The Crossing Guard
by Coley

Comment:
Well, I guess it is at least shot on the street; although of course the posed shot, and the overly portentous subject are probably too much of a push for the genre really.

Past and Present
by Bogi

Comment:
Seems almost stage-set-like - perhaps simply the two-dimensional appearance of the house-front. Took me a while to see and register the pair of shoes. The light is strange though - the spot-lit nature of the boxes, without any apparent source for that light, which takes away, for me, some of the impact - it gives it a sense of being staged.

Carefree childhood
by Zigomar

Comment:
Full impact. Not a lot more to say, is there?

Fish Tales From The Hood
by Hipychik

Comment:
I love the door - the fact that it appears to be locked; looks like you could push the whole door, frame and all, over with one finger.

Street Kid in Sydney
by vlado

Comment:
Extraordinarily strange composition; has good punch

The Trouble with High View Close
by Imagineer

Comment:
I rather like this shot - it holds some connection with our cold yorkshire mornings in winter, I suppose. i'm not certain the composition is entirely happy - there's that central line that is a bit clumsy, and the speed of the sweep of curve on the right is perhaps a bit inconclusive - I mean, it takes the eye to a place that is not really comfortable, and so leaves a feeling of an unsatisfactory journey. I like your tonality, but think that little more excitement in the distribution of elements throughout the frame would have more impact.

Similarly, the two cars make a fairly strong eye-catcher in this image - they're brighter, they're familiar, and yet you have them completely obscured by those bushes. I wonder if you've played with your possible angles and compositions enough here - tried shooting from higher, or lower, or a few steps to one side or the other, and then assessed those shots when you got home? It just feels pretty plain to me that you could have found a more satisfying composition ...

Planned Unit Development
by banmorn

Comment:
Fine photo. It's the little touches of suggested humanity - those rubbish bags and the bin, mainly, that really give this its sinister impact.

Lost In Translation.
by twotkyns

Comment:
Also slightly lost in background, huh?

Calm Before The Storm In The Suburbs
by J-Me

Comment:
This does it for me: the strange world of mix-and-match near-identical homes, and everything built for the car.

Doin' Yardwork
by klkitchens

Comment:
Nice image; reminiscent, in a way, of Martin Parr's work on England: the colour saturation, the humdrum subject, the off-beat but effective composition.