Gate
by Paul

Comment:
Okay, the number, but it's really the tissue montage that makes it soar. Delicate, like paper flowers blossoming in water. Also the lines, a kind of establishing grid that is not unfriendly. Is this your town?
Personal favorite of the challenge.

A Rabbit's Confusion
by vawendy

Comment:
Lovely.

due Feb 29th
by primabarbara

Comment:
What a terrific, creative idea to so cunningly express your happiness through a challenge entry. Great depth of field, with the photo clear and precise, and the two of you blurred but not so much as to keep your faces and mood obscured. Good fortune to you all.
Personal third favorite of the challenge.

Show stopper
by Neat

Comment:
When I first opened this photo I drew back, startled by his stand-out closeness. He's impeccable in front of a more usual street scene. And this street scene is even more interesting with it's dissolution into smoke (or steam or fog, etc.) and glare. Excellent craftsmanship.
Personal co-favorite of the challenge.

DOA
by HUETH

Comment:
Curled up dead leaves are often compellingly beautiful. In their seemingly random disposition, calligraphic innovation, and subtle colors, they seem to have shed their summer for a new life. The background colors echo their recent past out of which is distilled a sharper elegance. Effective depth of field.
Personal co-favorite of the challenge.

The Remains of the Peas
by Bear_Music

Comment:
The brightish green stems and tendrils against the light gray stone are a wonderful idea, and so well handled. A playground for the imagination. Oh, whimsical heraldry, a Hobbit town map, the head of a cow ... Happily arranged. A fine adventure.
Personal co-favorite of the challenge.

The Last Pumpkin
by grahamgator

Comment:
This all squares up nicely, colors, mood, stillness. The modest squash, and its elegant stem, brings much bang for the buck, set off against the green and brown surround. Fun and unpretentious.
Personal co-favorite of the challenge.

Winter Gathering
by nam

Comment:
Personal favorite of the challenge.

sweet dreams
by PennyStreet

Comment:
Dang. My comment didn't make it through. Must be something wrong with my keyboard.
Fascinating in twenty-three ways, though I haven't the freedom to enumerate them at the moment. Okay, here are a few : mood, light, textures, seemingly arbitrary hints, quirky balance, fleeting glimpse of everyday wonder, lines, lines, lines, timelessness, which collides with the challenge injunction, but so what, wondrous tone, the jettisoning of fastidious focus, dreaminess (as noted), what the h-e-double hockey sticks is going on?, etc.. But my original comment was about two short sentences.
Ratings need not apply. You're well along a marvelous journey.
Talked myself up two cherries to ten.

On a cold winter's night that was so deep...
by Bear_Music

Comment:
Lovely, mysterious and spooky, even. Looks like a choir raising silent voices into the forest. The black and white treatment is perfect. Do I detect a blue cast? Moonlight.
Personal favorite of the challenge.