An Airplane Seat View
by Wildpurple

Comment:
Interesting as a view from a plane, but as a guide book shot? I just can't picture it in such a book, of any kind. Don't find the centred composition useful either - the point of those areas of dead space is ...?

Ons Island
by lsmart

Comment:
On the right lines, certainly. I find the foreround light a bit flat and uninviting - I think you could have used more contrast in that area quite happily. The composition also lacks something - there's almost a line of elements directly up the centre of the frame, and maybe if you could have framed this toa llow the gaze to sweep through the shot, rather than to be led directly up it, it would be more satisfying. Perhaps also the horizon is a bit too far up in the shot? The light in the sky and the clouds there seems inviting, but one's eye is so close to the edge by the time one sees it ... But good work, all the same.

take a hike
by colda

Comment:
What have you done to the sky? Burnt out and so put in a colour? That's how it looks - terribly flat. Good composition though, and pretty good exposure. I'd have tried a graduated fill on that sky, to give some sense of the real, but it's nevertheless a very tricky thing to achieve, so that failure perhaps souldn't cost too dearly.

Church of Hallgrimur, Reykjavik, Iceland
by siggi

Comment:
Much more to the point than the black-and-white one ... I'm wondering how many more shos of it there are going to be. For the challenge, pretty good I'd say although the perspective distortion might have been lessened a touch. Great light, perhaps only a touch too subtle for a travel guide. Pretty close though.

Land Between the Lakes
by parrothead

Comment:
Don't know about those dark halos - but intrigued to know what they're an artefact of. Wonderful scene, and those odd things are the more of a shame for it. It'd be a pretty off-the-wall guide to publish this, no? A good clean version would be a pretty sure near winner, I'd think. Like this ...

Church of Mary Magdalene, Minsk, Belarus, Built in 1847
by skief

Comment:
Slight wide-angle effect is a touch disorienting for me - has that falling over backwards feeling, a bit off-putting in this challenge. Technically accomplished otherwise, compositionally just a touch heavy in the centre without enough weight of interest to off-set that.

Quebec City
by darix

Comment:
Very very nearly ... but that foreground-most section of wall is just too intrusive, without really adding much in drama or visual interest for me. Shot from that touch closer, using the steel rrail as your leading line, I could see this scoring fabulously well. Great exposure, details, light, subject.

the village by night
by Andelain

Comment:
All that negative space ... photogrphaically intersting to me, certainly, but ... I think this challenge demands a shot to be more orthodixly interesting. Cries out for something to be happening there, and whilst I rather like the tonality, I don't think I would publish it if I were putting a guide together.

Iceland biggest church, Hallgrimskirkja
by JohannesFrank

Comment:
Forbidding. Don't like the halo-ing effect around the top of the thing - if it's from burning or selection I'd have found a gentler feathering of it less 'processed'. Good textures lower down, composition fine. Too heavyweight for this challenge? We'll see what folks think - I suspect they're looking for stuff more like advertising than documentary.

San Francisco Night Life
by md8speed

Comment:
Could certainly see this in a guide - though I'd perhaps want something a touch more distinctive than a simple skyline - so many sea cities have something similar. Technically, faultless, but not quite specific enough, if you follow me.