Cracking A Bud
by Geo_Griffin

Comment by Frankie_Lv:
The glear of the bottle opener kills the photo.

Cracking A Bud
by Geo_Griffin

Comment by dirtkahuna:
You're sure to get some high scores from the beer drinkers out there.

Nice shot, lighting was a bit flat.

Butterfly
by Geo_Griffin

Comment by Simplicity:
nice photo, I like the colors and detail

Butterfly
by Geo_Griffin

Comment by faidoi:
Beautiful colors of the butterfly wings help to make it stand out of the background. I can see some details in the wings. I think a stronger zoom into the wings would give a better composition.

Butterfly
by Geo_Griffin

Comment by Gracechild7:
Blurring out the grass would have made this photo less busy.

Butterfly
by Geo_Griffin

Comment by Everyday Renee:
This would have been more interesting if you would have cropped out more the green grass.

Butterfly
by Geo_Griffin

Comment by amsmyth:
nice butterfly - could you have cropped it even a little more to give it more power over the grass?

Butterfly
by Geo_Griffin

Comment by soup:
the flower is a bit over exposed
the background is abit busy

Drillhead
by Geo_Griffin

Comment by KevinRiggs:
George,

This was a different take on the challenge but I struggle to put my finger on why. It seems to me that more people were going for an esoteric feeling of repetition. In looking at your subject it seems that you have a couple of drawbacks here. The repetition of the drill bit teeth (what I assume you were intending to use for repetition) seems to be competing with the repetition of the bricks in the sidewalk as the sidewalk is not only repetitious but symmetrical and more plentiful. That could be a good contrast between the parallel lines in the sidewalk bricks and the teeth on the bit but with the angle you choose to shoot, the red of the drill head and the yellow teeth are already cast into contention with two other textures/colors in the background. The smooth, tannish/light-colored area that slants up from the bottom lefthand side and the activity of the green leaves. These two textures rob the image of the artistic contrast you might have gotten with just the drill and the sidewalk as a backdrop (as shot from higher above the drill). I can see how this image has multiple focii for the viewer to try and take in and it definitely does meet the challenge of demonstrating repetition. My conclusion is that it sadly overwhelms the viewer rather than presenting a powerful message that is present (and that you saw). Good job seeing the repetition in this; the trouble comes in the translation for the rest of us to see. A backdrop would have helped you tell this story or, as I said before, shooting this at such an angle so that the drill was outlined against the bricks in the sidewalk so that the viewer got more contrast between the diagonal repetition and the parallels of the bricks might have helped, also.

Just my $0.02

Drillhead
by Geo_Griffin

Comment by IMAGINGLERO:
EXCELLENT