Makeing power at Sunset
by griz210

Comment:
Seems to me that a closer zoom, with a vertical orientation keeping just the plant and the reflection, would work better. "If it's not good enough, you're not close enough"...

Piano Man
by bvy

Comment:
Not bad... you do seem to have captured a mood, a feel, a moment, beyond the usual visual contact. However, the image is a bit hard to "read" and somehow feels a bit "incomplete" to me... 7 points.

d i S c O n n E c T
by timfythetoo

Comment:
Woo-hooo... excellent! So full of meaning - exactly what I wish we had more of at DPC. Exceptional idea with the diagonal orientation. Only thing I can fault it for is that the color is a bit distracting - would have made a killer B&W.

Blake House
by EstimatedEyes

Comment:
Good composition, but I feel like the Shadow/Highlight adjustment has been a bit overused here; as was sharpening...

Bank Shot, Side Rail
by GeneralE

Comment:
Well - there's an original reflection! Extra points for the most unique challenge interpretation so far; unfortunately the image does not have much going for it otherwise...

X
by levyj413

Comment:
It's amazing how a little change, like a rotation, can throw a viewer so far away... all that would look familiar and I wouldn't spend more than a microsecond on, now looks new and interesting...

A couple of extra points for this original idea.

Migration
by kawesttex

Comment:
Let me add my voice to the people who love this shot - it obviously stands out in the challenge, probably the only image from this challenge that I will remember a month from now. But also it is a great image in its own right, regardless of challenge descriptions and so on. The composition is beautiful, with the lines leading me through the image and making me read it in its entirety before finally resting on the lake and trees. The tones and muted contrast is just fantastic, and the grain contributes to the image as well. Congratulations on a very good shot.

Snow monkey
by UrfaK

Comment:
This is my work monitor which is set to high contrast, so most pics don't look as good as they otherwise would. So this one looks a bit too contrasty; I would also say it's slightly over-sharpened.

What's even worse though is what looks like JPEG artifacts on the face. I'm guessing that the square-ish aspect ratio and the sharpened picture resulted in a large file size which forced you to save with a low JPEG quality setting to meet the size requirement. On this contrasty monitor, it kind of shows.

As a suggestion, maybe sharpen the tree less? It both kills your file size and distracts attention from your subject...

Safe Harbor
by scalvert

Comment:
"OK... so he gets 6th, and I get 49th." Yeah well - the power of Photoshop :)

now and into the future
by grigrigirl

Comment:
Fantastic shot. I loved their expressions, the old couple in the background and the reflection in the window. The only thing I didn't like (so a 9 not a 10 from me) was the "Fine Art" inscription, I found it distracting. Anyway, congrats on a great, but very underrated shot.