The Desk Key
by Marjo

Comment:
I can't study this shot without wondering if it would rise or fall without the shadow. I like the shadow and the context and perspective it adds while wishing I could see the photo without it. Having said that -- it's really my problem perceptually and doesn't stop me from admiring the shot. Clean ... simple ... minimal. That IS after all, what we were after ... and you've done a great job achieving it. Best of luck!

Old Man
by H R Verry

Comment:
Very nicely captured! If this were anything but an Open Challenge, I'd hope you'd have cloned out the sign just to the man's left as it does pose a bit of distraction -- but basic editing is basic editing and I'll take the image at face value. I don't know what's out of frame to the right so suggesting a split second later exposure would be presumptuous and do you little good at this point. Constraints aside, this very nicely makes the man the strong subject called for by virtue of his stark absence of features amid the amply lit background. Conspicuous by their absence, his features would only distract while his silhouette stands on its own. Nice work!

One Man's Dream
by mreza

Comment:
My understanding of Minimalism is almost surely insufficient to judge the purest aspects of whether or not any particular image meets or misses the classic spirit of the genre. And yet this photo looks and feels just like something I'd tried and failed to accomplish. In noting my failure, I'm forced to salute your success .. thanks for showing me one way that I might have approached it had I been better prepared and clearer in my thoughts. My attempt was based on my thoughts that this idea would work -- that it would qualify -- and in the end, that this would succeed. Here's hoping your degree of success with it is all it should be.

Symbolism
by JPR

Comment:
I like the simplicity and starkness of this a lot -- while thinking the whole time that I'm missing the 'message' of the Symbolism the title alludes to. Nonetheless, I keep looking at it and finding the isolated and apparently disembodied head and hand most fascinating. Well done!