the Woods Coffee (and strip mall) Lynden, WA
by kellmak10

Comment:
Great color and very sharp photo! You did good getting the detail in the shaded area of the shop windows and exposing for the awesome sky. I am not a big fan of the fisheye lens for this photo. The curvature at the lower portion of the photo just doesn't look that great.

Tracks
by maddie321

Comment:
This is a good concept. I think the color of the tracks stands out well from the color of the background. One thing about this that could be presented better is the shape.

Untitled
by CJinCA

Comment:
I get the fit to the challenge here and it is very unique and creative. I do think the scene is very plain and ordinary, something seen all the time. What could have possibly jazzed this up is showing the pop of red from the box.

Teak Wood Carved Branch
by Meistroli

Comment:
A good find, however I think this is somewhat out of focus. Also rather than shooting straight on, a different perspective might have helped to add interest by showing the depth of the carving in shadow.

Reflected Branches Framed By Window Branches
by 777STAN

Comment:
I like the reflections shown. It has added interest for that. I think the greyscale is pretty flat. It's not quite black and white, not quite sepia... just somewhat of a grey tone with no real depth. I think the depth issue is from shooting a flat surface pretty much straight on.

honey farms worker takes a smoke break
by whiterook

Comment:
I am not seeing a relationship to the challenge here. Perhaps this is your sister or cousin and there is a branch of the family tree?? Or perhaps Honey Farms is a subsidiary of a much larger corporation?? At any rate, you did good with the lighting on the back highlighting here hair but overall the shot has a fairly unnatural look to it due to what looks like over use of neat image.

in the night
by klkitchens

Comment:
This is just not a very good example of wide angle use for the fisheye.

One
by k9logic

Comment:
I don't know if you were attempting a silhouette through your post processing technique, but it came out with a red band around the outline of the branch. I am assuming this is the inverted chromatic abberation which means that this probably has some blown highlights which you tried to compensate for with the posterization. Unfrtunately, I will be one of your low voters.

Untitled
by SEG

Comment:
Kudos for trying to be unique however I think whatever technique you used in your processing does not appeal to me very much. I think you were going for some kind of cold IR process but really you lost all the detail in the trees. It is interesting for it's shape and composition though. Unfortunately, I am going to be one of your low voters.

waiting at the local branch
by jonkster

Comment:
The pose and the boy in the tree give this a sort of Tom Sawyer storyline to the photo which adds interest however, I think the boy should really be facing you to make this much more interesting, even if he is looking out and not directly at the camera. The B&W conversion is good and really shows off the texture of the tree but it kind of mutes the boy into a dull grey.