July Wonders
by dizneewench

Comment:
By a number of normal photographic metrics this is a not a good photo; everything is blurry except a wrinkle in a tee shirt. The photo is suffused with a wierd and ugly otherworldly aqua glow. The subject, fireworks take up less than a third of the shot. It is strange in a very surreal way. And that surreal strangeness appeals to me.

Rooftop Fireworks
by geekssweet

Comment:
This is sort of the Jackson Pollock of the fireworks series. I'm not a Jackson Pollock fan, but I like this oddball collection of smudges for reasons I will never be able to explain. Nice Job.

River on Fire
by TooCool

Comment:
There are some things I love about this photo - the fireworks reflection in the water and the boat. I wonder whether the photo might be beter without the right third.

Laguna beach fire works show
by Fastexposure

Comment:
The lighing in this shot strikes me as post-apocalyptic; it's a great look, with the fire and smoke and shroud of darkness.

Light Slips Through Holes
by right_field

Comment:
I like the idea. I find the glare on the wall rather distracting. And I wish the paper had no lines and showed more texture. Knowing I usually crop too tightly, I think the photo would be a bit better with some cropped from the bottom. Finally, I might have played with hue and saturation a bit. This photo might be better as a sepia or b&w to emphasize the form rather than the color - which is not that interesting.

Pen to Paper
by H700256

Comment:
The form is interesting. I like the repeating and amplifying loops. There is a sense, however, that the highlights are blown. And I guess I don't get the great empty space at the top ( if the title is referring to the great vacuum of space, then we would be expecting to see the pen at some distance from paper floating in the blackness of space as in "Pen to paper, pen to paper. Come in paper. Over" )

Six
by sherpet

Comment:
A lovely arrangement of stationary pencils. Does one draw on stationery? I hope so, because I like this photo.

Captivating Correspondence
by maestro

Comment:
I love the idea. Photographically speaking the execution is superb. It seems like it ought to be a quibble, but I really find the font on the document to look too anachronistic. The message in a bottle is a seventeenth century thing, isn't it?

Lost Evidence
by SherwinJames

Comment:
Great idea. Great lighting. I think I might have desaturated that tie a little more. And I find the vertical crack a little distracting.

I WAS THERE!!
by Car54

Comment:
Clever idea. It takes some time for it to make an impact. But the more I look at it the more I like it.

Isn't it interesting how once the plaza had space for a numer of international flags but now its dozens of flagpoles fit only American ones?