Gold in the Heartland
by posthumous

Comment by ShutterPug:
there is something about the sky - looks mottled or pixelated. When I scroll down to the comment box, I notice that a more interesting crop would have been to crop the entire sky out - leaving just the fainter color trees at the top.

Something Fishy
by posthumous

Comment by agenkin:

Originally posted by jfwolpert: too small and kind of flat lighting

Gotta love this: flat lighting. Yeah, right! :)

Anyways, I like the square crop colour version better, I think. This is still a nice picture, though. The crop form factor is maybe a bit too weird, I am not sure what it does for me. Why did you crop it like that?

Textures
by posthumous

Comment by agenkin:
Mesmorising (sp?)... The rising diagonals give a nice, comfortable feeling, while the hushed tones keep the feeling calmed down. The result is just like looking at the water near the river on a cool day. Just sit and watch, and look at the various forms seen in the water. I'm getting too poetic here, to the point that I don't like it. :)

You May Pass
by posthumous

Comment by agenkin:
Yeah, nice texture and tight framing: I like it. The yellow at the bottom seems to be a little feature-less - blown red channel?

Watching My Own Existence
by posthumous

Comment by agenkin:
A very nice alegory, I'll need to remember it. Would not get it from the picture, though; it would be helpful if the boy's reflection were somewhat in front of him, to infer that he is looking at it, and not something else. The composition is good - you have your fore-, middle, and background going nicely.

Gold in the Heartland
by posthumous

Comment by hyporcrite:
The gold is BRIGHT.

Onion on Wood
by posthumous

Comment by posthumous:

Originally posted by raish: This should not have succeeded here

my thought exactly! perhaps it being an abstract challenge made voters more tolerant of the lack of a subject, the flatness, etc. Then again, I've been known to bomb in abstract challenges as well. I have no clue why this made top 20. That's why I can still suck!

perspective from the mousetrap
by posthumous

Comment by L1:
I thought this was an interesting image...I like the noise and the overall sense of impending doom. ;) I agree that the foreground is a bit large, and would like to see more roof...but overall there is a good emotive quality to it. :)

the white fingers of spring
by posthumous

Comment by Cheerz:
Nice ... I love this.. :)
well...
mine looks like this..
//www.dpchallenge.com/image.php?IMAGE_ID=364477

Hope to be able to get a pic like this one day..

cheers

Onion on Wood
by posthumous

Comment by raish:
Does this leave the good ship suck without a captain?

It's a canvas of a shot - all those things like cropping and balance-within-the-frame and such that I prefer to see than name, are seen and don't need to be named.

This should not have succeeded here as there are # no large fields of primary colour # no hyper-saturation # no unbroken areas without texture to set off the subject. There's hope for us yet.

You might say the understatement sets it off.

Well did.