Icelandic landscape in February
by bjoibal

Comment:
Lacks detail, either from resolution or focus I'm not sure. Without that, there isn't much of great interst visually in this shot, for me.

Waves... texture...
by photoleon

Comment:
Good use of light. Through glass? That reflection is rather trying, and for such a near-abstract shot I don't know how useful the foreground really is - the black lines and the out-of-focus first panel function as a frame of sorts, but it's alarge frame compared to the interest of subject.

Queensland Carpet Python
by BrennanOB

Comment:
Pity about the small image, as it looks to be rather a good shot. Certainly there is good texture, good lighting, and intersting progression to the little fellow's curves. The small size makes it difficult to see real detail on his head though. Very claer that snakes are not slimey though, really shows the smoothness.

AAHH..Nuts
by tfarrell23

Comment:
Not bad. Real feeling of warmth, like firelight. Detail and lighting are all as they should be on those nuts (boy I'm glad I didn't go with my nut idea). Placement in frame seems a bit odd - maybe your picture is way brighter than what I'm seeing (though I am gamma-corrected), but the bottom of frame seems to be dead space, and I don't see a compositional use for that.

Flax Pyramid
by sgspray

Comment:
More about the construction than the photography, to my eye. Beyond shininess I get little impression of texture here. Colour is good, but there's no real detail.

Shipping Crate Cezanne
by muur88

Comment:
Hate that red border - makes the red in the image look dull. Annoyed that the top of the crate isn't parallel with the fence or the frame. This approaches a fascinating composition though - something, beyond those two points, just disturbs it though. It may be as little as the location of the fence-pole, but there's an impression of the image being weighted very heavily to the left side, leaving a lack of interest to the right. Shows real signs of an appreciation of proper composition though, and would not need a whole heap changing to become good photography. 6

Nuts
by bormic

Comment:
Oh hurrah, decent lighting at last. I've only had to get through about 45 images to find one. The softlight (daylight?) really enhances the shape and texture of these. colour rendition seems superb, and the slightly cold blue of the bowl (?) serves well to add some warmth to the subject by contrast. Not completely convinced by the close-cropping, think I'd rather have preferred a more still-life exhibition, and perhaps that is only because of where you've allowed us to see the edges of the nuts - fill those areas also and it might feel less arbitrary. Might ... not sure. First truly competent shot I've seen though.

monkey of mine
by djcathy

Comment:
Good illustrative shot. Mixing warm and cold light is a nice trick, though perhaps the cold is a touch overdone here, but it still allows definition of shape without loss of light. Good sense of texture, but a somehow unsatisfying image: perhaps just too bland a subject, in the end. IMO, of course.

Sponge
by MissLafay

Comment:
Definitely, obviously texture, at least. But there's no shape, no coherence to the composition: little depth, not a great deal of variety, in short nothing to draw and hold the eye. Monochrome is effective, as it definitely makes the image about surfaces rather than colour. It's just too uninteresting an image for me, I fear.

Forth Bridge
by Tallbloke

Comment:
Gives some impression of the size and complexity of the bridge. Wouldn't say that it communicates texture, exactly - it would need to be less silhouetted for that, to show the steel rather than the outlines of it.