Cute little doer upper...
by bandit

Comment:
The soft-focus quality (that sense of the spreading of the highlights) is well executed, although not to my taste. I'm seriously unsure about your cropping - so tight to the building leaves it no room to 'breathe' compositionally, and the cutting in half of the truck is simply a shame. There are details in the side of that building that are excellently caught, but that composition remains a problem for me: your audience's eye, it should alwas be remembered, will drift out of frame as soon as you give them a chance - placing elements of your primary subject that close to the edge is an open invitation. Nevertheless, there's enough good stuff here to put you in the upper half of the scores from me.

Closed Military Base
by RickH

Comment:
There are certain graphic elements tto this that i really like - the contrast of the barbed wire and the fence, the lines of the wire and the lines of the windows, and the block areas of subject. it must be said that it doesn't speak immediately of abandonment (and in a challenge with so many entries, many voters might be looking for any reason to put an image out of contention). For me, it lacks a sense of detail, of anything beyond that purely grahic quality.

V
by PDavis

Comment:
Or Y, or X perhaps. I like the feel here, there's a sense of washed-out-ness to it all, without losing definition on the right-hand plane, which gives the whole thing a mystical kind of quality. I'm not wholly sure that the framing couldn't have been better - stronger - had you placed the vertical smoke and plane more strongly in frame. But it's an effective image, nevertheless.

L L L
by ralph

Comment:
I like this very much - great sense of simplicity, great use of light, great timing of exposure to blur the water. The composition is nicely balanced, nicely weighted, and the tonality works really well for me. To keep the level of detail whilst only using a fifth of the available file size is impressive - though there are obvious compression artefacts along the railings of the bridge.

F / stop
by 2Shay

Comment:
Very very straightforward composition lets this down a touch perhaps - all you have is the tree, and the light on the grass behind to carry interest. I would love to see it against more of a landscape, to bring other elements to the image - and that would also help you not have to position the thing so absolutely dead centre of the frame.

Eye "Q"
by Matthew

Comment:
We need a lens or sensor clean here? Shame the basic rules prevent cloning out of those spots. Great title - made me smile straight off. This must be a hellish long exposure - just looking at that light trail across the water. The spots at the top of the travel of the eye are presumably the flashes of automatic cameras? I'm no fan of this very straightforward composition, though - I think I would personally have balanced it in frame more with the shell building to its right - that conjunction here leaves the entire image feeling kind of weighted to the right.

Helping Hand
by aznym

Comment:
Delighted to see this blue for you Aznym

First Blades
by autool

Comment:
Effective - I can feel myself flinching at the impact ;-)

(And shouldn't she have pads on her elbows too?) The exposure and colour presentation of this let it down for me - it's a neat enough exposure, but it lacks contrast and sense of placement of your subject, compositionally. It could do with more contrast, and perhaps without colour altogether, to put it more into the photographic world as opposed to the family-snapshot world. Lartigue shot many such scenes from his own youth, but with that sense of location, and grace of development that you don't have here, and which for me make his photographs enduringly viewable.

The Domino Effect
by audinut

Comment:
There's some technical achievement in this shot, no doubt; but it's so blatantly set-up and fundamentally meaningless to me that I can't bring myself to like it particularly - nor to dislike it particularly.

Dinner For Two
by sofapez

Comment:
This is ... well, it really isn't very good at all, I'm afriad. The colours are washed out, considerably over-exposed. The organisation of the elements of the photograph is non-existent, there's such a visual confusion of so many subjects. You lighting, being from almost exactly the same direction as your point of view, hasn't even added any sense of depth and texture to those elements, making the image flat and uninteresting to the eye. The only saving grace is that the detail is good.