Burnside Bridge at Antietam Creek
by nova

Comment by Jason_Cross:
Lovely tones on this black and white. Really nice. I love how you are drawn to look at the bridge, your eyes just go right to it.

Burnside Bridge at Antietam Creek
by nova

Comment by vtruan:
nice contrasts

Burnside Bridge at Antietam Creek
by nova

Comment by BrianR:
Not sure if you used B&W in the first take,but this is goodif you had selected the leading front of the bridge, and raised level about 5 would have come up well...8

Burnside Bridge at Antietam Creek
by nova

Comment by rayg544:
B+W works great here! Nice work. 8

Never to be Found
by nova

Comment by DrAchoo:
Gotta love the 24-105L. I use it now for 90% of my pictures. Not everybody here likes selective desat, but I don't mind it. I think it helps here by bringing the boy out of the jumbled background. I can think of 3 reasons why this scored a 5:

1) The lighting. Shooting at noon gave quite a harsh quality to the light. Note the leaves at two o'clock to the boy. Very harsh.
2) The background. Forest can get very jumbled and chaotic. It often becomes unappealing to the eye. I deal with this all the time in the NW, especially with fir trees.
3) Selective desat. Like I said, not everybody likes it and it probably costs you a bit. (not much)
4) Ok, one extra. DNMC. I tend to be fairly liberal, but I can see how the concept might not come across. If the description could have been posted as well, I bet it would have done better.

Never to be Found
by nova

Comment by glad2badad:
Hey! I missed this one. Very nice capture and creative concept. As a parent I can kind of agree with one of the commenters that it's freaky, although artistic. Without a title this could fit in several categories, with the title you've tied it into this challenge just fine.

Compositionally, I think it's put together very well. The positioning of the boy in the bottom right thirds quad, and the trees forming a natural intersection, work quite well. By dropping the green and yellow you've really reduced how noisy/busy I'm sure this image was in full color.

Someone liked it enough to make it a favorite! ;^)

Never to be Found
by nova

Comment by BeeCee:
Wonderful picture, but without the title I would have assumed success.

Never to be Found
by nova

Comment by Friskycat3:
I really like this picture a lot, I just don't see a lot of "failure" in it

Never to be Found
by nova

Comment by Blackdog1:
Scarey.. Good one.. Love the background in B & W..

US Civil War: Battle at Antietam Creek - Link to My Ancestors
by nova

Comment by SJCarter:
Great leading lines in this shot and I think it works very well in B/W. I probably would have bumped up the contrast a bit and done some dodging/burning (if it were advanced editing) - but then again I tend to overdo both of those things! LOL Great capture.