Moonrise Over Stonehenge
by EddyG

Comment:
Very Spinal Tap, no?

Spoon & Cherry - A Minneapolis Landmark
by Gatorguy

Comment:
This subject has been submitted before, yes? Whether by you or another resident I don't know. I like this version, this approach, better, definitely. The sculpture imposes itself in frame more effectively, making a stronger and happier parallel with the buildings. The whole thing feels a little blue - like it might just be the defaul sunlight white balance. Great sesne of plasticity on the spoon.

"Jewel of the Desert....100 Miles from Nowhere"
by tfarrell23

Comment:
Strong and effective use of negative space. Good technically too - strong composition without feeling forced.

Our first town hall
by spease

Comment:
A strong documentary shot. I like the feel added by the over-exposure of the light on the side of the building - speaks of a bright winter's morning very effectively. I don't find anything magical in it however - that spark of the wow factor. I think that is as much because it's shot from head-high (as are so very many shots), and with a quite 'ordinary' presentation. Think of this, perhaps: if you wanted to show someone exactly what Ramsey Town Hall looked like, you would happily use this shot. If you wanted to show someone what Ramsey Town Hall meant to you - would this be how you choose to present it?

another brick in the wall...
by frumoaznicul

Comment:
It stands out as a thumbnail - when it came up i remembered noticing it - but somehow it doesn't, not at least to the same extent, as full size. I think that may be a light thing - at that smaller size, the subject is plain and clear, and there's a strong sense of texture in the background - at full size, that texture is resolved into a heavy aptttern of blacks greys and whites but in the large elements of the stone, rather than the fine detail that reads as texture. There's a lot of good stuff here - i really like the faded and broken red on the hammer and sickle - and the tonality is strong, but I think perhaps a less general light would help the image - just allow some shadow to help the emblem stand out from it's background some. Strong work, with that reservation.

Pretty Place
by plumber711

Comment:
The darkness, the darkness ... I can see the point, i think. There's almost a suggestion of tthe underworld, of a darkness seeping into life. What bugs me though is that the foreground elements that are visible don't cohere with that impression - they too are dark, but there remains elements of detail there, and one's eye just tries to find that detail in the background areas. I wonder if you have only exposed for the statue, and this lost the background - and whether you might effectively have taken the exposure a stop or two further and been able to keep some of that background detail.

Cathedral
by samtrundle

Comment:
Strong image, certainly. The obvious comment is about the tower building - and I'm not sure your placing of it relative to the cathedral and the frame is going to go down well here. I like it though - there's a wackiness ot it, a non-obviousness, but I think it's pretty effective. The strength of the centred positioning of the cathedral, and the symmetry of this view that makes it such a strong subject for a central placement, amkes it almost possible for the eye completely to ignore the presence of the tower: and then it registers, and the dpc-brain goes 'what were you thinking?' - but it is that initial look, and then that sudden, shocking presence of tthe tower, that gives this a most wonderful impact. Genuinely surprising, genuinely effective, and genuinely communicative of the modern urban world. Great work, indeed.

Denny Chimes - University of Alabama
by Arcy

Comment:
I like the idea - certainly think the angles and incidences of the stonework make for an interesting idea. I'm not certain about your crop though - there doesn't seem basically to be enough of that stonework in shot, or of brickwork, or of sky, and the failure to include the entire name bugs me ... placing those letters on the very strong diagonal makes them the definite subject here, yet to my eye it is those angles of stone that hold the visual interest, but your shot constantly pulls the eye away from them.

Pride of London
by Imagineer

Comment:
Beautifully executed, well composed. I've tried this shot myself, and never found a really happy composition - I think this is possibly the best available, but it somehow never quite feels a strong as one would want it - I think it's because the balance of the bridge and the cathedral don't quite sit as comfortably in frame as one would like; to my eye, the brdige always feels relegated somehow. This is by far the best attempt I've seen at it though.

The Richard M. Nixon Library by Night
by Brad

Comment:
i'm not sure about this at all - even after five minutes of looking at it. I don't think that it has the sense of texture, of existence that would bring it out to be a great shot. I like the composition very much, like the idea, but in the end it doesn't quite have the sting that one would want. I like the sense of light here - but its impact has somehow been muted here, I think.