The Creation of Atom
by Keith Maniac

Comment:
A brief glance at the first page of thumbnails shows about five shots of these things - I rather think you're going to suffer from voter 'seen-it-before' syndrome with this. That said, it's well done and you've had the patience or luck to wait for a good shape from the beam thing. The hand just lacks a touch of sharpness - a little motion perhaps? Nothing for it to rest on? It's nice work - just, as I said, a really very obvious kind of thing to enter in this challenge.

Can't miss it
by jjbeguin

Comment:
I don't understand why the voting public at large can't see that this is so much more interesting than the obvious images that have won this challenge. Perhaps it's a self-perpetuating thing, concentric circles.

Grow Old With Me - The Best is Yet to Be
by Sammie

Comment:
Nice work; the erlative positioning of the two privileges him, which is possibly a shame, although one understands the desire to keep the stonework in shot. It has an almost classical feel, and would maybe have been even more arresting in black and white. It's compassionate, and I like that.

Dancing with Cows
by messerschmitt

Comment:
Excellent photo. Has a distortion of scale, and a bizareness of composition and organisation of subject that I really enjoy. Marvellous toning, too. Lovely work.

Creep
by Nitesead

Comment:
I enjoy this almost as much for its sheer contrast to the rest of these images as for itself. Can't imagine I'll come back to it much, but it breaks up the show nicely.

Past and Present
by brizmama

Comment:
Fun - especially catching them airborne. The foreground ... ? Sure, it adds some depth, but perhaps it might have been darkened more to draw the eye a little less.

Arwa
by Xilebo

Comment:
Good spirit, good moment. A little flattened by the flash perhaps, but its a nice portrait.

Stripes
by spydr

Comment:
Strong detail and toning - and the orange makes a real difference from the usual green for this kind of shot. The less bokeh'd leaves in the background will proably be pointed out as a distraction by some - I'm unsure, but they certainly add a dynamic that works somewhat against the lines of the rest of the image.

Do you want to dance with me?
by zaflabout

Comment:
I'd really love this if it weren't for the selective de-sat: sure, they have red dresses - but is that really the strong point of this image? For me, it detracts entirely from the strange interactions of the dancers, the falseness in some of those smiles, the leering, the sense of slight desperation. Red dresses are completely incidental, I think.

Kyoto
by nfessel

Comment:
Somehow, I think you might have made more of the similarities between the lily pads and the stones. Those variations on a theme of circles might an add an element that I think is missing otherwise - in that this, whilst well toned, quite nicely composed (I have reservations about the left-hand stone) depends purely on those stones for its impact, and that is maybe not enough alone?