Raining again
by JohannesFrank

Comment:
Love the feel here - a strong sense of that head-down just-get-through-it unremitting drizzle. You might have had a slightly stronger composition - this seems to fall a little between a set of parallels and a more leading group of those cows; I also wonder if a little pulling down of the exposure wouldn't have deepened and enriched the green tones, and perhaps lost the sense of the sky drifting into over-exposure, although obviously the details of the cows themselves needed to be maintained. It's a fine shot, even with those reservations, and even with the slight feeling of missing the very finest detail.

Come out and play
by Nazgul

Comment:
Excellent portrait - with the slight reservation that you might have calmed down the highlights on the glove and the bear a touch - they have that very digital over-exposed feel. Great tones otherwise though. One has to hunt for the suggestion of rain (as opposed to cold) a bit more than bodes well for your score in a Rain challenge here, but it's a good shot.

The Only Rain in L.A. is Artificial
by hopelessoptimist

Comment:
Just too abstract for my taste I'm afraid - though I can imagine you were struggling, in LA, for rain :-)

Umbrella Blown
by JPR

Comment:
Interesting, dirty image - love the feel of it, very expressive. The areas you appear to have darkened seems a brutal effect - perhaps a touch heavy--handed? Not enough feathering? Nothing else in frame seems to go quite a black as those areas ... and the overlap with the umbrella makes it plainly editing. Outside of that reservation though, a much more intriguing image than most

Slick
by Army of nOne

Comment:
Has a sense of the Andreas Gursky about it - not least in its quality of exposure. Strong compositionally - except perhaps the erraticness of the final horizon, which breaks the parallels quite strongly.

delivery boy (shot under basic editing rules)
by tomzinho

Comment:
Nice image - and the kind of title I would expect to put folks' backs up. I'm not sure, for myself, and given the rule-set, that the process of your editing is much of an issue in my assessment of this - at least, it wasn't until I read the title.

Splash
by johansec

Comment:
I think this lacks a sense of drama, which might have been usefully increased with some contrast work, especially around that spray of water, which simply shades into greyness.

"The Monsoon Season"
by tfarrell23

Comment:
Very strong indeed - reminds me of Simon Norfolk, who is a genius (so that's a high compliment indeed). I would love the foreground t have been pulled up a little, just to reveal some more detail in those buildings (and I don't mean throwing the dodge and burn at it indiscriminately). The tonality and light in the sky is wonderfully caught, and it remain purely photographic; very high standard.

A Kids Dream
by jenesis

Comment:
Good contrast, strong composition, colour, exposure. I like it, but couldn't go overboard about it. Solid work.

Cloud burst
by armelle

Comment:
There's an odd, almost water-colour-esque feel to this image (not out of place, I suppose). I can see arguments both for and against the inclusion of the lamp-post, but oh, for it to be straight. Colour tones are good, and the sense of greyness, of dullness is well achieved. Without the post, it might have an almost turner-like quality of light about it.