Aotearoa - Land of the long white cloud
by michelR

Comment by Abra:
Lovely photo that sacrafices the normal subject to emphasise the clouds. Well done. 7.

A few hours ago the second blast occured at the mine and assuming you're a New Zealander, my heart goes out to your country. The loss of the 29 miners is a tragedy that is felt here in Australia as I'm sure around the world.

Alone Together
by michelR

Comment by posthumous:
beautiful street portrait

This photo has been installed in my Galerie Nulle Part

Alone Together
by michelR

Comment by jagar:
This tells a story, and the title is perfect, i like.

Deliberate oversight
by michelR

Comment by franktheyank:
Excellent street photography. I'm torn a bit by how dark the homeless man is. But the mood of him fading into the background sets a tone for his hopeless condition.

Alone Together
by michelR

Comment by FourPointX:
nice candid i like the title and the processing 6

Deliberate oversight
by michelR

Comment by Jutilda:
Juxtaposition - perfection!

Regrowth
by michelR

Comment by Bugzeye:
haha cute, A little baby pot plant. This photo is not too shabby. Nice focus and lighting. But as Nuzzer pointed out, The challenge theme was not apparent enough for the voters to score it well. You have to be totally obvious for some of them to actually get the meaning of a picture. Nice work.

Regrowth
by michelR

Comment by michelR:
Thanks for the feedback, really helpful. Just to clear things up, nothing in this photo is set, its just as i found it, same with the editing, only slightly adjusted the contrast. Il do my best to make the purpose of my photographs a little more clear in the future =). cheers

Regrowth
by michelR

Comment by Nuzzer:
Greetings from the Critique Club.

First impressions are that this is a moody shot that contrasts a new plant with some rubbish well.

Technically this is good. The plant is nicely exposed and the composition is good to allow us to compare the two items - a little centered vertically perhaps.The DOF is very shallow and this doesn't let us see much detail in the spray can (I didn't realise that's what this was until I read your notes - I thought it was a coke can or something)

Artistically this rocks! I love these moody shots and now that I know this is a spray can this tells a great story.

In summary the inability for voters to see the link with graffiti killed the score on this shot. If you could have arranged the can so that we could read that it was a spray can then I'm sure this would have done well.

Feel free to PM me if you have any queries.
Gerry

Regrowth
by michelR

Comment by BeckyT:
I think it is an awesome photo. Love the perspective and the tones. Definately didn't deserve to be in the 4s. But as you said it didn't really meet the challenge. Still nicely done.