Death and a Lady
by JPR

Comment:
Even without seeing the 'ladybug' - which would anyway be difficult, given the colouration - I certainly got a feeling ffrom this image which matched your title: almost entirely impressionistic, really, as I'd be very hard pushed to sya exactly why this worked for me. Too many of the properly sophisticated photographers here have ceased submitting very often, and I'm very glad that you continue to do so, however often your stuff is misunderstood.

Dumpsters & Litter
by kevrobertson

Comment:
I'm not sure whether this is terribly sophisticated or just very simplistic. Isn't 'dumpsters' a rather american term for a UK scene? (joke). I think this could do with more contrast work - darken those shadows some: after all, you already have a dirty non-pretty scene, why not go the whole bit and give it some real sense of grime?

Dawn Light (St Michael's Mount)
by Falc

Comment:
Is this not where the causeway runs out to the mount? The cver of a recent National Trust magazine has a better, though similar shot, which includes the first steps along the causeway. There'sa certain magic imparted by the wave-mist around the rock, and the vignetting (whether edited of lens-produced). Perhaps a touch simply 'pretty' for my taste - but then that's no easy thing to achieve by any means. Good work.

Darkness and Light
by nordic

Comment:
A fine exposure; a real sense of detail, allied to a strong sense of composition. Effective light too.

Diagonals and Lines
by banmorn

Comment:
Highly proficient: great shaprness, exposure and processing; strong tonality also. The bottom left exception to the rhythm of the rest of the glass adds an element of concealed surprise, which lifts the whole image.

Distance & Length
by SJCarter

Comment:
Great sense of flow through the frame here, and a good solid exposure. Your sharpening seems overdone on my screen - the leaves have turned into single pixels almost, but i think the voters generally like that so I can't blame you. It has interest photographically, almost verging on a sense of the model from your depth of field. Nice work.

Bauhaus
by whiteroom

Comment:
Ah hell ... this is so far beyond everything else in this challenge - I suppose I should add 'in my opinion' - that I almost just stopped voting. I find it unsurprising, though still disappointing, that all those shallow images were rated so much higher. Well; I think this is one of the great images on dpc.

Umbrella Blown
by JPR

Comment:
Interseting set of reactions to this shot J: thought it deserved a higher placing than this, although that burn ...

Pink Bloom in Summer Storm
by bledford

Comment:
Interesting, this; the bokeh on the raindrops is tremendous, and the blackness of background well done. The composition perhaps demands more detail, more stillness in the flower - and perhaps a calming of the intensity of the colour there - perhaps because I'm not sure. I think this will do well.

Water Street ( Impressionism)
by Prime_Time

Comment:
There seem almost to be only four or five categories of shot in this challenge. I would have this as the best of the vehicles spraying water category - love the almost tunnel-like shape of the spray here, and the colour tones.