A World Discovered
by Imagineer

Comment:
The light, tonality, detail are marvellous. I've yet to find shots of kids looking happy particularly appealing, but that's beside the point. I think the overall composition is a touch weak - your chosen framing/cropping, for me, unblances what could have been a tremendous shot: it doesn't quite have the flow one would really want.

Grenoble
by cheekymunky

Comment:
Great compositional eye. Good detail, nicely balanced exposure, even with that squre being so burnt-out. Available presentatin size doesn't help you, of course, but one can sense tthe detail.

Harvest Season
by dustin03

Comment:
I'm rapidly going off this processed feel - but I'll make an exception for this shot. It serves the image perfectly, it's done with grace, it uses the centred composition marvellously, the slight unevenness in the regression of the fence adds just that touch of fantasy to it, and maintains the interest. Gorgeous stuff.

Summer Storm
by Stagolee

Comment:
it's not bad at all - though I'm not sure you've made the correct decision about your cropping: whilst that bright band at the top of the image should serve to emphasise the darkness of the clouds, I think it is unueccesary - as the contrast with the lighthouse serves that purpose anyway, and that build-up of cloud, and the red under-lighting, would be the more powerful for istting in stronger parts of the frame compositionally. More than anything, i think the file size of the submission lets you down - you've used around a fifth of the avaiable file size, and that's severely restricted your level of detail in such a large image, and detail is important in such a small image size as we get here.

Autumn Sketch
by lyta

Comment:
A lot of things to like here - the light on the kettle, texture in the cloth. It feels slightly over-bright, whether exposure or processing I don't know, but I would have the levels of the clogs toned down somewhat - they seem almost out of place - and whilst there is detail there, it feels blown out. Also i think the composition is too crowded, especailly the upper right of frame: things there are indistinct, and the confusion of that for me unsettles the rest of the image.

By the Sea
by snackwells

Comment:
Now. There's an almost cut and paste feel to this, almost like an old-time sea-seide shot where someone posed in front of a backdrop. Purely light of course - and very well handled. The style is slihgtly eastern in feel, fitting to the subject. I like it - photographially, it has a certain stance.

Helping Hands (C-Section)
by cloudsme

Comment:
Wonderful documentary work. Impeccable - catches that sense of delicacy and brutality of the operating theatre. I would expect, however, that many folks wil find it too bloody for here; a great shame. It should be published.

Stepping Back
by muur88

Comment:
Special light here - though there's a sneaking suspicion that it's very careful editing and use of contrast. I like the composition, although the black triangle of the shop awning to image left adds an unwelcome structural note, i think, especially being so close to the horse's head. A really great travel shot.

Let Me Tell You About The Flowers And Bees !
by Mona

Comment:
Whilst there are marvellous qualities to this, it somehow seems to lack that real fragility of fine detail - perhaps a processing thing, which would be good as it would be rescuable, perhaps. For me, it jjust takes the edge off what would otherwise have been a marvellous study.

Red and Yellow in Gray
by Azrifel

Comment:
Interesting shot, I think. This is a parallel of that classic really poppy colour study - presumably, from your title, it would have bright punchy reds, yellows, greens, blues ... so, of course, to present it in B/W is intriguing. However (and there's always a however, isn't there?) ... I'm not sure whether it's the knowledge, the familiarity of that referred to image, or whether it's a genuine thing, but this seems to be lacking real texture, and is more of graphic image - but of course you've invited that comparison with the big colour shot ...

There is a strong sense of fragility on the petals though - that translucency. I'm not quite sure what to make of it at the moment.