Abe Has Visitors
by jdincolsprings

Comment:
Nice job. I especially like the contrast of white/old(dead)/sharp vs. black/new(living)/blurred. -stephan

Toronto, Ontario...eh
by zadore

Comment:
Creative shot! Very interesting. Apart from the nice tower I also like the motion blur of the train in this picture. It adds to the overall weird look of the photo. I guess you used a reflective surface to create this "warp" effect? If not, I really would like to know how you did it. -stephan

The Round Corners of my Digital World
by TimPro

Comment:
Are that the magnetic discs of a 5.25" floppy disk around the CDs? You still have those? You must have a really old computer ;-)
The photo itself looks a bit busy. Also because of the distorted lighting and all the colours. -stephan

Stairway to Heaven
by Frank Beckman

Comment:
I especially liked the telephone poles on the left and how they repeated the form of your main subject. In fact, I even would have liked to see more of them. Now, after your explanation, I also understand your intent of the negative space and I must say: well thought. Unconsciously both things (plants in the foreground and the telephone poles) did exactly what you described. I agree with the others who think the lighting is a bit dark. It looks like a bright sunny day but somehow there is not enough contrast.

Evening Prayer
by stephan

Comment:
As already described in the details the photo shows a mosque. So, no there is no cross ;-) I thought one could recognise this because of the crescent moon, the symbol of the islam. But it probably was too small. It was not possible to show more of the minaret because there were other buildings below, which would have made the photo even worse.

But the mosque was not intended as the primary subject. The negative space had a meaning. I titled the photo "evening prayer". A prayer is when somebody talks to god. The sky/heaven is something what many people associate with god. So the sky was a metaphor for god and the mosque was only there to give a hint about that.

Well, only 10 comments... I guess it was too farfetched and not really possible to understand without some explanation and just by looking at the photo. So everybody just saw a boring sky with a too short spire. I don't say that with the explanation the photo is necessarily less boring. I primarily submitted the photo because I liked the colour scale from the light yellow in the bottom right corner to the blue.

Anyway, thanks to all for setting me straight ;-) I hope I'll do better photos in the future.

Keyhole
by shutterfly

Comment:
The hole is quite a bit out of focus, which directs the eye to the distance. But the eye finds there nothing (only white overexposure). So I would either focus on the hole or put something interesting to see in the distance behind the hole. -stephan

Special Delivery for St. John's. Right on Time.
by ninauller

Comment:
Good composition, the emtpy sky nicely attracts the eye to the subject. I would like a little more DOF, the tips of the wings of the bird are out of focus which (to me) looks a bit strange. -stephan

Framed
by lmhr

Comment:
Wonderful example of use of framing as an compositional element. -stephan

Windows
by Jak

Comment:
Nice composition. The diagonals are very effective. I also like the colouring. I don't know if you were aware of it when submitting the photo but there was a very similar photo in the "Free Study" challenge: //www.dpchallenge.com/image.asp?IMAGE_ID=3254
I score your photo on it's own merits but I think the other one is even better because of the dramatic sky. Also your photo seems to have some problems with JPEG compression (artefacts). -stephan

Memento Mori
by greenem2

Comment:
"Remember your death". Creative approach to the challenge. I like that. The face depicts the memento mori theme fine. The lighting is interesting. However it has a bit too much contrast for my taste. -stephan