Casino
by Jaxon

Comment:
Choosing to frame this scene this way seems odd: given the intriguing tonality of the sky, even despite it's seeming so blocky and compressed, I would have imagined placing that line of buildings lower in frame and allowing the effect of the sky not to be so constricted would have added an enormous amount to this - especially as you have so much dead space in frame at the bottom. 5

The Barber
by avolcoff

Comment:
You have a difficulty with light here i think; the eye naturally being drawn to the brightest areas of frame (although there are other considerations, naturally, but with such deep depth of field they don't come into this very strongly), the primary point of attention in your shot is the bas of the chair. There's a tension introduced by another natural instinct which is to see the faces, and the pull between those two things. Sometimes that can be a successful technique, that division of attention, bu for me there's nothing fascinating about the base of the chair ... 5

On the Waterfront
by jenesis

Comment:
Strong image, good choice of title too. Immaculate use of depth of field, and a strong compositional balance across the frame. It's possibly a touch too purely graphic for my taste (and this really is now about personal taste): there isn't enough definition in those ducklings to add that extra level of wit to it. nevertheless, strong work. 7

Solitude
by Brad

Comment:
Ten ribbons in nine months, and just 60 challenges Brad. I think you'll need a handicap, soon. Congratulations on another one :-)

Natural Wildlife Habitat
by dipaulk

Comment:
Certainly fitting the challenge - but the other half of that, producing a quality photograph - well, this desn't do it for me. There is a strong sense of the patterning of those tree textures, but there's very little differentiation of tha background to give any strong sense of subject anywhere, and the chaos of shapes and lines makes it a very difficult composition to follow. There is, however, a strong sense of pulling the eye to the right of frame, which makes the hiding of the figure work photographically very well.

"Mommy, is that tree gonna get me?"
by OFreasier

Comment:
Lacking real punch - without knowing your processing it's difficult to tall you what I feel is wrong, but it looks like you could use some more contrast and a good bit of sharpening - that would really hhelp bring out the patterning of that chaos of branches I think. It's not a bad image for the challenge, but you could work on your composition also.

Where?
by neehai

Comment:
I do like the effect of an IR filter on trees. I think your processng here is a bit blunt - the leaves have become quite blotchy, quite blocky: I wonder if you may have pushed the contrast too far overall - so that you've lost some of the ddetail of graduation of tone, and gone too far towards white and black.

He's in there somewhere.
by kevrobertson

Comment:
After some moments of looking, this image seems tilted a touch - which adds I think an unneccesarily distracting dynamic to what is otherwise a very fine shot for the challenge. I particularly like the fact that the strongest compositional elements pull the eye towards the stairs, and your hidden figure is in the other direction.

where's the bird photographer?
by petrakka

Comment:
Don't see anyone at all :-) I'm not sure about the strong barrel distortion, I feel that it doesn't work for this scene - though I do very much like the light.

Waldo in the Woods
by fisheye

Comment:
Too well hidden for my eyes.