No Giant Steps
by raish

Comment:
the top half doesn't seem to have much to do with the bottom half of the shot.

Twas the day after Christmas, & all thru the boys room....
by Darkend_Sword

Comment:
Was there a point to the use of the processing ? Does it enhance the message you are trying to get across ? Just seems to make it harder to work out that this is a shot of a messy room

Winter Morning at Red Pine Mountain
by jrtodd

Comment:
interesting effect, but it appears to be there for the sake of it, rather than contributing to the image in any real way. What was the purpose of the squares ?

The Red Planet
by Brad

Comment:
Looks like the cover of a 50's sci-fi comic and not much to do with a photograph

Golden Death
by Kelli

Comment:
Editing feels pretty unsubtle and over the top, for no obvious reason that I can see

The glacier
by saiphfire

Comment:
Looks a lot like Lake Louise in the 1930s. I don't feel the grain adds a whole lot to this, other than making it look like an old grainy image

No survivors...
by CEJ

Comment:
This one stopped me for a while. Has a beautiful mood, lovely colour palette, what looks like subtle processing but doesn't look much of anything like a photograph or photographic, any more.

It really evokes the feel of a marshland or dead/wasted trees near a lake, but raises it beyond that to not be any particular place but something more fundamental.

So I don't quite know how to vote, to be honest. Its a lovely, beautiful image. It reminds me of the area I grew up and is something I'd probably even hang on the wall if I'd taken it myself. But it doesn't meet the 'keep your pictures photographic' rule.

GPL W00T.jpg
by Konador

Comment:
yeah, like you beat my uncle ;)

The Strange Musical Life of the Honey Moon
by posthumous

Comment:
Was in my top 5 for this challenge. Glad I'm on track with the general mood of the site ;)

sweeping in the rain
by ursula

Comment:
Congrats on a great image. Well done.

On reading the 'Photographer's comments' above, I find I'm more interested in knowing something about what happened before you pressed the shutter.

What drew you to this subject, how was it when you found it, is it all entirely natural/found, how did you approach finding the final composition, what first caught your eye, how much did it take before you 'found' this final frame, that sort of stuff. If you have time, it would be really interesting I think (well, at least for me)