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by tomlewis1980

Comment:
"Any peanuts, barman, to go with my pint?". With 300mm lenses in everyone's collection (except mine!) animal shots are quite common. But they are rarely captured propping up the bar. This is the animal equivalent of a candid! Lovely exposure, nicely interesting diagonal feature created by the fence. A great shot.

Boats
by agwright

Comment:
Mmm. I don't really feel pulled to view anything in particular. All the subjects are rather small and non-dominant. "Men at Work" also didn't have a single focus point, but the eye very naturally and curiously went round each man in turn, looking for what each was doing. It also worked as an overall scene, exuding a great feeling of a team working in cold, grey weather. "Boats" doesn't ask me to rest my eye for long on any one subject, nor does it give me an overall mood or feeling. This is a perfectly pleasant and competent shot, but not a patch on "Men at Work".

Tree in Silhouette
by lilnukee

Comment:
I am not keen on funereal borders, but here it doesn't especially detract since the shot itself is a dark one. I like this shot a lot.

Rush Hour
by marbo

Comment:
I kept passing this shot by when viewing the thumbnails. Light trails have been done to death and I wasn't going to viewyet another copy. But every time the thumbnails loaded, I kept catching myself looking first at this one, and finding the red, blue and white very appealing. As you can see, in the end I gave in and came for a fuller view. I love it a lot. The lights of the distant town, the curved road with plenty of powerful black visible. Yum!

Ghost Train
by SirBiggsALot

Comment:
A great angle on the old light-trails trick. The length of the trail is ideal for suggesting a ghost train has just passed through. The snow lifts the picture nicely, too.

forty-five
by johnny_justjohnny

Comment:
I love this. When I saw the thumbnail, I wondered "how can you shoot a road sign in space, or at least from an aircraft?". Yes, the roadsign suffers from this acute angle of view, but the creativity is in using the road sign as a challenge-validating excuse to show that fabulous sky. This pic is now one of my faves.

Uncle Boris wants you!
by vignir

Comment:
I agree. A little dab too bright on the right side. But it's going down as one of my faves, anyway. The idea, the facial expression, the dynamic line created bottom left to top right (by his shoulders) all say to me "advertising / youth magazine".

Jack Daniel's
by tomlewis1980

Comment:
I would be completely content to see this photo appear in The Sunday Times magazine, etc, as it is. It doesn't require any text. So it retains its simple, attractive colours and clean, uncluttered space around the bottle. A totally pro shot.

From the Banks of the Wabash River
by weaverc

Comment:
Mmm. I like this a lot. I am a sucker for night shots.

Dominoes
by BNC

Comment:
I could see by the thumbnail that a lot of thought had gone into this shot. The wood shine, the type of (colourful) dominoes, the choice of dynamic portrait format. I would have loved to have seen this shot with the background as black as a coal bunker, just to see if it enhanced the mood at all. Very pleasing to look at.