I Want to Call Everything Marlene
by posthumous

Comment:
I really do love this. The photograph's arguably superficially mediocre, but the concept, the inspired visual metaphor, is so soaring that it's got snow on it. The colours and tones are great, that borderless purple/blue/green pas de trois that I hope is as beautiful to people with normal colour vision as it is to those poor fools with the kind of colour vision limitations that I personally enjoy.

Calling Everything Marlene is a familiar affliction, or some variation of it is. And this is as good a graphic depiction of the dizzy malaise as I can possibly imagine. In fact I didn't manage it at all until you had already done so, which is a big tick for you right there: I have never seen this before, not anywhere. My top pick. 10. Thank you.

Prima Luce
by Pascal

Comment:
I didn't think much of this until I had let it soak in a bit. The deeper it soaked, the better I liked it. What I like most about it is that it is just real enough to be natural, and just improbable enough to be surrealistic. That's not all I like about it though; I also like the colours, the dreamlike tonal quality, and the perfectly conceived composition.

I nearly dismissed it and it ended up sitting securely in my top four. I daren't look at it any longer lest it becomes number one, and I just can't give my top pick to a landscape with flowers, can I? So as I leap from the train, it's an 8, and thank you.

Fire
by Ammie

Comment:
This is a beautiful picture, very painterly in the style of some painter whose name I can't recall just now. It might be Fred McCubbin, but maybe I mean some other bloke entirely. It's a nice landscape in the approved landscape style, but the fire elevates it into a wonderful drama. The two tiny figures are pinned against the frame (one is almost toppling out of it), and the tree is seen just one critical instant before it is consumed. Suspense, drama, danger ... and all hiding in plain sight in an ordinary landscape. It's wonderful. 9. Thank you.

Others
by MargaretNet

Comment:
This is one of the best 'compositions-with-umbrella' that I can remember seeing. Love how the foreground lady so dominates the one side with her strong tones and features, while the less emphatically-drawn supporting cast just manages to balance her on the other. This is a beautifully judged photograph, admirable for its restraint as much as for any other quality (and it has many). 8. Thank you.

Old Favorite
by RKT

Comment:
I don't like pictures of flowers. This is simply beautiful, and the beauty is deeply absorbing, which just shows how little I know. The tintype edge effect is great here, and I don't care how you got it; it's perfect in this work. And the tones are absolutely gorgeous. That's my favourite part, the breathtakingly lovely deep magenta that's toned in with the blacks. 7. Thank you.

Sucrows
by jomari

Comment:
A preposterous processing treatment but for me it works very well. Obviously you have done it by scattering sugar onto the print and then caramelising it lightly with a blowtorch, and then re-photographing that. Immensely clever. 7. Thank you.

Misty Morning Glow at Mount Bromo
by Chris_Ang

Comment:
I never imagined I'd like a landscape photograph this much. It's beautiful, and hardly boring at all! 7. Thank you.

Inside out
by Paul

Comment:
It's a very interesting photograph. I'm not certain of your intention with the title, but the title is perfect for my 'first look' reading, which was that the building was on fire. Second reading, a heartbeat later, was that the building was merely extravagantly lit from the inside. Third reading, one deep and steadying breath later, was more prosaic but accurate at last.

I enjoyed the journey from the fanciful, via misunderstanding to comprehension. I like the look of the picture, the feel of the picture, the tonal gradient from bottom to top, the crunchy colours. I enjoy including a 'u' in the word colours. Lots of delights here. 7. Thank you.

worm
by herfotoman

Comment:
This one soars above the rest conceptually and artistically. Plus it's very beautiful. If you are cutout then you were mistaken in your recent claim to have tapped out your seam of creativity. If you're not he, then you're a welcome marvel and I just haven't been paying attention. 10. Thank you.

Remembering Dusty Springfield
by GeneralE

Comment:
Even though I am not much inclined to want to remember Dusty Springfield with any clarity, this is a brilliant way to express your feelings about her legacy, and to drive a sparkling stake through the heart of the joyless literalism on show in this challenge. It really is quite a beautiful photograph as well. 8. Thank you.