Fear of the Electric Bill
by TLL061

Comment:
Cool photo, and holy crap those people sure invest heavily in decorations! How much does one light up choir child cost, much less 100 of them?

I do not, however, think this demostrates a phobia, expensive as it must be. A phobia is honest terror that paralyzes someone.

Deferred
by rayz1

Comment:
LOL, persians always look the worst "deferred." Does it have the fluffy feet and tail?

Night Drop
by Dax-

Comment:
I find the macro focusing so frustrating on my own Oly 750. I'm amazed what you're able to do with that camera. I need to dust mine off and see if I can't do anything close to what you do with it.

Beautiful stuff, a real inspiration to me. :)

Morning Starlings
by torkien

Comment:
I like this quite a lot! I probably would've rotated it so the roof edge was horizontal, and cropped off that half a bird on the left side. It's nice though, I like the simplicity of it.

Atomic Clock
by Tom_Robbrecht

Comment:
Pretty cool take on the waterdrop reflection!

Mystical Creek
by tsheets

Comment:
I suspect this may be one of those images hurt by compression with all that fine detail in it. Did you have trouble getting it down to the 150K limit? I'd love to see a nice large print of it, I bet it would look lovely.

The warm colors are great, I love the leading lines of that creek pulling you deep into the photo, and the reflections in the water are great too. I think ideally I would prefer a bit tighter crop on the bottom (feels a little foreground heavy) and a bit more of that framing tree included on top.

Totally underrated in both score and percentile imo. Those free study competitions are tough ones though!

Christmas Candle
by Jbchess1

Comment:
The crop feels too tight, like the top part was inadvertently chopped off. I think a "portrait" orientation with the entire hurrricane lamp would've felt better. The bokeh in back is lovely -- Christmas tree?

Acadia Before Sunrise
by Neil

Comment:
Very pretty glowing clouds! It's almost an abstract in that it's just about broad areas of color with very little detail, other than some small areas of texture.

I wonder if this might look nice broken up into a triptych? It could emphasize the dominance of the central portion of the photo, with the two sides acting as more supportive players. All three would make nice photos on their own, the left side with the small penisula, the right with the water, the center with the bright clouds. But together they would make a better whole. (Or maybe I still have triptych on the brain since that recent challenge.)

Message edited by author 2005-12-10 16:55:03.

Machine Girl
by fadedbeauty

Comment:
I'm with those that thought this was pretty good actually (and even as a female, you know, not really my kind of subject...)

It was a good play on the word industrial, I guess some didn't really follow that. The model is nice, the pose is good, I like the expression on her face, I like the setting a lot. Criticisms include it being a tiny smidge overexposed on her ass and thighs, and I would have removed the black thing hanging down (ribbon? whip? I can't really tell what it is.)

Good effort, don't let people on this site get you down. I hope you continue to enter challenges.

Rise of the Machines
by ajschel

Comment:
This was probably my favorite in the challenge. Great use of silouette and that gradient in the sky is perfect. Those machines seem practically alive.