Sign of the Times
by Imagineer

Comment:
Got to be the worlds best road-sign, huh? Apart from one I saw in Italy that is. Subject is a bit loose for me - the past? To an extent, and it is at least a different approach from others.

Geopolitical Past
by amonteforte

Comment:
I can see the point with the DOF here, but I really don't like the effect it gives: somehow it pulls my eye away from the obvious subject toward the out of focus lower left area - have no idea why that it, but it's what happens. Can't see a good reason for not having the entirety of the flag image in focus either. Not bad work, for all that.

97 and Still Hanging
by OneSweetSin

Comment:
I know everyone else will ahve made a comment about your Math, so I won't.

Where only one was burried
by russi

Comment:
love the bleakness of this shot - though i think I might have shot to place the grave cross against the sky: would make a stronger parallel with the cross on the church.

Together
by jimmythefish

Comment:
from the critique club, Hi Jimmy

One of the best wedding photos I've ever seen. The detailing and contrat os first class - especially on the flowers. The highlighting of the rings is absolutely wonderful - this would win all sorts of competitions, I'm sure.

The reason it didn't win this one is because of the subject, obviously. Whilst it could quite happily be the future for many, it isn't specifically so. Can't say I'm sad about that - else you'd be way up above my shot :-)

Ed

Oh..oh. Is this my future?
by camelotnorth

Comment:
Hi from the CC, Betty.

Ooh. Didn't see this one - didn't vote. I love the effect, but I would imagine you were done for taking this too far away from photography, and into more art areas. Whilst that was obviously within the rules, I still think people were looking for stuff that was more clearly photos.

I'd be very interested to see the original - did it still manage to have that intensity of heat that you've caught with this? If so then I'd agree with the comment about the brush filter.

It fots the challenge clearly though, and there's certainly a quality to it that deserves far more than it's score or placing. Without the greyness at the bottom of frme it would be nothing though - very well done there.

Good luck

Ed

for sale
by ursula

Comment:
hi from the Critique Club Ursula

Lucked out? Guess so. difficult to make any really useful points about this - technically its absolutely fine, and it has some outstanding points: love the composition - the three lines of distance from the rocks, the beach and the fog line, the balance of the boat and the disappearing line of the fog, all excellent. Minor point - think I'd have tried to keep the top of the aerial in shot, but that's very minor indeed.

For me it lacked a real feeling of desolation - not quite that strong an emotion I thought - though your assessment of the voters ideas is clearly more accurate than mine :-)

Love the light, the contrast, the progresion of tones here too.

Ed

Summer in Orlando
by jcven

Comment:
You seem to have caught a great quality of light here - there's a real natural feeling to it that many people struggle to get. The artefacts and pixelation are a bit of a nightmare though - especially on the distant details. What happened? A real shame.

Barrenness
by stebbi76

Comment:
This just has to be one of you Icelandic gang, doesn't it? great work - especially to include that little clump of flowers to contrast the rest of it. I like alsi the fact that it's full colour - way too easy to go black and white for this challenge it seems. Whilst the light is excellent, the bulle sky lets things down a bit - just a touch too pleasant really, and you already have the flowers to add an edge. On a grey day ...

Desolated
by Remie

Comment:
Sky tones, the steam (?), the disorganisation of the wind turbines - it's like a landscape out of Terminator, only they never had this sophisticated an imagination. All that stops you getting a ten from me (a rare thing indeed) is the feeling that it's all a little too distant - I'd have tried less sky, perhaps losing the turbines to the left, and cropping closer to the 'islands', just to see how that felt (of course you may have, and may have rejected it). Still the most desolate shot this week :-)