Lights
by thumper

Comment:
3. Intriguing image, though I'm not a fan of your post-processing - those blown out whites appearing inpatches is kind of unflattering, and doesn't add to what is already a quite bizarre feel. In simple terms of the challenge details, it's impossible to score you more.

exotic
by xripoll

Comment:
2. So small, so compressed, very difficult to see that there might be more than one light source. The one point above minimum you score is for having some sense of composition in the image.

All it needs is a bit of light
by elyk

Comment:
Like the progression of colours here, but can't get on with it as an entry for this challenge. Good work to make the centred subject function with that background, and blalnce the shot - not easy to do. The colours are the only thing I find interesting here, apart from a possible suggestion of the poisonous nature of Coca-Cola, but that seems incidental. 3

Glow of Innocence
by starmackin

Comment:
Small, in both size and usage of available bandwidth, which will hurt your score I'm sure. I find this composition clumsy too - there's only the single movement through the frame for the eye, and that takes it pretty quickly out of frame. The balance of the weight of the image is heavily to the left too, making it feel un-thought-out. 4

Geneva Town House
by jjbeguin

Comment:
I don't believe you ever get 'lucky', actually, JJ.

Ed

Life without Green
by Falc

Comment:
Technically, near-perfect. The array of those small leaves gives good blance to the idea of a centred composition here, and allows this shot to work. The de-saturation of the leaves is a personal choice of course - but likewise, it's a personal bugbear for me (one of the things such techniques opens you up to in a peer-voted competition), and I cannot see a justification for it here, can't see what it adds, beyond a suggestion of shudder-value, of distaste. Makes it look like the thing is emerging from seware, rather than water. Great capture, for me let down by your processing. 6

Wild Life Centre
by mrblobby

Comment:
Couldn't work out what the apparent motion blur was at first, but I guess it's just the out of focus water, yeah? The tilt absolutely makes this: balances the composition nicely, allowing those shapes to give movemnt through the frame rather than blocking them all to one side and one edge. Good work there - wonder how many comments will criticise it? Either your processing or your exposure causes me some problems though - the eye is so dark it feels like a 'wrong' photo - and the eyes are essential in almost all wildlife photos. Perhaps if you'd under-exposed and then brought the highlights back in post-processing? Might give you more range of detail, without losing that level of contrast completely. 6

Bee
by Jacko

Comment:
Not at all sure about this. Obviously highly accomplished, there is little to criticise technically, if at all. Some of your choices confuse me though - the extreme shallow dof - and its affect on the attenae, coming in and out of focus ... also I keep wanting to see more detail in the hairs of it's head, but they're out of focus, and I'm not finding enough interest in the patterning of the eyes, which is where he focus is. It's confusing to my eye, but not challenging. 5

Moyer at Leisure
by daisy77

Comment:
I think you fall into a slight trap here of just finding a subject and centring it, rather than finding a subject that benefits from being centred. Whilst there is some interest in framing him against pure grass, and the very slight leading lines of the cut pattern help, there isn't enough to suggest a demand for a centred composition. Technically accomplished though - and perhaps there are things here the British eyes miss. 5

Tree
by redmoon

Comment:
I like the strange depth of field here - well, perhaps not strange, but kind of antique, if you follow me. Love the almost model-like sense of detail and tidyness: makes it look so small. Aided by that film-like border, this has a real subtletly that I fear will be lost on the 10 second voters. Not sure that I wouldn't personally have tried to avoid the blown-out sky, either with some kind of graduated filter or framing the subject against a solid background of other trees. But it's lovely work as it is. 8