Controlled Chaos
by jeger

Comment:
This didn't come up in the partial voting I did. It's just wonderful. So well seen. I love the "splashes" of green and blue with white bands adjacent to them. Also the fans of feathers in the extended wings. Congratulations on a top 10 finish.

Old Meets New
by PennyStreet

Comment:
Congratulations on being member of the week. I really like this image. You managed the placement of the reflections against the horizontal curving lines really well.

Message edited by author 2010-03-08 12:14:45.

Early Morning in Central Park
by bcrants

Comment:
I like the shapes and patterns of the bench and the use of black and white. It feels like the bench is the main subject so to my eyes the right half of the picture is mainly a distraction, visually. I think the image would be improved with much of the right side cropped.
Later: this does not bother me now nearly as much as it did originally, perhaps just a slight crop to eliminate that tall tower!! Bump ...

Urban Oasis
by toddw62

Comment:
Interesting POV and great processing. However, I find that my eye is jumping back and forth between the person and their shadow and the bright falling water, never settling anywhere. This creates a slightly uncomfortable feeling.

Poetic Motion
by mpeters

Comment:
Took me a second to see the wind farm on the horizon, and I like the combination of that with the geese in flight. The back lit clouds are lovely. This is an image that grows on me, but there seems to be somewhat of a noise problem in the clouds in the top half of the image.

Perfume Delight
by liberty

Comment:
Beautiful shapes in this opening rose, and some nice back lighting on parts of it, but the processing has destroyed any feeling of softness in the petals, and looks like it introduced some unnatural colors.

house of the rising sun
by skewsme

Comment:
Lovely.

Fallen Angel
by Hussar1812

Comment:
Interesting expression and composition, but for me this feels too tight of a crop, especially given the pose. To me it ends up feeling like a picture of someone trying to fit inside a box or something.

At the Locks
by franktheyank

Comment:
Lovely shape to this framing object, which I assume is a sculpture of some sort. I like how its shape "echoes" the shape of the arches behind. I find the patterns in the sculpture just a "tad" distracting, but overall its wonderful shape manages to offset that!

Some Frames are a Little Subtle
by grgkopanas

Comment:
But visually powerful, nevertheless.