Kitchen tools
by clickodak

Comment by Cyrilda:
Lovely composition. 7

Emerging
by clickodak

Comment by snaffles:
Greetings from the Critique Club! Very interesting image here, Marcel, and had to laugh at the comment about it looking like the cover of a self-help book :-) I do think the way the flower echoes the shape of the hand is very cool, and the colours complement each other well. In terms of getting across the idea of hands, the hand is competing with the flower. That's why I think it finished relatively low. You do have quite a bit of chromatic aberration (aka 'purple fringe' on the right side of the hand, and it looks like the hand texture is overlaid atop the flower, which makes the flower have a skin-like appearance. Overall not a bad idea, tough to pull off, but at least you had a nice clean hand to work with :-)

Susan

Cactus
by clickodak

Comment by tanguera:
This could have used some brightness. Love the "cactus" angle :)

Kitchen tools
by clickodak

Comment by kiwinick:
nice idea and good design like it

vote 6

Emerging
by clickodak

Comment by colorcarnival:
I don't know why but this screams 70s at me. Like it's part of a self help guidance book. It's a very clever idea for this challenge.

Shape
by clickodak

Comment by kiwinick:
Nice Idea makes a good pattern as well

vote 5

Piece of watermelon on fork
by clickodak

Comment by sidpixel:
Hello from the critique club

An interestng image that meets the challenge well.

Nicely done Marcel. This is a lovely strong graphical image with bold colours and good composition. Technically everything is good, accurate focus and DOF against a nice plain background with the fork very nicely lit and contrasted against the bold red of the fruit and blending in nicely with the background. The seeds break up the foreground nicely too, all in all a very pleasing result, well done.

Piece of watermelon on fork
by clickodak

Comment by streetpigeon:
Graphically elegant and luscious.

Emerging
by clickodak

Comment by kiwinick:
Clever , Aye vote 8

Dropout
by clickodak

Comment by sidpixel:
Hello from the critique club

An interesting image that meets the challenge well.

A simple image that conveys a feeling of loneliness and isolation but more than that it portrays the stress that results from the pressure school children are subjected to at this time of year with all their exams. I like your low level viewpoint and shallow DOF to isolate the person and their belongings it works well. I donĂ¢€™t know if it was posed or an opportunist moment, nevertheless it still gets the message over, well done Marcel