Hot, Lazy Afternoon
by jjbeguin

Comment:
Should have guessed it was yours JJ. More great work, I'm only slightly surprised it didn't score a little higher - but I suspect there aren't enough experienced eyes here to rate this above the what i fnd are rather too obvious shots which placed higher. Eighth ain't so bad though.

Ed

Art......!!
by agwright

Comment:
Your Critique Club moment, Tony. Hi.

My first and overwhelming reaction to this shot was/is 'I wish it were taken from a higher vantage point' - from just about level with the top of that wall would have given you a great contrast with the rest of the stone. Not so easily done as said, I'm sure, but I think it would have added a lot. The way it is, two things bug me: the amount of white sky in the shot - it's really quite a large amount of the image to be simply white; and the scaffolding (if that's what it is), chimneys and that grey building that intrude over the wall - thye pull the eye away from the wall pretty hard.

I don't plainly see an unanswered question - at least no more than I would in perhaps any photo, and I think for me that's what a shot in this challenge had to produce. Here I could be thinking 'why do this to a wall?', or 'do I consider this art?', and only now have I noticed that this a hoarding above a wall, not a higher part of the same wall as the stone. I'd have to guess that your point is along the lines of 'why do some people consider this to be art?' - but it's been a somewhat tortuous journey to get there.

Technically, there's no obvious problems, other than that of composition as I've mentioned earlier: and anyone who can take your weather challenge photo needs no help from me. I get the impression that this is an entry informed by some anger (really am guessing now - but did the Festival Theatre commission the horading painting?) rather than in hope of winning a challenge, though. Good luck in future

Ed

Preserved
by jillz

Comment:
I neither entered nor voted on this challenge - I couldn't clearly see my way through the forest of confusions of meanings and aproaches: my dominant thought was 'surely any decent photograph should have an element of the unanwered to it?'

I don't think I really see the question: one feeling from seeing a specimen jar is that it's an answered question. As to the image tecnically: no problems - perhaps a little straightforwardly documentary rather than illustrative, and the distortion is a little distracting. The capture of light is excellent, really well done - maybe a fraction shorter exposure would have added some more depth, but that's a minor point, and the variety of tones here is well captured.

Don't think, in the scheme of things, you're unfairly treated by the final score of this picture, nor it's 44th place.

A final note: if you're asking for critiques, at least entering the ISO, aperture and shutter speed would be courteous - and perhaps some idea of what you were attempting in the comments would probably make the critics comments more helpful to you.

Green in Front - a Meditation
by Starbright1973

Comment:
I can't see any relevance to the challenge subject here whatsoever - even after some thought.

I'm ccccold!
by ursula

Comment:
That very brutal flash lighting really doesn't help this shot. Beyond that, maybe a little steam coming from the cup or something would aid the illusion. It's more of a pity as there looks to be some really interesting textures here.

Fried
by Pedro

Comment:
Nice idea - but looks like an egg got pre-fried and then placed on the road - even more than the other version of this idea does. perhaps if you'd partially fried it and then put it down it would convince more?

'Nuff Said
by alanfreed

Comment:
I like the idea - but it looks rather like you put a fried egg on the road, rather than the road fried the egg.

Where there's smoke...
by kavamama

Comment:
Great shot, great composition too - almost like a Bierstadt painting. Could have used some noise reduction perhaps.

High noon
by SoulHunter74

Comment:
Nice crop, and nice idea. Would like to have seen a more intersting subject for the lower part of the frame though - the bush/trees doesn't particularly help the feeling of heat for me.

Keeping eggs warm
by pitsaman

Comment:
Hope this isn't too close to your house: I've just had pigeons nest on my balcony, and you will not believe the mess that gets made whilst the chicks are growing, not the effort you'll need to get rid of them once they've started flying.

Good shot - though i think its connection to the challenge is just a little forced. No, it's a great shot - but the second part still applies.