Gala Apple
by sharvey

Comment:
I'll be really intrigued to see your score for this - it is almost exactly the same as a shot of mine - which I think scored (looks it up), 5.781. Incidentally, that's almost exactly what my shot in this challenge is currently standing at. Good luck with it.

April
by scottwilson

Comment:
I'm guessing this is some kind of ludicrous theme-park sort of thing, or Vegas, or somewhere weirdly crass like that. I've never seen it before, however, and so it has a certain impact. So strange. doesn't speak of any time of year particularly, to me, but I could imagine it in a calendar. just not a claendar I;d particularly want to have hanging on my wall :-) Good work. 7

April
by hopper

Comment:
:-) Or any other month, come to that, huh? neat shot, neat idea of graphic qualities to it. I feel i've been here, but can't recall where it is?

November View
by Brad

Comment:
Wonderfully well done, and glad to see you've avoided the current disease of over-enhancing the light and shade in such scenes. Either great fortune or great patience eviddent, and great understanding of light, and I'm also pleased about your balance of shadow and light. Good graphic sense of composition also, coupled with a great depth of detail in the image, for all the slight digital noise in the sky. I'm not sure it's quite what i would choose out of a stock catalogue for a calendar shot - doesn't have the right cliched quality, really, but that's largely incidental. 7

November
by Jondor

Comment:
Clever - quite what it is that speaks of autumn here, rather than simply a black and white shot of a leaf at any time is difficult to say. I suppose the border woudl be acceptable for a calendar, though it still behoves me to say how little I like it. I've enjoyed the shot though, for all those criticisms.

October
by C_Steve_G

Comment:
Strange light here. I like the idea, and think it would work just fine, but your concentration of light feels a bit bizarre, and the angle of it, or perhaps simply the processing or size of image, has allowed no real sense of depth or texture to come through. A shame, as it would be an ideally themed shot for a calendar.

February's Sweethearts
by debitipton

Comment:
Nice portrait, and especially given the trickiness of the white shirt and black top abd keeping some texture on both. Can't really see it as a claendar shot, myself, but good work.

November
by banmorn

Comment:
I do like that suggested continuity of the clouds through the building. As a calendar shot? Apart from having little to place it in any particular time of year, it feels just a touch too unorthodox to my eye. Don't misunderstand - I like the idea, and the execution but for a couple of reservations about graduation of light - I'm just not sure about it as a calendar shot.

November - Bonfire Night (UK)
by BobsterLobster

Comment:
Excellent work here - wonderful control of exposure. I wonder if, perhaps, it isn't slightly too suggestive of a house fire for the normally required blandness of calendar photography - something along the lines of a family silhouetted by it would add that inoffensiveness that seems normal. But nevertheless, and wonderfully executed photograph. Love that structure of burning pallets. 8

November
by Sammie

Comment:
I don't find anything here that particularly says 'November' to me - for either Hemisphere - mainly, i think, the complete absence of any seasonal plants hurts you. It could, quite honestly, be almost any time of year in my eyes.

Neither does it have the punchm that quality of light, of drama in the landscape that I'd want in a calendar shot.

I do quite like the compositional idea - but i think it cries out for stronger colours, perhaps a half stop or so less exposure, which has the effect of intensifying colour: here there is that slightly pale feeling so typical of a camera's automatic exposure setting. 5