Me, Myself, and I
by jimmyn4

Comment:
Quite a good idea I think, though your execution, in a challenge that allows the full scope of editing, is poor. You need to bring the white level way up from here, at least. Something disturbs in the composition area too - perhaps that your cropping asks too much of the eye in a very regular shape - and the privileged areas appear to be between the faces, rather than including them.

Jump For Joy
by bjallen

Comment:
Marvellously crazy - but a shame you couldn't quite have stopped the left-hand dog. You score for idea, but for location (and really I probably mean light), and execution you also lose some. There is some good compositional balance - but in the end the brightness of the background undoes your work.

Eggs for Breakfast
by agwright

Comment:
Technically good work - though those reflections are just a touch strong and single-light source looking - a soft box would have spread them out more and given an overall 'cleaner' appearance. I'm not a big fan of selective de-saturation as a trick - and I don't see a great purpose for it here: you don't quite amange the 'extraordinary' part of the challenge here for me - not beyond that de-saturation anyway.

Splash Down
by scrum8

Comment:
Very indistinct I'm afraid - and the colours are very muddy for this kind of 'designer' shot. To get that stop motion and brightness into these shots you almost always need good flash work, and this appears to have been pushed towards too long an exposure really, not quite fast enough to stop the motion.

What's for dinner?
by arnit

Comment:
Good depth of field - and strong graphic elements to this one; I do just feel that the halfway-to-silhouette of the fly seems a touch undecided - i'd either have lightened it or darkened it, myself. Excellent detail on the wings and the cutting of the tines.

River of Mist
by dsidwell

Comment:
Congrats David.

The First Element - Earth
by jonpink

Comment:
Congrats Jon - pipped only by a couple of very very good shots. great work - and love the threat in this image.

Sea of tranquillity
by geewhy

Comment:
Profoundly good work Gordon: 12 challenges in and then the 15th hoiighest rated shot on the site - bordering on the unfair :-) Very pleased for you - was going to say keep it up, but perhaps I'd rather the rest of us were left with a chance. Intriguing that all your 'averages' are whole numbers, too.

rose in b&w
by shutterfly

Comment:
Wonderful - looks almost like wood. Intense contrast, satisfying composition, real sense of weight and shape, and texture - albeit not an accurate texture, but what has that to do with anything?

Chanel Endings
by Catherine

Comment:
Very good on the powder, and the subtlety of the light is a joy. The low-contrast mood is perfect for this kind of reflective mood.