Ice Flow
by aberration

Comment:
Good light, although there are elements that make it seem over-processed - where the trees suddenly seem to lose contrast to image right, for instance. Could just be a natural weirdness of light, but it still looks wrong. Composition is fine.

Winter
by jonr

Comment:
Nice composition, though the bottom right thing might effectively have been removed. The balance of elements in frame is good, but I find the brown foliage area a bit of a let-down - it adds a rather chaotic element to a clean composition.

BEAUTIFUL AUSTRALIAN LORIKEET
by coolblue

Comment:
The blue border is horrible - it weakens the impact of the blue in the image. Compositionally though, there is some interesting stuff here. There are three obvious elements to consider - the bird, the foliage, and the white lines - and those white lines are the most immediate impact here. They might have made a useful compositional element, had you, for instance used them to balance the bird in frame, but here - where they appear to be an unconsidered background element - they just annoy the eye.

Preserving The Past
by BrianR

Comment:
Difficult shot to assess - the strange light is quite interesting, but there's something strange going on in the sky, and cutting the bottom left corner of cthe building is an odd thing to do. Filling just one corner with foreground foliage is also a touch random - it can work, but generally requires more of a full frame around the image to not look like a mistake. In the end though, it's just a full front of a building, with, for me, not enough interest to make an impact: the strange colouring just seems like an attempt to win something back from an OK but not spectacular shot.

Fall
by Nanate

Comment:
I think you could have worked up the composition of this more effectively - the feather is just lying across the frame with no apparent consideration of the overall impact. Given the line/lines shape of the feather, I think you might have used that to make a strong element in frame - say, for example, a strong diagonal, and finding other elements to balance it and fill in the corners. This is a difficult kind of thing to learn though, as the 'standard rules' only apply in such obvious ways.

S'now Fun.
by Pedro

Comment:
Decent portrait; especially the near-total lack of expression. Good strong processing, and your border is, for once, absolutely necessary to separate those grey tones from the site background.

Support
by zheka

Comment:
The bokeh is good - just enough for the leading lines just visible enough to lead to your subject. Detail is strong in the pulley, but I just don't find enough interest in this presentation of it.

Diagonal Reflections
by ludde

Comment:
There's bound to be some controversy about this kind of shot: simply rotating an image to meet the challenge requirements - well, actually I don't think it works. Your composition, regardless of the swivel, is still based on an entirely vertical/horizontal opposition. It's a nice shot, however - good mood and sense of light. But I'd have thought it was more of an opportunity to investigate the ideas of a more complex compositional approach.

stairs
by nutzito

Comment:
Strong compositional sense - and that alone sets this apart in this challenge - aand good solid technicals. I can't see that its involving enough, either on a human or a spectacular level to well here, and even allowing for the manner in which the handrail takes the eye away in a nice dynamic against the actual direction of the stairs, it lacks, for me, something more to really engage attention.

Alone
by facesastheycome

Comment:
Has an intriguing feel of the super-(or perhaps rather supra-) natural about it, especially aided by that motion blur.