Diabetes is her enviroment all day, every day. (she is giving herself an injection)
by Elvis_L

Comment:
Perhaps, making it plain enough that she is injecting herself without having to put that in the title would make a more effective photograph. You selective de-sat actually works against what your title suggests is the intent of this image, dragging the attention to completely the wrong place on the figure. It has potential though, this shot - but I don't think it succeeds; and that de-sat remains mystifying.

In his element
by Anastasia

Comment:
Well done - technically, almost boringly 'perfect' - and kind of camply, well, obvious? For me it's just a portrait with a couple of props thrown in to get that required element, rather than telling me anything interesting about this bloke. Right down to colouring the lamps, and the carefully revealed logo on the tripod, it smacks of an attempt to fulfill an idea of what the community likes. Kind of a shame, given such technical finesse.

The Machinist
by Gatorguy

Comment:
I like. Tonality is very well done. One might quibble with the balance of environment and portrait - how much of this machine do you actually need in the shot to give that impact? - and getting closer to him would give us more information, more character. There is a strong sense of the machine though, of the mechanical.

His Favorite Environment
by tooter

Comment:
I'd be interested to know in what way you see this as more than just a dog in a landscape - because, for me, it lacks any real sense of personality in the dog, any sense of his character, which i think is required by this challenge, no? The shot is pretty well executed - although the highlights go very quickly in the clouds.

Doomsday's Pachyderm Charge
by Matthew

Comment:
I must repeat Matthew, that as a record of the event, this is a masterful piece of composition - in the simplest way, you've given us the scale of the beast, without compromising the impact of the detail of the shot.

A. Peroni, Wine Grower.
by jjbeguin

Comment:
A viniculturist named for a beer brewer? perhaps that's what that secret smile is all about?

His Dreaded Domain
by espy2

Comment:
Slightly mad, slightly funny. The nearly insane processing, especially in the broad brush-strokes with which it is applied, suit the image; but it seems flattened by all that reduction of overall contrast (sky/ground, figure/tomb, face/clothes, gate/pillars), and so loses a huge amount of a photographic sense to my eye.

The Urban Explorer
by rob_franklin

Comment:
That balance of 'envoronment' and figure is hard to strike: I'm unsure of it here. The workd is great, though feels over-processed to my eye, and i wonder if there's enough character in that pose/figure to really communicate. I think it suffers most through a lack of local contrast about his face/head - placed against darker areas it might have been more effective.

Oregon 420
by vikas

Comment:
Nice work: perhaps you might have made a little more of the tonal contrasts here, and operhaps a bit more of his face - a black and white treatment would spring to mind, but that might just be me. The real intrigue is in the interrelation of his glasses and their reflection, and his face I think - and that would give you a real environment to play with, and even more, perhaps, of a portrait?

Doomsday's Pachyderm Charge
by Matthew

Comment:
I was down there on Sunday - and had the 'pachyderm' thought too, but couldn't find a suitably sounding overall title, and so idmsissed the idea. I'm not wholly convinced by yours either :-)

But I love this as a record of the event - the tiny figure of the operator is a master-stroke. I liked the girl more than the Elephant - and she had the chance of the word 'puppet' more relevantly. Nice work.