Time In Motion
by kposey

Comment by GeneralE:
I think this would look better with softer lighting and letting the pendulum blur.

Time In Motion
by kposey

Comment by chrysalis:
Would have been better with stillness and motion as contrast.

Time In Motion
by kposey

Comment by Gracious:
I\'d like this so much better if you\'d shown the entire clock. I don\'t really understand why you chose to crop where you did. 5

Time In Motion
by kposey

Comment by Turbotech:
Does the Photo fit the Challenge (5)
Colors(6)
Composition(4) Cut half clock out. :-(
Focus(6)
Background(4)
Lighting (4) slightly harsh.
Title(4)

Overall Score (4.71) rounded to 5

Time In Motion
by kposey

Comment by BAMartin:
While this photo does convey movement to me, it is quite static. I believe that is from the "straight on" composition and how the subject is centered. Did you try this in a verticle crop as well? That might have worked better for me.

Time In Motion
by kposey

Comment by mcrochip:
This would be better as a long exposure/slow shutter - maybe with the pendulum going all the way if your camera can do it.

Time In Motion
by kposey

Comment by marbo:
You could have turned the camera round to fit it all in.

Time In Motion
by kposey

Comment by tomzinho:
where is the motion?

Time In Motion
by kposey

Comment by catpixel:
I would have used a long-ways shot here, to show more of the chain and not cut off the top. Also, this would fill the picture more and leave out more of the blank wall.

Anasazi Kiva and remnant of snow
by kposey

Comment by emorgan49:
Hi- Critique Club here - I gave your picture a 7 originally. Now I'm coming back to review it. Looks like your score suffered mostly from people not knowing what a Kiva was (or Anasazi, or snow for that matter). I wonder if the title had been more explicit like Native American Ceremonial Yada Yada, you might have avoided the "didn't meet the challenge" comments which were viewer ignorance.

That said I think this picture falls into the "Could have been so much better" category. Compositionally it leaves me wanting something more. Like where IS the sky anyways, and what about the other half of the circle. Although I like the half circle so I'm not sure what is missing. The viewers eye follows the circle around but it never comes to rest on any central focal point.

The contrast between the pale colors outside the hole and the rich colors inside the hole could have been better, maybe less dark inside, To show that the power of the scene rests inside the circle. Maybe the warmer reds in the hole could have been enhanced to stand out from the hazy blues of the background? You also have a great contrast of texture going on..The small sand in front and the small trees in the back compared to the uniformly sized but varied colored rocks lining the Kiva.

Perhaps the sand in the foreground really looked like that but it appears to be a bit over sharpened. Perhaps there is too much forground all together. That forground color and texture are not as interesting as others in the picture. It looks better to me cropped about an inch off the bottom, say where the inside rim touches the left frame.


The lighting is soft but the shadows are harsh, maybe repeat the shot on a less-than-unusually nice day. I think that with some cropping and some fiddling with the brightness and color balance this could be a stunning photo. As it is it is a keeper and deserved a much better score than it got.