Megalomania
by Remie

Comment by xtabintun:
I like the subject and the slant of the hill, but I think the shot would've worked better if it were a clear day and the hill was brighter. 6

Megalomania
by Remie

Comment by kirsty_mcn:
i love the negative space, and the simple silhouettes. looks fun too!

Megalomania
by Remie

Comment by train:
Not really sure about this image it is stricking yet dull
I am trying to make my mind up about this
It is cleverly positioned in the frame very different and no real detail yet it says so much I think I find this image clever

Megalomania
by Remie

Comment by la maga:
original and really good

Megalomania
by Remie

Comment by bbusybee2000:
This has too much open space up at the top for my taste but an interesting subject..wish could be in closer to the action though

Megalomania
by Remie

Comment by bpickard:
not quite sure about the title. Stark image and composition but perhaps not simple enough..extra figures distract. Being cheeky to my betters, might I suggest just one lower figure...kind of like a kite flyer?

Megalomania
by Remie

Comment by Artyste:
I really like the feeling of smallness you give your subjects here, and the implication that they are "flying a kite" is great too. There's just some factor missing in it that I can't put a finger on. Perhaps it's the sky.. the overcast is just too static for me, although the shading from your silhouetted to the gray, to the lighter gray and white in the corner helps. Still, it's a 7 from me, as it just doesn't "pop" for me.

Megalomania
by Remie

Comment by zeuszen:
Outstanding, simple, surreal - a perfect example of classic photography.

I feel profoundly exhilarated by this unexpected find: a timeless subject which never ceases to excite the imagination, a distinctly deliberate composition, which makes cosmic child's play out of our endeavors, a wonderful detached perspective, something rarely present in contemporary photography.

The dynamic between the near-silhouetted men, accentuated by both intervals and lines is deliciously contrasted with the slumped pose of the flyer hanging from his precarious perch. Even the exposure, trimmed to the sky, where the action is, renders a fine gradation of tones -tangibly.

The portrait format, apt to more than this purpose, employs the whole vertical expanse of sky (all the gauze-like subtlety of it) to counter-weigh the silhouetted base of the image. The effect, although not new, has been so nearly forgotten that, at least to me, seeing it resurrected here so simply feels dramatically new and fresh.

The title, too, moves me like a 24-karat surrealist hyperbole :-), nevertheless distinctly consistent with the visual manner of this remarkable capture.

I have not given out a 10 in about a year or so. Here it is.
-Use it wisely. ;-)

Megalomania
by Remie

Comment by jimmyn4:
I really like all of that negative space. The silhouettes are very nice as well (7).

Megalomania
by Remie

Comment by SandyP:
This is an interesting photo, but I gave it a 5 because I thought there was too much empty space at the top and the actual image was too small in the photograph to suit my particular tastes.