Mouse House
by lemondster

Comment:
That's pretty far off the ground for a mouse, but the concept is cute and entertaining. The overall image is too dark, though (though that's better than being too bright).

Lonely Heart
by LouiseB

Comment:
Pretty background, without being distracting, and the subject immediately draws the eye. The image as a whole is evocative as well. My only nit (that keeps this from being a 10), is that the center of the heart (candy?) is harshly reflective. This does draw the eye, but crosses over into painful glare, obscuring what it actually is.

To the water!
by gwendy

Comment:
The ducklings are cute and colorful, but the water is surreal and harsh.

fly away
by suemack

Comment:
Ack! Painful, tedious white background, and blurry subject.

Riverside Laundry
by desertdoc

Comment:
Without the title, I would have ignored the actual subject as just a distraction to a very beautiful, non-minimalist tree. Something more needs to draw the eye to the subject.

Countdown
by SycoPhant

Comment:
The bright whites are a bit hard on the eyes, but the use of depth of field is interesting. The subject, taken as the entire number pad, takes up a large part of the image, but conforms to classic minimalism, so no points docked for that.

Boat
by ssodell

Comment:
The line sticking up in the center is distracting, and the larger boats seem sharper and more of a subject than the small one with the person.

Flower
by merls

Comment:
The subject draws the eye, but the background goes too far in the opposite direction from being tedious (the most common problem so far) and is actually noisy and distracting.

Gull Flight
by jjim

Comment:
At least the clouds broke up the background somewhat (which is my most common complaint so far), but the subject just isn't very interesting, and seems slightly soft.

Light in the Darkness
by beetle76

Comment:
Good background and technically fine, but simple and not very interesting. Playing with contrast or highlights to bring out the clouds, or adding an external light to draw attention to the lamp might have helped.