Eagle Owl
by morty

Comment:
Whilst there's always a fun aspect to selective de-sat, I have to say I dislike almost all uses of the technique: it makes your image more about your processing than your photography. The sheer weirdness of the stand-out eyes in a black and white image immediately distracts from consideration of your capture of the subject.

The Window
by SaraR

Comment:
Seems to exist almost completely in the lighter half of the spectrum - I feel no depth of tonality in this image. The flattening effect of this - the apparent absence of real shadow - is quite eye-catching, and quite strange: although rationally we can deduce that there are objects closer and further away from us, there is almost no visual clue to immediately suggest that.

On the range
by jblaylockrayner

Comment:
There's something (I think) unintentionally amusing about the horse: perhaps its just that the portrait part of the image is so - well, 'standard' would give the lie to it, but perhaps 'just as one would expect' is right; and then the horse, with its face turned toward us. There are strong leading lines that make the horse almost a stronger part of the composition than the man, and so we expect something from it.

Glimpse
by amber

Comment:
Feels like science fiction, like the beginning of the transporter beam; or maybe like a stage set, lit.

She's Got Legs
by Rissa

Comment:
Interesting take on, in this challenge, a moderately common subject - the zoo animal. The model-esque pose of the front legs is intriguing, and the lines throughout add a sense of understanding.

somewhere, sometime
by Skip

Comment:
I'm quite taken with the little guy on the end, who doesn't seem to know that he should be holding onto the others, and is just going is own way.

Storm at Sea
by jerseyjim

Comment:
Strong sense of the enormity of the sky, although there's likewise a strong sense of too much processing in those clouds.

Me
by trnqlty

Comment:
If only it wasn't for that utterly bizarre processing, this could surely have been a delightfully self-deprecatory image.

Fire Fighter
by navyasw02

Comment:
Fire in the sewer? I don't even want to start pondering on the implications of that ...

One-man band
by scaramanga

Comment:
Oh at last - I was beginning to think I'd been condemned to look at a ceaseless round of bland landscapes, blooms and other people's children being cute for all eternity. All of a sudden I find myself capable of facial reaction again. Despite a suspicion of over-processing - his cloak looks impossibly smooth, really, this has charm, elegance and just a touch of subversion in the bicycle wheel.