... a man who sailed the sea
by anotherday

Comment:
Now he's the kind of bloke you want to take to a bar and get some of the stories out of him. I like this shot - you've managed to capture a certain pride there, an elegance, where I think many more simple photographres might have tried to make him seem just dirty and slightly distasteful. Fine work.

Spotlight Burst
by smilebig4me1x

Comment:
Nicely done - shows the fragility of the bloom.

Dragon Mountain
by PlanetMaker

Comment:
Various highlights and shading in the face of that cliff don't seem to bear any relation to moonlight, not the apparent shape of the stone, which is disconcerting to say the least; it makes it look as though it were variously lit with about ten different lights, whereas I'm fairly sure it's just processing. Nevertheless, its quite an intriguing image, and presumably successful to your aims.

Cut Flowers
by Tim

Comment:
Has the beginnings of a decent image, I think. It looks as though youv'e simply pushed the contrast quite far, when to get decently detailed black and white from digital requires more subtle work; it also has extremely shallow depth of field, leaving me unsure exactly which part of your image you consider to be the main point. The bright tips of one flower have become over-exposed, and either that depth if field or your processing hasn't left much to see in the other areas.

What's all this Noise about...."DNMC"
by ace flyman

Comment:
I like this, though the dtail level shows through the noise, and makes it sem rero-fitted, rather than integral to the shooting.

Angelfire
by vtruan

Comment:
I see your point, but I don't know that I would have looked hard enough without your title: cropping the image to make that shape more obviously the centre of attention might have helped.

Chains
by dgpilot

Comment:
Nice tonality, but not the kind of thing that does it for me, really.

My silhouettes in the dark
by sallyjo1

Comment:
Such regular right-angled lines really become quite unsettling, in a way that doesn't feel deliberate, if they're not framed absolutely squarely; either go for more diagonal, or properly square, but fractionally off is only ever going to look like a mistake, I'm afraid.

foreshadowing
by ralph

Comment:
Clever, especially the blurring of the chicken-shadow. The positioning of the egg itself is a little uncomfortable, perhaps because it doesn't sit well with the edge of the spotlight.

Enlightened Writing
by diablo2097

Comment:
Solid work - that deep blue is usually popular here. Unsure about the composition, as there seems a great deal of dead space to image left, and i can't quite see a use for it.