Praise the bridge that carried you over
by CocoCoco

Comment by smudgeSMJ:
Great angle and composition!

Praise the bridge that carried you over
by CocoCoco

Comment by BrennanOB:
Great heft and drama with perhaps a bit too much contrast. The underside of the bridge and the buildings could have used some more middle grays. Top 5

Praise the bridge that carried you over
by CocoCoco

Comment by caba:
Should do well, top 5

Praise the bridge that carried you over
by CocoCoco

Comment by Pangurban:
I like that this is in B&W.

Namastè
by CocoCoco

Comment by Neat:
That is one serious scar, and look on his face, bumping up.

Namastè
by CocoCoco

Comment by VBW:
I'm not a fan of selective desat, but putting that aside while grading today. Instead, I'm grading overall composition and whether i feel like the item that is colored draws my interest or if i feel like it pulls my interest away from something else that i find more personally meaningful in the picture.

Let me say first that i love this shot- hate the selective desat.

The boy's posture, gesture and that look! What a photograph. That scar- it all draws me in. The boys in the background are a bit distracting. But that is a big nit pick- as I didn't even notice them till I started to study the picture further and thought to look to see what the background was. Even now, knowing they are there, my eyes are drawn back to the boy.

Overall I think this would work much better as a full b/w. I find myself wondering what the color of his clothing is suppose to mean/ represent and My only guess is that perhaps it is the color an order of monks wears.

So i'm not fond of that being highlighted, as I think I could have hazard a guess that he was a monk without any color in the shot. And, unfortunately, the color is a bit distracting in this shot. Would love to see this worked as a full b/w.

Namastè
by CocoCoco

Comment by Mike:
ok

Greener than green
by CocoCoco

Comment by VBW:
What I like:
- Vibrant colors.

What I don't like:
- The horizon is in the center of the frame- making for competing subjects

Overall:
- I'm not a big landscape person, so take this review with a grain of salt. But I find the sky more dynamic and interesting than the land and wish the camera had been pointed a bit more up. That, of course, would lesson the adherence to the theme. With the lines formed from the grass running up the building- I wonder if this would have been a bit more dynamic (for the land) if the photographer had turned more towards 2 o'clock- allowing the lines in the grass to flow towards the building more directly- and chop out more of the sky.