rusty's hand
by muckpond

Comment by ivash:
Orange does not struck me as a primary colour on this picture

rusty's hand
by muckpond

Comment by melonious:
The color feels a little flat in this, but I really like the composition.

rusty's hand
by muckpond

Comment by Trinch:
The tight crop has stripped the essence of the subject away. Frankly, I don't know what I am looking at. Viewed as an abstract photo, the texture is very well captured and the DOF isolates the subject well, but the relation to the title (a hand?) is lost.

rusty's hand
by muckpond

Comment by missile:
You have got me curious what is it.

rusty's hand
by muckpond

Comment by justine:
Havent we seen this?

FizziCulture: A Magazine about Cocktail Life and Style
by muckpond

Comment by cbonsall:
(I'm writing this to everyone who submitted a landscape shot) The challenge was to produce a shot worthy of a magazine cover but to me a shot like this is not suitable to be put on a "portrait" format magazine.

Great colours but would have scored even higher if it had been portrait.

---ADDITIONAL---
Due to forum discussions and accusations that marking landscapes down is nitpicking, I'm going through them and remarking. I still think some of the landscapes would not make good covers because of their orientation but I am no longer marking down because of that.
I still think landscape is inapropriate for the majority of magazines but I'll give the benefit of the doubt to the photographers.

FizziCulture: A Magazine about Cocktail Life and Style
by muckpond

Comment by Kalhoun:
A pretty good shot. A vertical cropping would have complimented the glass though.

FizziCulture: A Magazine about Cocktail Life and Style
by muckpond

Comment by ChrisW123:
Same problem: Magazine covers should be PORTRAIT orientation, not landscape. Have you even seen a magazine that is longer horizontially then it is vertically?? :)

FizziCulture: A Magazine about Cocktail Life and Style
by muckpond

Comment by Shannons_photography:
Brilliant color use. I think it is wonderful that the glas is ff to the side and not centered, brings out the quality

FizziCulture: A Magazine about Cocktail Life and Style
by muckpond

Comment by Tranquil:
The only thing that I have against this shot is the unneeded shadow to the far left, but that is just personal opinion. 8.