dodged it a bit to make it less obviously dark.

Midtown Ferry Terminal - Going Up?!
by JakeKurdsjuk

Comment by clickodak:
Congratulation for the ribbon

A Study In Yellow
by JakeKurdsjuk

Comment by Marfun:
Purely subjective, but I find the the bottom left dark spot very distracting, would of liked a tighter crop better