Tower Crane
by clickodak

Comment by Art Roflmao:
Look! Up in the sky! It's a bird! It's a crane! :)

Cactus
by clickodak

Comment by snaffles:
Greetings from the Critique Club! Perfect settings for captured fireworks and smoke in our national colours, and indeed the result does look like a cactus. I find the silhouette of the bridge to be a minor compositional distraction, but otherwise this is a nice little pic. Only improvement I can thing of would have been to shoot wider to give a sense of setting. Ah well, c'est la vie!

Susan

Kitchen tools
by clickodak

Comment by snaffles:
Greetings from the Critique Club! Never would have guessed this as one of yours, Marcel :-) Very intriguing image and clever with the knife between the tines of the fork completing the fork's reflection. Definitely tools, it might have helped to add a little more, possibly something to provide a hit of colour as there is so much grey in this image. Maybe even just a carefully placed sprig of parsley? I see you shot quite fast for slowing down the speed a lot and using a tripod should have helped to bring in some light and perhaps add some contrast to the tools in question. The basic idea is brilliant, it just needs a little more work.

Keep up the great work and look forward to seeing more of it soon!

Susan

Tower Crane
by clickodak

Comment by kiwinick:
I feel that this photo misses out on the leading lines but is a nice picture

vote 4

Kitchen tools
by clickodak

Comment by tvsometime:
Good visually confounding idea - more effective I think with a crop down to the essentials. 6 anyway

Cactus
by clickodak

Comment by bmartuch:
Very nicely captured.

Shape
by clickodak

Comment by sidpixel:
Hello from the critique club

An appealing image that meets the challenge well.

This is a lovely graphic image. The shape of the fork̢۪s shadow is beautifully formed whilst also creating a sense of intrigue, it works really well. I also love the detail in the fork itself, a lovely combination of reflections and shades that again works very well, together they make for a very appealing combination. I don̢۪t feel, however, that the background does it full justice, I am imagining what this would look like against a white background and I am even more captivated by the vision I have, nevertheless the important parts are there and working really well, I like it Marcel, well done.

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 :)