Confined
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Comment by HarveyG:
Nice lighting on the horses back (ridge) and eyes. Bottom rails and grey wall behind horses head a bit detracting. Still a 7

Decrepit
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Comment by GiorgioBaruffi:
good work...

Confined
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Comment by oscarthepig:
Starting from the light at the left, the first think the eye falls on is the horse's rear...sorta looks like it could be someone's head...a prisoner in a cell. The eye continues across the image and finds the horse's head...surprise! This would also look good with the window cropped out, I think. 7

Confined
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Comment by burfino:
A really nice, simple image.

Confined
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Comment by dafletchr:
Wonderful shot. In my top 5!

Confined
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Comment by ArtistGary:
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Confined
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Comment by HighNooner:
The 2nd real C-J I see
7

Confined
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Comment by Lutchenko:
beautiful shot

Oh yeah?
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Comment by posthumous:
Wonderful moment / synergy / feeling. Terrific portrait.

Tentacles
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Comment by KaDi:
Critique Club comment.

Image of patterned dots, clearly fabric from the grain of the lighter portions. A line of dots travels from one corner to another in a pleasing swoop. The image fits the challenge, if marginally.

The interest of the cutouts is lost in the image. Shadows appear in the left and right corners of the non-dominant lines of dots. Without your interesting description this feature is obscured.

It is a graphic presentation that could suggest tentacles...or bubbles...or just a nice pattern for home-wares. It lacks dimension overall and where dimension appears it is side-lined, relegated to the corners. In the lower right corner the dots go curving away...which could be interesting but didn\'t become a feature. I think that paying more attention to the little things would help in an image like this where every little thing plays an important role.

I can understand the fun of exploring a new object with the lens. If you were to re-shoot the subject perhaps you could try playing on the gap of the top fabric from the lower, working on the dimension of the object. More "you" and less "person who designed this pattern" might bring this up a notch.