Ancient Medicine
by bruski

Comment:
This one seems to fit the bill very well, in regard to it's abstract, chaotic and messy composition. I would dare say it is a hair too messy, and could have used just a tiny bit more tuning. The gremlin of this challenge: ...messiest, blurriest, disorganized that you can, and still have it interesting and engaging. I feel like you achieved this to some degree, and have posited an above average submission in this sense. Overall, a fine entry, and I scored accordingly. Many entries are simply messy, and blurry, and don't interest me. This one does, just not overtly.

Good job!

Rosemary Shattered
by C_Steve_G

Comment:
I'm really happy to see such creativity in such a tough challenge - and will mention the elements that stand out here. Creative use of blurriness, slightly messy (probably not enough for most voters), and would have benefitted from the glass being completely shattered somehow. I'll add this two cents: the subject isn't much in the way of engaging, but it was interesting enough for me to take a few minutes here. I appreciate an inventive entry - many were simply a "mess". Good job!

Glass
by ottersden

Comment:
A fine entry, and very creative. Nice abstract, and this would look good on a wall, to boot. Well done!

But having said that - it's hard to imply that there's somehow anything "messy" in this image, since the consequences seem completely intended, rather than the inverse.

I was looking for a bit more originality, and an element of the "unplanned", which is what makes this challenge so hard to score.

turbulence
by tate

Comment:
There's a few of these on the challenge, and I think this is the best of the "camera spin" effect. Very engaging for me, and fits the criteria, albeit in a simplistic fashion. Some won't see mess, but what do they want, some garbage (literal) floating around? I'd rather look at this.

My exploration of this image says to me that this is a tree, and the simple chaos in the natural subject is applicable to the wording of this challenge - if not it's implied idea.

I'm not awarding any points for being overtly creative, but I'm not scoring this as a simple abstract either. The subject was key for me here.

Its A Wonderful Life
by tpbremer

Comment:
Great use of the Blurred Mess license!!! And one of the best in this challenge IMO. You could caption this "Blurry Mess" and it works. Very nice!

My criteria for scoring these is with an objective, open mind to a criteria/theme with many subjective terms. I can see you took a more literal approach, and see no broach of challenge criteria as per the wording used. Since it has the appearance of disorganized and chaotic, and messy subject matter, who am I to say this isn't a fine entry?

I know that the challenge theme is implied to to encourage a less compositional approach, but I would say it allows for more creative license due to it's completely subjective wording. I really like this capture.

I didn't want to see simple abstracts in this challenge - I wanted to see different and original ideas as to what could express "blurry mess" on the whole, and you accomplished that here.

Spin Art
by dahved

Comment:
Another common camera-action abstract. I was looking for more creativity with the challenging theme, and am not particularly engaged by what is otherwise a fine capture.

Believe
by gclark

Comment:
Otherwise fine photography - but lacking that chaotic, unintended consequence that would make something here appear messy, and less compositional, a touch of disorder - something unordinary that catches color or light in unique, interesting ways. I'm not gonna ding for having an in focus element, but my criteria is that at least the subject should be blurred. Only the background is, here.

I have found a few creative entries, but I can't qualify this as a creative use of this particularly challenging theme.

Beyond the Hazy Colors
by ocninon

Comment:
This seems like another average, blurry photo to me, and not wholeheartedly in the spirit of the theme. I'm not gonna ding you for it, but I'm not going to award any messy, chaotic, or disorganized points either. Although this is an otherwise fine capture, it fails to engage, or delight when it's such an obvious design.

I'm looking for fundamentally unintended consequences of light and color when scoring these.

Flower Power!
by cogerox

Comment:
I would classify this as another common abstract, that almost seems too easy for this challenging theme. Blurry, indeed. But it's hard to call this messy, or chaotic, when it has little "out of control" elements that would suggest it wasn't a completely planned consequence of of a planned camera action. That's what makes this challenge so difficult to navigate. This is a situation where a different subject may have helped - something nebulous, fragmented, or amorphous that you couldn't account for how the light may have played out - but would have an interesting, engaging result. This describes what I was looking for, elementally speaking, in this challenge. I did find a precious few that fit this description.

Are these flowers? That's what it looks like to me - though I won't use my guess in the scoring here. Either way, this seem like an average abstract.

Not poor by any means, but nothing outstanding either.

Kaleidoscope
by Gringo

Comment:
This is yet another where I must appease the "mess" gods, which is a very subjective term. I'm approaching this as though you concieved it as "messy" as a whole, in which case this fits the theme - but I would like to have seen more elements of disorganization in here, or something "out of control" with unintended consequences. Overall, a prismatic photo with a nice look, but ultimately an average quasi-abstract. Perhaps a different subject would have helped?