Equine
by jonpink

Comment by joshua:
tremendous vision

Equine
by jonpink

Comment by train:
I like the idea and it fits the challenge but I think maybe being a bit blurry distracts from the main idea.

Food fit for a Piscean
by jonpink

Comment by ccraft:
I reallylike this one. The colours are really amazing. It gives the appearance that you shot this early dawn/sunrise, when it may have actually been a regular lamp. I also like the rope. It really adds to the texture of the shot.

Equine
by jonpink

Comment by moodville:
Good texture of the fur, nice coloring, good dof too. Interesting composition also.

Food fit for a Piscean
by jonpink

Comment by alanfreed:
Great DOF and setup here! A super job all around. I like the rope, too. My first 10 of the challenge!

Equine
by jonpink

Comment by nephrotic:
Difficult to make a shot like this look original. It has been done so often. What lifts this one is that you have retained the beautiful chestnut - and there is just enough depth of field. The shape of the pupil is beautiful. I would not normally like an eye so close to the centre of the picture - it totally destroys the rule of thirds BUT I have tried cropping this in every way imaginable and not one looked as good as this. I think that proved that rules like that are (at times) made to be broken.
David

Food fit for a Piscean
by jonpink

Comment by RiderGal:
I like this... the fact that its not straight on... and the dof... very interesting a really nice setup here.. love the detail in the rope etc. Wondering though... would you eat it just like this? hehehe... but I love it... refreshing, nice looking could be in a food magazine or something... maybe a bears food ;-) I also like your cojmposition the lemon in the right hand corner really adds. -10-

Food fit for a Piscean
by jonpink

Comment by GoodEnd:
Good still life. A little more DOF will be greater, the sharp the strings and fish bodies.

Food fit for a Piscean
by jonpink

Comment by scrum8:
A really well done photo. Nice composition, point of view, and clarity.

Vehicle Graveyard
by jonpink

Comment by e301:
Meant to comment on this at the time, Jon, and never got round to it, and then remembered it yesterday whilst out and about so I've come back to find it. Do those noise/too dark comment rile you like they do me - the presumption that you've made a mistake, rather than a choice? I liked this a lot, and still do.

What makes it for me are two particular complementary elements you have going on: the sky disappearing to black top left balances that white car bottom left, and also the darkness of the pile of scrap bottom right: the white car and the scrap also balance each other, which provides great natural framing for the main subject: the crane coming in from the 'vacant' corner, neatly brings the eye to the main car, which process makes the centred composition work well.

I guess I'd have tried to reduce the sharpening artefacts around the edges of the crane arm, but in such grainy (noisy!!) work it doesn't really offend. I guess you knew it was going to get slammed, but I think it's a very strong shot.

Ed