Circle of Friends by Maeve Binchy
by xocutebabexo10

Comment:
Horriblly unflattering flash-lighting.

The Grapes of Wrath
by irenes

Comment:
Very strange that this idea's cropped up twice - though i think differently done this time.

"Eye of the Needle" by Ken Follet
by nator

Comment:
The very low contrast here doesn't help - it seems to be all midtones, no whites, no blacks. Composition is odd - why crop out the end of the needle? Such very simple subjects almost always rely on great technical work for their impact: try having a careful look at the impact of more directional lighting - this seems to be absolutely flat light - like in an office, or showroom. There's no shadows at all, no depth, texture.

St. Peter's at Dusk
by mbardeen

Comment:
Congratulations Matt - had to get a blue onto your profile sooner or later. Great work.

The Unlit Lamp (Radclyffe Hall)
by Catherine

Comment:
Thoughtfully presented, and intriguing use of DOF to blur wat one would expect to be the real strength of this shot. I like the way it moves from a believable world - the texture of the in focus glass/metal - to the purely abstract over on the left; and the colours are good. The detail of that hook pulls far too much attention I think - oh, it's the edge of the filament, isn't it? - not convinced it should only have been partially shown, not sure what that achieves.

On the river Styx (Peter Matthiessen)
by rhipster

Comment:
Jeesh, Charon has a spare boat? Beautiful shot - like the near graphic quality given by the very still water and that tongue of land. Can't quite imagine the borders of hell looking so peaceful, however :-)

Animal Farm
by DebN2003

Comment:
I'm wonddering why you've shot it from this very ordinary angle, and whether a lower POV would help (my feeling: yes, enormously). Somewhat clutterd composition too, though I do like the attack hippo.

Crossroads of Twilight (By Robert Jordan)
by guobin

Comment:
Would love to see this with an even longer exposure - you'd probably need major ND filters to get that slow though - but the curves of the moving traffic would emphasise even more the yellow box at the junction. Intersting shot.

By the Bay
by Johanna00

Comment:
have to presume this comesw from a very low res camera, else the pixelation is the result of some very bizarre processing. Not sure it would hold much interst even if perfectly reproduced here.

RED TILTLE.
by roozbeh

Comment:
I presume that reflection of a patch of light is the subject here. At first I thought it might echo one of the shapes in that slightly out of focus graphic, but it doesn't - only perhaps the lower curve of it, and I can't say I find anything particularly interesting in that. 1