Into the void (vacuum)
by redpanda

Comment:
I didn't get this at first, even with the title (I'm thick, though, so don't worry about that); but the loss of focus on all of the stones (?) did bother me, though, and overall the image just didn't reach me. Still bumped you up a bit after I realized what it was!

My Little Brother
by erl89end

Comment:
I really like the concept of this image -- the little brother making an entrance on his hands -- but the image didn't capture that for me. Part of it was the technical bits, like focus (which is a bit too soft for me) and lighting (I found the shadows on the left side of his body distracting). Part of it is that it looks more like a handstand than walking; having one of his hands in the air, or with some motion blur on it, would have gotten the concept of him making an "entrance" across to me better.

Eat or be Eaten
by cyan

Comment:
This was just too busy for me, and I wasn't sure where to focus. You might have tried it with a much, much more extreme narrowing of the depth of field (so that essentially everything behind the sign was blurred), but I'm still not sure, given the lighting, that it would work.

Breath's Entrance
by posthumous

Comment:
This didn't really do much for me; I liked the concept (a lot), but the severe use of the blur was too much. Something in focus would have given me a point to, well, focus on, and that would have helped it in my eyes.

Guitar Player
by aira

Comment:
Composition was the killer for me here. Two things that bothered me were the microphone crossing the guitar player's face, and the inclusion of so much of the floor at the bottom of the image. Cropping out the feet (were they supposed to show he was entering? if so, it didn't do that for me), and moving to the left a bit (so that stand was out of the way) would have improved the shot a lot for me.

First Steps to Cancer-Free
by lauraodom

Comment:
This image didn't really work for me; it's not the subject matter, but the focus is a bit off in the plants in the center, as well as (and this is more important to me) in the wording of the sign. I can tell there's emotion here from the subject matter, but the color minimized the emotion for me.

The winds of Scotland
by dd1989

Comment:
Things are moving here, but I don't see anything as a sharp subject - I couldn't really find a subject at all. I like the colors, but I probably would have cropped out the statue on the right (doesn't seem to fit with the rest of the image to my eyes).

Afternoon
by Lisaaaaa_

Comment:
I wasn't sure what to think of this shot; I don't get motion from it, nothing is blurred, and I would have liked to have seen more work with the composition (why include the side-view mirror on the left; it's distracting and unnecessary). The sky is quite bright, and the colors seem a bit subdued.

Flutter By
by ShannonLee

Comment:
I like the image, though I may have liked a bit more contrast (I may not have to, I'd have to see it to know for sure, and the sky might have prevented it, as it's pretty bright already), but I don't get a feeling of motion from it.

Office Warrior
by Mark

Comment:
I wasn't sure what to think of this image; clear subject, blurred background, but it just wasn't interesting subject matter to me, and the background is so blurred it almost isn't there as more than color - the image doesn't convey a feeling of motion to me.