The "X" Mark
by gg3rd

Comment:
A pity, to my eye, that your processing has taken this so very far away from the ordinary 'photograph'. Apart from the fact that this isn't a place that repays such looks with any kindness, I would suggest it detracts from the interesting visual phenomenon of that 'X'.

Straight & Up
by Alain

Comment:
Quite interesting - though your choice of having the rails run directly up the screen has left the bridge/tower thing seeming tilted to the right. I wonder if you mightn't have been better repaid by trying to trade off the severe regularity of that ironwork with the organic (and visually appealing) snow-dusting on the trees?

The Wonders of Concrete
by nparekh

Comment:
Your choice of the shallow depth of field forces the attention to the very bottom of frame, to no real purpose that I can discern: I'd have thought it was the overall graphic of this shot which would interest - in fact, it might have been a pretty interesting shot with a huge depth of field, allowing the eye to travel the full length of those steps in both directions.

Roma
by unicum

Comment:
Good photography. The Cinquecento is perhaps just a touch too warped by the lens for my liking - there's enough comment in the scene, and in the collection of junk under the wiper blades already, perhaps? - but the location, tonality and the overall groove of this is marvellously effective.

The Stockboy's Perspective
by posthumous

Comment:
Now here's an interesting shot; to my mind it cries out for black and white - or at the very least a heightening of the contrast to bring out the closing lines of those shelves - and you slight wide-angle works terribly well to suggest the shelves towering over him too. You might have hoped to catch a better moment fom your unsuspecting model? Some sense of weariness perhaps? He seems just a touch ordinary, just working, just a bit disengaged from any emotion or feeling. But these are all nit-picking points - I like this shot a good deal.

On the Bridge
by Michaels

Comment:
The recession is quite kind on the eye, though overall it's perhaps a touch too unchallenging for me: I wonder if you might not have made it a more austere and strange composition by shooting from the level of the topmost handrail, dividing the frame into quarters with that andit's shadow and the lighting conduit above?

Ye Old Mill
by hanae

Comment:
Good detail, and interesting crop.

5th century BC
by yianisn

Comment:
The negative space makes a good point of the fallen column - though that might be a touch too sophisticated for the average rapid voter, perhaps. I might personally have wated a bit more detail - just a touch more of the damn things visible, really - in the standing columns, which, like this, become more of a wall perhaps.

In His Eyes
by movieman

Comment:
I enjoy this - the positioning of the image in the frame within frame is effective - just enough of lips, eyes, hair and cheekbone to emphasise the make-up, without making it seem too posed. The background disturbs a little - just a bit too close to being in focus perhaps, and therefore drawing the eye in an attempt to discover wat it is? It might have made a fine black and white image - that would enhance the strange graphic composition, and reduce the absolute impact of the orange and the background.

Echoes of Thunder
by Imagineer

Comment:
Good stuff Jon - almost like Gursky in its vagueness, but impeccable composition. Up in the heady heights of the 300's too.