Sea breeze
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Comment by alonzo4b:
I like the tone and contrast. Particularly like the shadow of the palm tree. Kind of wish that the bush was not on the right but you can't have everything.

Southern Hemisphere Flower Box
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Comment by kiwinick:
I like this one , living down here I can relate to it, This scores with me for the thought and effort put into to produce this image if I scored a 9 would bein order. ps did you know the water spials down the plughole clockwise in one hemisphere and anti in the other?

Southern Hemisphere Flower Box
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Comment by tyt2000:
lol, very nice idea :)

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Comment by KDO:
Indeed. Great statement. The angle is a bit off; iIwould like to see this squared up and rigid like the orders of the sign.

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Comment by snackwells:
Processing a bit coarse, with obvious halos around the contrasty portions.
Otherwise it seems to fit well with challenge theme.

Engulf the pipe
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Comment by e301:
Good subject. The presentation of it is reminiscent of some of the modern 'suburban' school of photography (my term) - those guys who are using the colour scemes and 'simplistic' methodology of the 1970's snp-shot: on-board flash, heavy saturation, disdain for some rules. I like the metallicism of the tap, the reds and browns in the tree ... but its not a school of photography that particularly appeals to me, I'm afraid.

Aussie spring. "November"
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Comment by Gordon:
The rocks really dominate this composition. THe pier less so - in fact it is quite hard to tell what it is initially. The sky is quite featureless and flat and the light isn't the best either - feels like it was shot around mid-day - giving you the very harsh shadows and dark areas in the rocks and pier.

I think this location probably has some potential - on a day with some more interesting cloud forms and later or earlier in the day when the light is better. Around 1 hour before and after sunset and sunrise are great times to shoot landscape shots - the light is beautiful, the shadows aren't so harsh - depending which way this pier faces would help determine the best time though - you want some light on the side of the pier.

Composition Issues:

The horizon doesn't feel straight - this can be quite easily fixed using the skew transform in something like photoshop to tweak it to horizontal. It seems like a little thing but it can be quite distracting.

Horizon placement - it isn't quite along the top third, floating somewhere between there and splitting the middle of the frame - I think with the almost total lack of sky in this shot, I'd have placed it quite agressively high in the shot - maybe even only about 2% of the scene as blue sky, just by tilting the camera down - and probably getting myself to a higher position if possible.

Rock/ sand/ sea composition. The rocks merge with the sea and sand - particularly the two that poke 'up' A slightly higher viewpoint would have had the rocks surrounded by the sand, making them stand out more strongly as a main element in the composition (blue/grey against orange/yellow sand, rather than blue/grey rocks against the blue/grey sea)

Pier - it certainly can make for a strong leading line element - though I think you need to be slightly to the left and shooting more 'in' to the pier for that to work - here it forms a strong vertical line on the right that doesn't really lead off and then further out in the distance starts to lead in to the scene.

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Comment by miaminovice:
Very funny! I like the fact that not all the words are visible -- highlighting the NO NOs. I give this photo a big YES.

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Comment by Super D:
nice pic nice angle

Engulf the pipe
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Comment by Sweetlips:
I like this, the first thing I did think when I looked at this was how long (time passing) did it take for that tree to grow so close to the faucet. Great job! I especially like the contrast of the shinny faucet and the ruffness of the tree. Good Job! bumping to an 8