Dreams of Clownhood
by jaysonmc

Comment by kelvinyam:
No sense of challenge.

Thirsty Dog
by jaysonmc

Comment by raish:
Hey, you got a ribbon :-)

Well done for that and obviously for entering 'after your own heart'.

The idea, as I understand it, that you express of wanting to assemble pictorial elements to use the picture as a sort of semi-abstract canvas, is noble but bloody difficult to carry through. I think this may be one of the reasons why the dpc template - and for that matter a lot of other 'arty' pictures - tend to be uber-simple with textureless backgrounds and only one or two things or pictorial elements. They belong on the walls of similarly arranged appartments that make you want to hold your head in your hands and scream like Edvard Munch.

In the case of this I think there's a bit of an empty space above the dog's head in the top left quadrant. The whole thing gravitates to the brown right side. If you've cropped out more green and washout on the left you could try leaving it in and introducing some straight, vertical (abstract) thing to anchor the side. I'm mostly talking out of my arse here, really, but I've heard that sort of thing often enough and who knows? maybe if we think about it an epiphany may come.

There's a brown ribbon in my portfolio if you want it :-)

Thirsty Dog
by jaysonmc

Comment by noraneko:
Jayson, you are a brave man to enter this photo, and I'm glad you got a couple of faves on it! It certainly is counter to the DPC "ideal" of uber-sharp, eye-popping images. I can't say for sure that I like it, but I find it interesting, and want to look several times. And if getting an audience to want to look isn't art, I don't know what is. Well done.

Dreams of Clownhood
by jaysonmc

Comment by indianzfan:
You are kind of reaching, aren't you?

Dreams of Clownhood
by jaysonmc

Comment by mica_r:
A bit of a stretch for the theme, I feel.

Dreams of Clownhood
by jaysonmc

Comment by pwncakesauce:
Doesn't seem very "clown" if you ask me.

Very noisy.

Dreams of Clownhood
by jaysonmc

Comment by McJamweasel:
Dreams of clownhood? Not sure I see that, unless you are aiming for a link with a unicycle in which case I think it's just a bit too much of a stretch. Horizon could do with being straigtened and the focus isn't quite there.

Dreams of Clownhood
by jaysonmc

Comment by two40:
This is really cute coupled with the title. Without it I have no clue that the subject is clowns though.

Dreams of Clownhood
by jaysonmc

Comment by Eyesup:
think he's have a hard time riding that :) also the tilt of the photo is distracting either rotating about a degree CCW or cropping out the land at the top would help

Dreams of Clownhood
by jaysonmc

Comment by oscarthepig:
A bit of a stretch, perhaps, but it's an interesting spin on the theme. The horizon could stand to be leveled though.