Aeroarsonphobia - Fear of breathing fire
by stare_at_the_sun

Comment:
Nicely done; the slight misalignment between the source of the flame and the mouth is somewhat distracting. The photo would be more emotive if the model's eyes weren't half closed.

Thantophobia - fear of dying
by petrakka

Comment:
I like the image, but somehow the fence seems to detract from the image overall. The dead grass along the fence line does a nice job of grounding the tree.

Alliumphobia
by snapz

Comment:
Your image unambiguously defines the named phobia (unlike a lot of the other entries), but somehow the image doesn't strike me as noteworthy. There's nothing wrong with it, it's just not particularly interesting.

Frosty space From Cold
by unknowndeath

Comment:
I like the left half of the image, but I don't see any strong connection to the challenge topic. The image grain is a nice touch.

Electric Shock
by Glou

Comment:
The idea is great, but I think that the presentation would have been stronger if you'd have not blown out quite so many of the features.

Rhytiphobia- Fear of getting wrinkles.
by popsicle

Comment:
If wrinkles are the focal point then cropping to include only the woman's hands or face would have been more effective. As it is her busy shirt, the stitches in her knee, the knife, and the other incidental details cloud your message.

fear of torture
by dippydaz

Comment:
The message-bearing portion of this image occupies relatively little area in this image. I think that your composition would get more bang for it's buck if you made the presentation more minimalistic (showing 13 fingers seems excessive). Since the message is less than happy using a darker background would have helped to create the appropriate atmosphere. Showing simply one finger with the blade poised to ram under the fingernail would have been a more concise way to convey the same idea.

Claustrophobia
by Robot-Fotomat

Comment:
Interesting take on the challenge. I like the eyes peering out of the larger matreshka (sp?) doll. The upper half in the foreground helps to clarify what the focal point is; without this it would have taken me longer to identify what I was looking at. The overlap between the doll in the foreground and the one in the back feels somewhat claustrophobic. This may or may not be intentional, but moving the foreground doll to the right would reduce the effect. The pure white background seems a little overbearing; I would have preferred a light shade of grey.

Hard at Work - No Bibliophobia
by alexus1325

Comment:
This feels like a snapshot. Correcting the tilted horizon would help to reduce this impression somewhat.

Coimetrophobia- Fear of Cemeteries
by ShotMD

Comment:
This image is pretty evenly divided between the sky and the foreground. I think that the composition would have been stronger if there was more emphasis on one or the other. Given the subject the colors are rather bright and cheery, but not enough to make it feel like an intentional contrast. I'd suggest adding some image grain and dropping the saturation a bit or trying to make the contrast between the happy colors and the sad subject feel more intentional.

The fact that the epitaph is legible on at least the first few tombstones ties the cometary to someplace in the southern U.S. Since the details about this particular cometary aren't relevant to your message about cemeteries in general, you might want to consider obscuring the locale specific details somehow (a wider angle shot, etc.).