Cirsium vulgare (Spear Thistle)
by robsmith

Comment:
Thistle = flower.

This is a really nice shot, aside from not meeting the topic. I would, in a different challenge, have scored this much higher; I like the way you've caught the seedlings flying off.

Spider & the Fly
by pottersclay75

Comment:
It's not that this isn't an interesting picture. It's that it gives no sense of being in a garden.

No!
by Grandmom

Comment:
No objections to your actual choice (or title), but two comments:

1) Is that a cat hair on the apple? It sure looks like it. It's very distracting, regardless of what it is.

2) The apple looks a bit overly purple, which may well be all entirely natural but seems odd. Given what you're representing, I think you might have been better off with a redder variety.

Vine Ripe
by jas0420

Comment:
This is the first fruit (/veggie) picture I've seen that has actually captured my interest for more than the initial scan-and-vote, and yes, I'm a fair ways through voting. You made this a lot more interesting by use of the knife (seems a little clean to have just been used, btw, but maybe I'm missing it due to angle) and cut tomato; the garden gloves are also a nice touch.

I keep going back to the knife. I think the fact that it's as shiny as it is doesn't just bug me because it seems too clean but because it draws the eye away from the tomatoes, which I'd presume were more likely your main subject. Maybe the angle of blade could have been different -- I wouldn't change the light as I think it looks good as is -- or maybe a slightly less shiny knife would have been useful in this case.

In any event, overall I really like this. Even without the flowers in the background I would have thought of this as 'in' the garden with the other hints -- I've done almost the same thing, picked veggies and eaten them while still outside -- so it's a familiar idea to me. (And fresh, sun-warm, ripe tomatoes are yummy.)

Mill Stream Garden
by BAMartin

Comment:
This is an absolutely gorgeous picture. But I don't see how it qualifies as a garden, I'm afraid. If it were a primarily man-made scene instead of a natural one I might concede it was on topic, but that's not the case, is it.

"Office".... Art
by tfarrell23

Comment:
Every time you pun, a devil gets its fangs.

And I suppose it's on topic, since it's a guy on a phone in what looks to be an office. Reasonable candid snapshot.

BUT WHERE ARE HIS EYES?

Holdin' It All Together
by karmat

Comment:
Is this the colour vs black and white war? I want to know how you got this effect. Kind of interesting 'growing from the corner' 3d thing with the clip going on there. Conceptually a little... I really need a word other than 'abstract' here for this sort of thing. "I don't get it." would be too strong, though.

Fan the Paper Before Installing in Printer
by DennisF

Comment:
Too abstract for my tastes, even knowing what it 'is' it comes off that way; if you hadn't said in the title I would have not been sure what I was looking at. Something to ground the viewer in terms of identifying the setting and subject would be helpful.

Office at Sea
by orussell

Comment:
You know, I think I have that compass.

Anyhow. I don't know, this doesn't really scream 'office' to me, although it does say 'job', so it's not out of the question. It looks reasonably natural-setting rather than staged, which is nice.

one for the scrapbook
by indigo997

Comment:
You know, this is an amazing photo and the old-fashioned items are just keen, but I'm not entirely sure it would be my first choice for 'office'. I don't say it's OFF topic -- I was one of the people who noted a home office would count, and this sort of is -- but it's just not what I'd have thought of.

I mean, this is an amazing photo, I'm just wondering why you chose to do it for THIS challenge.

I love the lighting, the tone on it, it could come straight from a Film Noir pic even though it's got a more hopeful feel to it than that.

The only thing that looks even vaguely out of place is the fan -- was that style of fan really around in the 40s?