Something To Lean On
by beam

Comment:
I keep hoping for something to emerge from those shadows, like a stick-figure leaning on the crutch, but it isn't happening. It's a competent shot, well lit and nicely enough detailed, but I can't see it as an engaging image.

Here Comes The Sun
by Pixelstate

Comment:
Nice landscape, though a little more shape to the foreground rocks would have been nice - the light has become just a bit flat there; a touch more contrast might also help the feel of the title in the shot.

Strawberry "Fields Forever"
by sherpet

Comment:
I like the graphic lines and the contrasty quality of the light on the leaves - I'm less sure about the over-done arrangement of strawberries bottom left. I think I'd have believed they werer strawberry plants without that - and there's an incongruity about these berries collected with a bunch of not-in-fruit plants.

Mother Nature's Son
by k4rp

Comment:
As a landscape I like this - the great DOF is effective, adding an element of graphic interest as well as simply the view. The contrail in the sky - the vertical one - works slightly clumsily against the effect of the rest of the lines in the shot, perhaps. Fine tonality, though a little judicious shading might have helped emphasise your subject for the DPC voters.

yesterday
by gully

Comment:
This is an idea I like, although i think the execution really has problems - it looks straight-from-camera, and lacks a great deal of definition, and certainly of contrast, and is dark. I'd brighten it, raise the black level to return the shadows, and certainly convert it to black and white - what colour information there is here, is badly off and very green. In bringing that definition to her face, you'd probably find some of the highlights in the reflections would burn out, but as the real point of this image is that face, that wouldn't be an issue really - it would add to the 'street' sense of the image.

There's a chance that we may fall apart before too long
by Lena

Comment:
It's difficult to say that there's anything actually wrong with this per se - but it isn't an appealing image, nevertheless. The total isolation of tha black background is very well done, but it really exposes any composition to close scrutiny, and this doesn't work for me: the two diagonals suggested by the shoes conflict quite a bit - being neither symmetrical nor off-centred, but somewhere between; the light, for me, is too flat to really show details of the textures that would speak of batteredness - I think that's simply the use of too much fill light - rather than the usual problem of direct flash - so that the shadows are wiped out rather more than would really be effective.

The Long and Winding Road
by Brad

Comment:
Whilst it's perfectly fitting for the challenge, the main problem this image suffers from is the simple quality of light when you took it. It's clearly country accustomed to intense heat, but that very over-head sun doesn't do anything to really illuminate this landscape - it simply makes it visible. At a later time of day, the more sloping light would cast shadows on those contours that would make the shapes of the landscape more understandable in a photograph - it's a shadows that enable us to determine the shapes of things, and in this light, there are none.

Day Tripper
by jjbeguin

Comment:
Oh, I can just imagine that comments box filling up with wails of non-understanding. I wonder if, in a composition so full of the incidence of lines, a little correction to the lens distortion might not have been valid? Sure, it's slight, but it seems to my weak eye that the main force of this is in the rigid geometry of most of these structures - even in the diagonal of the wiring gantry and its shadow, which we know, actually, to be just as right-angled as the rest (another point follows) - and that slight curvature of the extremities brins a warp to the whole idea that I don't quite understand. I'm prepared to accept that the failing there is my own, mind you.

That rigid geometry is of course broken primarily by the ubiquitous and non-rigid cone, and utilising that subtle trick of making the dead centre of image the strong point - because we can go anywhere from there, and yet of course the sheer day-glo brightness of it drags the eye repeatedly back to that point: we can go industrial in the foreground, to the city-scape, or even as far as the clouds, and yet we ar made to return to the humdrum every time. What could be a better day trip than that? Infinite possibilities, and the promise of one's own bed at the end of it.

Glorious stuff.

all the lonely people
by akioe

Comment:
I don't see a reason for it, but your whites are terribly grey here - really not much more luminosity thatn the site's own background, which not only makes your image seem restricted in dynamic range, but completely odd.

"Sitting in his nowhere land"
by yanko

Comment:
I suspect it's burning/dodging, but something weird is happening with his left leg, isn't it? An almost escher-like confusion of relative position - look at th trouser and it seems so much more straightened than his right, and yet the foot is apparently touching the pavement at more or les the same distance.