Stairlight Stairbright
by JPR

Comment:
I suspect strong burning in of corners, except that there's just enough reality to shade in those areas for me to doubt that. Whatver - it absolutely makes the shot.

Aperture
by Zoomdak

Comment:
I'll be surprised if this doesn't win, certainly of what i've seen so far. Very good work, although personally I struggle to see much more than sheer technical excellence in it. It doesn't move me.

Departure
by jjbeguin

Comment:
I now feel I'd know my way around Narbonne station if I were ever to go there. As strong and distinctive as ever.

lumière de la révolution
by nsbca7

Comment:
One of the troubles wih dpc is that there have been so many set-up shots that one can only take this for one. I'd love it to be a genuine war photographer's shot, but can't believe it at all. Wonderfully executed, as it were.

Backlit
by helgihelgi

Comment:
To be picky, I would say silhouetted, rather than back-lit; there's a difference. It's a wonderful capture though, enhanced by the suspicion that the coffee guy has turned to look at you as you shot. Slightly mad, and outside of the silhouetting, the rest of the frame is given its grace entirely by light. Top stuff.

light railway
by sidpixel

Comment:
Nice composition, great sense of light in two ways. Seems just to have lost some detail in the brighter areas - either processing or just a small sensor camera, I would think - doesn't quite have that 'ping!' of sharpness that is liked here. It does, however, have mood: in spades.

There's Beauty In The Breakdown
by sher

Comment:
Excellent metallic tones here, very strong composition. Reminds me somewhat of the work of Catherine Jamieson, but she hasn't submitted in nearly a year, so i'd be surprised. Strong photograph.

Beaver Lake
by ellamay

Comment:
Enormously subtle, this - and a strong sense of the real. The gentleness of the tonality, and yet the evident care in exposure and processing, makes me wonder if it isn't one from Mr Ward. Excellent compositional balance, and very non-dpc: most I suspect, will struggle tofind a subject, think it lacks sharpness, think the tonal range is too narrow. There's a sense of the Monet Lily-pond in some of the colours in the water.

Flight of the Vernal Limb
by bledford

Comment:
Splendidly daft, both image and title. Just wonderfully bizarre - frmo the unbelievable frame, the butterfly ... but the title just tops it all. Made me laugh.

Harsh
by PeterC

Comment:
The upsetting of one's expectations of zones in photography is strongly done here. Muted sense of progression of light, and of texture in the roof (?) lend just enough contrast to the absolute lines. The almost pointless seeming light adds that moment that is all that is needed to tip it into the real. Lovely work.