Pincushion Protea
by Cantique

Comment:
The immediate reaction is that this could do without the stem to the right, and the lower part of its own stem, but then you'd be moving into stock photography world, and we'd all be crying out for different lighting. After some consideration of this, I think that to really emphasise the lines more contrast is needed - their translucency doesn't help with a sense of texture, a sense of really being able to touch the thing.

lines in the snow
by clictacamera

Comment:
An interesting approach - really interesting. A shame that the distortion of the screen causes that bending of the images, and that you couldn't quite be rid of the scanning lines of the screen. Those two elements take away from the magical impact of the shot somewhat. But I like the effect, very much.

Charcoal Line
by Corwyn

Comment:
I don't see that the noise generally and the sharpening artefacts (particularly around the point of the pencil) are of any great help to this image. The extreme shallowness of the depth of field suggests a large-sensor camera, and yet the final image's uqality suggests something much less sophisticated.

That darn pink!
by okiesisi

Comment:
Seems unneccesarily noisy for a simple composition, and is a bit chaotic in it's placement of elements.

Life Through A Lens
by Simonjw

Comment:
Oh, bu this is wonderfully composed, and a marvellous approach to the challenge. It's complex, graceful, and shows real mastery of the graphic elements of composition. The figures are placed perfectly for the balance of the shot .. but I really wonder about the motion blur ... such a minor complaint though. Excellent.

Chapel in the snow
by RUEDISCHMUTZ

Comment:
This is a bit too christmas-cardy for AA, I would say. His images, to my mind, are not usually so twee. The tonality is fine, as one would hope given the massive range that departing from black and white allows you.

Wadi Seer gorge towards the Dead Sea
by Xilebo

Comment:
Wonderful image, but the treatment is just not Adams-like. What really seems out of place is the lack of contrast in the land areas - the range there is quite restricted, and i would have selected it and pushed the contrast quite a bit. Also the over-exposure of the sky areas is just too much to my eye (some would be acceptable, to give that sense of brightness, but i just can't see this range as being typicla of AA.

Ghosts of the Midwest
by bbower1956

Comment:
I'm not sure. There are very very strong elements here - tonal range, very zone system - but other elements seem out of place. What looks like fill-flash, which could simply be reflection from ground, feels out of place to me for AA's work, and a certain confusion from the vegetation likewise seems to be something he'd have avoided. Composition is strong, though perhaps not really an AA type of thing, and the perspective distortion is perhaps out of place too. All of which sounds highly critical, so i should add that I do really like this image, and think it works well for the challenge ... I'm just a hyper-critical kind of commenter :-)

The Peak
by pmichaud

Comment:
Almost believeable, certainly. A couple of drawbacks for me: lack of foreground or even middle-distance interest, something to give a retreating dynamic into the frame, and a lack of life in the sky - where i think this cries out for a careful selection and pushing of contrast: it's that regular grey of those clouds, i think, where one would hope for more variety of tone. Absolutely the expected subject, and well worked tonally - the mountain itself really has that AA feel.

Day into Night
by strangeghost

Comment:
Works for me as an AA type of subject, though i think he would have found more contrast within the tree in a print than there is here. I also find tthe composition a touch congested for AA - all elements seem crowded into the left-hand side of frame. I can see the effectiveness (photographically and challenge-wise) of the distance available image right, and that shooting from any further left would have ruined the light, but nevertheless that crowding is a bit of a problem to my eye. I like your care with overall range though, very effective.