The Calm Sea
by pall

Comment:
Amazing extraction of perfect lines and colors from an imperfect world. 10

Aria
by skewsme

Comment:
Lovely, echoing how dreams feel.

Unidentified Flying Pear
by hajeka

Comment:
Enjoying the irony of using a classic "still" life subject in a "motion" challenge. Nice graphic quality. Wish the highlight would be a little softer. 9

"Escalator Temporarily Stairs. Sorry for the Convenience."
by jjbeguin

Comment:
Generates thoughts of the ordinary transitioning to the sublime (one of the best reasons for making an image). Placing this very high in my scores.

weed dance
by LevT

Comment:
Love the complexity emerging from such simple shapes and limited colors. The sense of depth and motion evoke compounded feelings -- mixture of peace and beauty with hint of mystery and perhaps sadness. Excellent image.

Mr. Nimbus
by odriew

Comment:
Back to bump up a point after finally seeing the face in the thumbnail. Full size, the drops capture the most attention, but the overall effect is interesting.

Inside Out
by Judi

Comment:
Masterful use of light and thoughtful capture of expression. The scattered leaves echo the sense of adolescent transition, and convert this from a standard portrait to a visual essay on changes as life goes on. All the more poignent knowing the dramatic changes you have experienced this year. Amazing image.

Twin Lens Reflex 1953
by Senay

Comment:
Actually holds interest for me, but compoistion might be stronger with upper white space cropped closer to the subject.

Wild Winter
by hojop25

Comment:
The water drops give this a sense of cold, at least from their shapes and the amount of white. Nice isolation of main subject. The branch, pointing from right to left, moves the eye in the opposite direction from normal reading pattern. While this gives some tension, it would be interesting to try it flipped horizontally to see how that feels.

They gather at midnight
by jmritz

Comment:
Excellent composition for the challenge (no verticle or horizontal symmetry, people gathered away from center, and bright area clearly off-center) with lots of ambiguous figures to stimulate thinking about alternative meanings/interpretations. Maybe the grain is stronger than necessary, but it is very hard to understand why this would receive 29 votes of 3 or lower.