Life_Insulin
by zool

Comment:
It looks like a 'clinical' image. The title is needed, though, to understand the purpose of the medication 'portrayed'. Motiv, subdued colours, the cool plain background, and composition indicate a life depending on medicine, a life we don't like. But still, this is life too. And those in need of 'Humalog' have no choice, it is their life-support.
Composition: Subjcet off-centre, simple, clear lines, one vertical on the LH side, one diagonal from RH side to lower LH corner. Good DOF with end of the syringe, i.e. instrument/action, blurred. Very thoughtfully created composition.

Origins of Life
by shamer

Comment:
Hmmm, I am trying to guess: a microscopic image of a human egg? But then a 3/4 halo around it, the whole thing in blue against black, like the planet earth in the universe. Am not quite sure what I am looking at here. Still, I like the composition and colour combination.

Dirty Life
by inutza

Comment:
Good motif and colours: life bare of urban luxuries, but full of hard rural labour. The expression on her face is well caught. However, her face is under-exposed with too much darkness above her eyes (and below the blue sholder line of her sweater). A good setting and POV - foggy morning somewhere in the countryside, a wooden fence along a dirt road leading to some hut - the whole composition tells the story well.

Nature's Plan
by debreeze

Comment:
A good motif to illustrate the topic of this competition. However, IMO it is a bit too soft, the details, e.g. the bee's body and wings, are blurry. Nice overall diagonal lines created by 1) the stem and continued via the bee's body and b) "counter-acted" by the direction of the light apparently coming on from the top right(?).