Broken Image, Steady Pride
by xtabintun

Comment:
Like this - love the stone texture you've achieved here. Interesting and effective composition too. I wonder if many people will see this as 'broken' though.

Happy glass
by Prime_Time

Comment:
The black background is well achieved. The set-up, framing, and lighting though need work. There is a kind of bronze quality to the finished shot that I quite like, but overall it's indistinct. The light: well, galss is difficult to light, and is usually more a matter of lighting a background and using the distortion of the shape of the glass to bring its presence to screen. Framing: what looks like an attempt to emply the rule of thirds is difficult when there is nothing here other than the subject - as is, it just looks off centre. The effectively employ the rule of thirds, one needs some context, some surrounding to parallel the main subject, I think. I imagine this side-lit from the left, so that the shadows fall into the negative space area to image right, and a background other than black, and I think you'd have a more dpc-friendly shot.

Pride of London
by Imagineer

Comment:
I think I remember your saying you weren't going to win a blue any time soon? ... many congratulations, long overdue my friend.

Edit ... checking your profile, it looks like this was your 100th challenge entry. Some way to celebrate the century Jon.

Message edited by author 2004-12-15 16:52:29.

Linlithgow Palace
by geewhy

Comment:
You score would have been slightly higher had I got as far as this in the voting Gordon. To my mind, a lnadmark without it's context is meaningless, more or less. This, however, is marvellous.

The Severn Bridge
by Wobble

Comment:
OK shot, with some suggestion of the monumental size of the bridge. My guess is that your ISO has been pushed for this - it's quite noisy in many areas. Like the loom of the supports against the darkening sky, and the sense of the night's blare of oncoming headlights, but I find it lacks any great impact: perhaps in that it seems more about the road than the bridge, and it's cluttered and not unusual in that area.

"The Big Chicken" - Atlanta's #1 Landmark!
by wetland

Comment:
Technically fine - focus, exposure and the like. Subject and your approach to it: well, i think it could have been handled with more impact - you seem, to me, simply to have included all of the building, and as little else as possible without cutting off the cars; and that tells me nothing about this place other than exactly what it looks like - and I want to know where it's set, what landscape it's part of, how it relates to it's environment.

U.S. Naval Observatory - Flagstaff, AZ
by jperez1690

Comment:
Some odd perspective distortion has crept in here, presumably from your angle of shooting (else the US naval observatory has been built on the slant, which seems unlikely). Like the ceanliness of the long exposure - not easy to achieve and must have taken care. I think I'd have wanted to calm the brightness of the snow in post-processing - I think that loses some of the impact of the 'night' element of this shot: there isn't enough dark in this to speak of that.

Wook-Koo Native Custodian
by Heavy

Comment:
It's a wonderful piece - the weathered cracks in the wood only add to the expressiveness of the statue. Whilst I'm absolutely with your decision no to centre the subject, I do find your choice of how to go about that a bit odd: that array of greenery seems indistinct, and disorganised.

Small Town Pride
by Damian

Comment:
Impeccable, for me. A great eye, and i wish more people had put the thought into the composition of their images that you display here. Top so far.

Light --- Northern & House
by kremkex

Comment:
There's something really peculiar about this shot - there seem to be striations running vertically through the image, which I can't understand. There's also a sense of blockiness to it, throughout tthe lighthouse textures. Great image though - and controlling the burn-out from the light must have been a hell of a task, and there's only minor distortion around it. Not convinced by your composition quite - the light seems placed neither centrally nor privileged, and I think that adds an unease to what ought to be a simple and elegant shot.