Sides
by Melethia

Comment:
The best part of this is how the progression of windows & doors on her side is echoed by the line of architectural details low on the columns on his side. It makes a strange little unspoken dialogue between the two people. You know, like the Duelling Banjos song from Deliverance.

Brickline
by Melethia

Comment:
Yes indeed! First photo I've looked at today, and what a great start it is. It's a beautifully balanced image.

On his own
by Melethia

Comment:
I didn't give it a 3!!!!

the tree
by kdogg628

Comment:
I think this is really quite lovely. It's not the flashiest shot here, very quiet and composed (pun intended), but certainly not diminished by any of that understatement. The pairing of the tree with the bench is very thoughtful, and the photograph works so much better with the bench empty. Just imagine a person sitting there ... the photograph would no longer be about the tree, whereas this way it unequivocally is; the bench is just a sidekick, but a sidekick that lends the tree both scale and purpose. I had it at 7 until it slowly dawned on me how very good it is, so now it's 9. Thanks for thinking.

Last one of it's kind
by Giorgio

Comment:
Very fine photograph. What's so very good about it is that you knew that the tree could not, should not, be made into a 'hero' in this photograph. It's nearly buried here, nearly overwhelmed, and that's the majesty of it ... that it has insisted on remaining a tree, and a proper one, even against this level of affront. The birds appreciate it, and so did you. Me too. 10

Madison Avenue Tree
by PennyStreet

Comment:
The most interesting in the challenge just because of the inspired juxtaposition. 10.

Stuck
by jaysonmc

Comment:
This will not score well I suppose, but I think it's really very clever and thoughtful too. The tree is indeed stuck among all these non-trees, and yet still competes for life even against the inanimate pretenders. It's probably losing, alas. 9.

Mapletree Illumination
by Geee

Comment:
One of the best uses I've seen of this kind of vignette effect. It seems to understand the tree, and because of it, so do I. 8.

Kinnikinic prairie
by undieyatch

Comment:
There's something very moving about this. Maybe it's the fact that the tree appears hacked off on one side, which seems to emphasise the merciless nature of this place. The fact that it's not rendered in improbably sharp detail helps of course. 7.

Weathering Heights
by Caravela

Comment:
It's such an interesting shot that I will forgive you the groan-inducing pun of a title. The juxtaposition of the deeply fissured rocks with the softer bucolic mid-ground is very good, and of course the tree is reduced to an uncertain limpet here. 7.