Confrontation
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Comment by krnodil:
Very otherworldly processing, certainly takes the mundane to another level. Those dayglo taillights on the background car draws the eye (not suggesting this is either a good or a bad thing, just noting it). I found this shot unsettling, which may count as success given your title - I think what makes it unsettling is the color palette - you've got this dark foreboding sky and overall greyness, evoking emotions contrariwise to the scattered eruptions of pastel-ly colors.

I'm just waiting on a friend
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Comment by krnodil:
I like how that leading line takes you so far back. Personally, I'd crop that white bit of wall off on the right. It would allow the black portion of that building corner to act as a frame, and shift more focus onto the white facade panels leading you to the subject.

Water Lilies
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Comment by krnodil:
Reflections are cool. :) There's lots of lively movement through this shot.

Cat World
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Comment by whiteroom:
let him in. :)

backlighting the rain
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Comment by bleu:
Needs a tighter crop at th e top. Nice photo. 6

backlighting the rain
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Comment by kaarissaa:
this photo is pretty much a silhouette
which it shouldnt be.

Internal Horizon
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Comment by NikonJeb:
It's definitely a posthumous classic! It totally failed my blast-through on the first round, and I never got back to it. Upon inspection, it has quite a few merits that I missed. I think I'll just go there.

The vertical fencebrace, and the horizontal one give this image the feel of looking through a window to outside. The horizontal one also gives me a feeling of a horizon, though false, and this horizon separates the "back forty" from the barnyard/front meadow.

There's enough detail and allusion in the image to carry the rural, and the division of the fencebraces once again, gives the entire image more volume. The clouds help.

It's a very interesting work and the B&W is a must with the shadows, textures, and division.

I like it now that I've bothered to look at it for a bit.

ETA: I just read the description and saw that my take on this without knowing it was a window was wrong, but I'll just leave it as it is. I hope you're amused!

Message edited by author 2007-08-23 22:12:02.

backlighting the rain
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Comment by jblaylockrayner:
The pic is a little dark and heavy and the sky at the top puts the composition and balance seem off - Needs a little more interest to keep us looking.

backlighting the rain
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Comment by DistantColours:
Good composition but the image looks a bit flat.

The Vortex of Reaching
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Comment by muur88:
For a minute there I thought it was a big tongue slipping out to lick the face of an unsuspecting couch surfer.