screaming attention
by poindexter

Comment:
Just too weird, perhaps?

Moment of Peace
by skylercall

Comment:
A centred composition, it seems to me, depends a great deal on real regularity of composition to work well; the off-set of that background light disrupts that, and your negative space to the edges of frame don't seem everso useful.

Verde
by trumpetwalrus

Comment:
Neat. Perhaps filling the frame might have made for more impact? Might have emphasised that wrap-around of the body more? I wonder if it's a touch over-exposed as well - I yearn for some deeper darkness here.

Winter Vacation
by inanutshell

Comment:
Quite frightening; a touch more pondering on composition might well have paid off.

The Clown
by rkligman

Comment:
Given that nose, how about a square aspect ratio? The extreme wide-angle is fun, but I wonder if that mightn't have been more fun still ...

Full Moon
by marbo

Comment:
Excellent detail - thr touble with the full moon though, by definition, is that the light is very flat, and so there's no sense of the three-dimensionality of it here.

Powdered Piñon
by Ristyz

Comment:
I like the fact that you've chosen a square framing - always makes the centre point stronger: however, it also emphasises the geometry of composition, and the tilted line of the horizon - I know, it's a slope, it should be tilted - seems out of place in this format. Good thinking otherwise, though.

Town Council
by MichaelC

Comment:
I think, after a little more looking, that I'd have cropped it a touch from the right too; I think that would re-emphasise the animal in the doorway of the building. Colour is, for once, right for this shot - it reminds me a little of the high-saturation work of Martin Parr, and there are few higher compliments. Thanks for putting it up, for letting us see it. Not a bad score for DPC with a social photograph.

Joy of Speed
by goc

Comment:
I would take some comfort in the fact that some exceptional judges of a photograph have given you big scores for this; in fact, just about all of DPC's top judges. But ehnh, that score and that finish are not really to be sniffed at. Top work, and fun.

Red River Inlet at Full Ebb
by Bear_Music

Comment:
Ah, I don't understand; I'd have nailed this as a winner, but then we get these funny, fairly obvious images up there, and this down in 37th. But I don't understand those preferences, so I wouldn't understand the results now, would I? Even through that glass, I'm certain this deserved better.

But I also think your stuff has changed since you've been a part of this place - no mean feat for an experienced photographer, and for 'just' a web site. Maybe it's just the 10-22, and its oddly likeable lack of distortion, but I think it's not that simple. The question would be - has your stuff improved? Or has it become more DPC oriented? Or is that just the stuff you show here? Intriguing ...

Anyhow, thanks for your appreciation of my stuff, and here's to a fulfilling 2007.