Back to the age of black and white
by johnmk

Comment by kyrielle:
A great shot. Just enough space above and below to frame the boats, and you let them dominate the picture as they should. The lines are nicely crisp, especially considering that's without any sharping edits available. A hint of compression artifacts on the edges of the rolled sails, maybe in the water (not sure) and at the bow of the white boat, but fairly minor - not the kind that jump out of you.

Medical Insight
by johnmk

Comment by Sherry March:
Clever

Medical Insight
by johnmk

Comment by ionyou:
very nice, I suppose application of this to one's chest could be called ionyou...err eye on you

Medical Insight
by johnmk

Comment by tarique:
The edges show signs of over sharpening - How did you get that eye in the steth bell?

Medical Insight
by johnmk

Comment by amsmyth:
clever, clear, funny, original 8

Water, sun, blue sky, this must be cruise season
by johnmk

Comment by spiller:
I think you were robbed. I liked the colors and composition. Met the challenge in an interesting way. Sorry for the low score.

Back to the age of black and white
by johnmk

Comment by rickhd13:
nicely done with the guidelines we had, composition is nice, well done

Back to the age of black and white
by johnmk

Comment by JTHermansen:
two subject thing is kinda confusing... there needs to be something to offset these, maybe more negative space from the sky, more pronounced difference between the boats, etc.

Come on dear, we're late
by johnmk

Comment by KevinRiggs:
Wonder how this will score with the community. For my money this is a great example of negative space. The space contains active elements but it is subdued and homogenous; not drawing attention to itself but rather creating the atmosphere or ethos of the composition. This would not work for me if the camera was raised much higher as I think that would tend to give emphasis to the ground and it would become more prominent. Likewise, while the buildings to either side are necessary to set an opposing color tone against which the neutral colors create a negative space, too much more of those buildings would have overpowered the central area of the blueish-gray pavement and columns. Good work and I'd like to see how much work it took from you to get this image. How many did you take? - 8

Come on dear, we're late
by johnmk

Comment by kyrielle:
I really like what you've done with this - the way the space takes over, dwarfs your subjects, leaving them isolated and a bit lonely. This is a very strong image and there's no way it would work half as well without all of the space and distance.