Over the Ohio
by jpochard

Comment:
I'm behind on my comments given / received ratio. Thanks for the excuse to add some simple messages! This must have been a very awesome moment as the sun sunk down behind this lovely span.

Urban Land Lines
by jpochard

Comment:
I love this! Color blocking to make an abstraction of something people usually just walk by is one of my favorite type of images! The diagonal shadows really make it dynamic.

Rockin' Duck
by jpochard

Comment:
I'm one of your 79 7's. You came in 2 places above me in this challenge. And there we are, doomed to have these silly rubber ducks high on our profile pages for ever and ever and ever.... =o!

Precious Gems
by jpochard

Comment:
These are the sweetest "gems" a person can have.

Swallows in flight
by vtruan

Comment:
Wow! 0 comments! (Ok. and I'm guilty, too.)

For me, it was the crop. I really just want to see the 2 birds closest to the top, the others don't add much....or else, there needs to be more space for them all to play.

Swallows are wonderful birds! Probably in the top 10 favorites of all time. They are also exceedingly difficult to capture! I usually just give up and watch them. These lack the deep scissored tail...are you certain they're swallows?

Perhaps you could put a comment on your photog notes...I'm curious what this image means to you.

Parallels of Family, Darkness and Light
by banmorn

Comment:
Well, despite your perfect "5" you can take heart that so many commentors "got it"! It really is perfect for the challenge...and beyond. The tension and playfulness of line in this image should make those under-five voters ashamed! (and if this is your average by the voters, well, I'll just sit here and be jealous)

Thanks for playing in the "closest to 5" thread today!

Deere steel wheel
by undieyatch

Comment:
Challenge victim.

This is a very nice abstract! I love the texture and detail of the rusty metal. Why voters (in the majority) refuse to see the value of such an image is beyond me. I received similar comments about not seeing "what it is" in "Rusted" and continue to receive them in the current "Metal" challenge. I wish I could tell them all to relax and just enjoy what they're presented with...it doesn't have to "mean" anything!

Little Boy Blue
by bobdaveant

Comment:
Looks like you were a victim of people adhering too closely to the "rules" of composition! With the expression on this chaps face, he should be about to hit the frame! Ahh, well, you know the voters....when in doubt, it must be a 5.

Thanks for playing closest to 5 today!

Toad
by sfalice

Comment:
I totally mis-understood "Neon" and here you got it right and got beat up! (I gave up on voting during that challenge, bitter me.)

There's little to pick apart here...maybe the bubbles could have been fresher? Maybe the voters would have been better fooled without them? Who knows?

You have a talent for composition. And a sense of humor wonderfully displayed!

Thanks for playing "closest to 5" today!

Cut connection
by aKiwi

Comment:
Ahh, a perfect 5!

I thought so, too. But that's because, despite your rendition of a cell phone, I hate photos of cell phones and will never rate them higher. (For some people it's babies, cats, and other things I like. For me, it's cell phones.)

I suspect you won't want my technical comments after that, so I'll just say "Thank you for playing closest to 5 today!