To Cross a Stream
by nam

Comment:
You set a beautiful mood here with just the right amount of softness. Putting the action of the stream into the corner is a nice balance for all the quite in the rest of the frame.

Welland Canal Bridge #5
by vlado

Comment:
Not the sexiest bridge in the challenge, but I think you squeezed all the drama you could out of what you were working with. Well framed to bring in that lovely cloud filled sky and the on coming ship.

Under the Vimy Memorial Bridge
by FromDaRock

Comment:
Wow. Just lovely. I had to google the bridge, and this is far and away a better shot than anything above the roadway. the inclusion of those shiny rocks in the foreground really make the shot sing. Ought to ribbon.

Bridge of Sighs
by Sisto

Comment:
Beautiful stillness you captured, and I like the softness of the water and the quiet colors. I would have liked a bigger image to bring me closer that you could have gotten by editing out the top 1/4 that does not add much to the story for me.

Venezia
by MichaelC

Comment:
Lovely the softness of the reflections balance out well against the crispness of the buildings, yet I find myself scrolling up for a bit more of the buildings than are in the frame. Ought to ribbon.

Praise the bridge that carried you over
by CocoCoco

Comment:
Great heft and drama with perhaps a bit too much contrast. The underside of the bridge and the buildings could have used some more middle grays. Top 5

Flood Tide at Evening, Coy's Brook
by Bear_Music

Comment:
A lovely set of textures here, especially in the water, and while the rays of the sun work well, I expect some will object to the lens flare stealing the drama from the stand of trees.

Turbulent Flow
by Melethia

Comment:
This is a shot that rewards slow inspection. I love the little holes of focus and the oblongs of blur. I agree with skewsme about the top distracting from the action even it if provides much needed green for the challenge, it steals power. If you view a shot for 3 seconds in scoring, this level of complexity is tough to enjoy, and on that level it is a "meh" shot, not super green, not at all simple. The correlation between a great photograph and great entry in a challenge is not robust.

Only the Good Die Young
by chazoe

Comment:
This reminds me of those long ago handbills for punk shows. Both in content (youth don't five a f*ck about you) and the high contrast in your face editing (a look that started because of printing on cheap paper for mass distribution, and became a it's own aesthetic). I like it alot.
That said, if you actually care about getting a higher score on this site I have started looking at my editing here as I do for my cooking at a dinner party. Have a little something for everyone, and spice to soften and fill out flavors rather than to heighten one flavor. If you had edited this as if it was a glamour shot with a soft glow to the skin and lots of pretty detail in the bricks, I bet it would have done about 6.2. Harsh shot gets soft edit, soft shot gets harsh edit, so you can please more of the people, more of the time.
Now I need to get a shot of my daughter flipping off the camera in a challenge and see if I can do it so it offends fewer people by making the edit sweet enough to send diabetics into a coma.
Or you can just go with the old punk philosophy, if they don't like it, f#uck those people, this is our music!

Canyon Overlook
by scarbrd

Comment:
There are far more creative shots in this challenge, but this is the best. Some times a deftly handled straightforward presentation of the subject matter is the best approach. And this is a spectacular landscape.