Sudden understanding
by scotthadl

Comment:
This is fascinating. It is probably just a hole in a bit of metal (razor blade? metal ruler?), but that's irrelevant. What is so appealing about it is the fact that it suggests a resolution, but never quite delivers it. The most compelling thought is celestial. A planet against a meteor shower? A moon against a mega-planet? Or maybe it's something very small; at the sub-atomic level? Whatever, it is an attractive and absorbing image. I like the title, too; I feel I almost understand it, but then I don't. 8.

In Vitro
by xtine

Comment:
It's a very challenging photograph. Most of what I see is reflected, I think. The colours are well done, and unify the chaos just enough. I feel I should be able to resolve this image, but fortunately I can't. 8.

Flow
by climbin2thetop

Comment:
Unusual that one of the handful of other worthwhile images in this challenge has the same title, and involves the very same idea. I honestly can't separate the two "Flow" images, so I have to offer the same comment and the same score:

A beautiful image that uses a real-world object to create, or at least to suggest, something else. I suppose some might argue that it's not technically 'abstract' in art terms, in that it's representational. But it is representational of something other than what it actually is, so I figure that qualifies. And the thing that it represents is a state, rather than an object. In any case, more than 90% of the entries in this challenge are not even vaguely abstract, so you're way ahead! I applaud the vision, the elegance and the sympathetic title. 9.

Sorry I can't be more original, but at least I'm fair!

Flow
by dahkota

Comment:
A beautiful image that uses a real-world object to create, or at least to suggest, something else. I suppose some might argue that it's not technically 'abstract' in art terms, in that it's representational. But it is representational of something other than what it actually is, so I figure that qualifies. And the thing that it represents is a state, rather than an object. In any case, more than 90% of the entries in this challenge are not even vaguely abstract, so you're way ahead! I applaud the vision, the elegance and the sympathetic title. 9.

Fluid Ways
by messerschmitt

Comment:
Too good for this, Wiel.

Message edited by author 2006-04-03 03:33:20.

Pavement Artist
by e301

Comment:
Best In Show.

death becomes her
by whiteroom

Comment:
Hmmm... you already know what I think. Your documentary photographs of people are always revealing, yet never intrusive. You steal nothing away from your subjects. Puts you and Robert Go in a league of your own.

The pier
by puzzled

Comment:
That's beautiful. All that heavy and expensive new glass is worth the price!
There's a very musical quality about this photograph ... something to do with musical scales. It's mainly because of the progressively descending reflected posts, of course, but the effect is made even more musical by the top-left to bottom-right tonal gradient, and the total feel is very harmonious. Tone, scale and harmony; all very musical concepts that make your photograph so much more interesting than just a very pretty picture. The three softly curving horizontal reflections are also a nice counterpoint to the descending scale of the posts. It's a lovely, clever and absorbing photograph. Super Duper!

Headbutted
by aznym

Comment:

Originally posted by Digital Quixote: ... Remember rule of thirds ... bring the skull down a bit in the frame ... just a little ... 1/3 from the right, 1/3 from the top.

Oh, Good Grief!

photo exhibit
by ronrag

Comment:

Originally posted by DrAchoo: d'oh! why does he have to be OOF? could have been a good one.

Why does he have to be IN focus?