scarecil
by ypurbo

Comment:
Slightly too dark for me though suspect it was intentional. Interesting composition, nice light and shadows.
Kavey

OCD (Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder)
by bens0nn

Comment:
Lovely and like the DOF. Would like pencil on a true horizontal or further off it. Great background - not too light or too dark, has some shading to it, yet totally not interfering with rest.
6, Kavey

Pencil
by 4david

Comment:
Clever, different, simple, clean.
5, Kavey

School's Out!
by GlasMenagerie

Comment:
Although I kind of wonder what the pencil is doing there, I do like the shape of the boy's body and spade, and the use of DOF. The way the background frames the foreground is something I haven't seen used this well before and for that I am giving this slightly higher.
6, Kavey

Blacksheep
by whobee

Comment:
I just LOVE this. There is such a strange milky quality to the pencils in blue, and the photo is just incredible. Spot editting (I know not allowed on DPC) would allow you to remove the tiny spot near the red pencil lead (you have probably done that already on a different version, I'd bet!).
I would really like to see a HOW DID THEY DO THAT? tutorial on this photograph.
Joint favourite this week.
10, Kavey

refraction
by brent matsuo

Comment:
Interesting idea and nice colour and light. Would prefer the top of the glass not to be missing and for the glass itself to sit more vertically.
5, Kavey

Small Timber
by hokie

Comment:
I just LOVE this, the light is just fantastic. I'm a real city girl nowadays but this makes me think fondly of childhood days in the woods near where I grew up. (Hey, enter it again next week!). I like the angles and is that an ant crawling up the pencil? The only (very minor) thing I don't like is the leaf stalk towards teh bottom left which is rising up at an angle.
This is a beautiful photo.
8, Kavey

Pressure Point
by rll07

Comment:
Like the weird angles and the lighting, and the simplicity of contents.
6, Kavey

Puuurdy Pencils
by evmariedogs

Comment:
What an excellent pencil collection. Interesting layout, but the pink carpet is definitely overshadowing the wonderful colours of the pencils (for me anyway). Nice even lighting across whole lot.
Kavey

Petals
by kathleenm

Comment:
Lovely colours and I adore the combination of yellow and black. Because this is such a geometric composition I'd like it if the pencils were more accurately arranged (feel free to call me a picky old cow). I do also find something a little too static in such a centralised composition, yet there is something in this which attracts me. Sorry, this has to be one of my more rambling and useless commments.
5, Kavey