Barge and Bridge
by inspzil

Comment by galblue:
lacking in colour, what a grey day

Barge and Bridge
by inspzil

Comment by mnast:
The Great Lakes Trader...I love this boat, she delivers limestone to my plant in Green Bay, Wisconsin. Nice photo!

Barge and Bridge
by inspzil

Comment by brianeden:
like the shot. wish it wasn't so dark.

Barge and Bridge
by inspzil

Comment by decoteau:
I really like the composition, but the color is a little washed out. Perhaps another opportunity on a sunny day would have helped to get the red ship to stand out a bit better.

Barge and Bridge
by inspzil

Comment by justine:
Giant barge, big water. Looks like a cloudy day there. Score 6 Justine

Barge and Bridge
by inspzil

Comment by DougPaz:
Good composition, I wonder if you could have made it just a bit less dark or more colorful with saturation though.

Barge and Bridge
by inspzil

Comment by Ricky Cleave:
the horizon looks slanted

Fireside
by inspzil

Comment by emorgan49:
This is the kind of picture that doesn't do well on crappy monitors. I think that explains a lot of your poor marks. I wish you had submitted the cropped versions I saw afterwards. I bet you do too.

Fireside
by inspzil

Comment by inspzil:
My negative space kind of goes without saying. It was too much space. I was sort of torn between cropping or not. My wife's opinion was to not crop. So I left it as is. I like it better this way. But I think I might have done better if I did. I was lost Sat. before the challenge. I figured if I did turn something in, it would be something too produced and sort of cheesy. I happened to be at a bonfire and saw this shot. I ordered my son to stay still and had my daughter get the camera. I took about 10 of him, fixing the exposure after each one. I took about 10 of my middle son too who is naturally a little more photogenic, but also much more antsy. I saw this one and knew it was the one. Problem solved. Then I submitted it and it started off pretty well. And as the days passed, it went down and down and down. I was hoping to do a little better than 160th place. Thats not something to be proud of. But I like the shot regardless of what you all think. I did get a couple of nice comments too. Thanks to everyone for looking at this. Thanks for the commenters, good, bad or otherwise. I need the comments.... I really don't know what I'm doing good or bad, so they are really beneficial.

Fireside
by inspzil

Comment by karmat:
I really like the lighting on this. And he looks so innocent sitting there. karmat