Waiting for the Tide
by agwright

Comment:
I like the lines in this image. It seems a bit subdued to me, perhaps a polarizer was used? I like the fact that you can tell its a sunny day but the whites are not going crazy and there is some nice details on the boats still visible. The sky looks interesting and organic, it is a nice foil for the more rigid shapes of the boat masts too. I think I might like this even better if the blue was just a shade deeper/darker, as it is I did give it a 7

Go Green!
by Rompy

Comment:
I like the movement and freshness of this image. The lighting is a bit bright with the white of those bikemobiles but luckily I don't think it harms the image at all. I'm enjoying the engaging street scene, nice and urban but fun with your capture. I also like how it looks tilted. Typically I would not like an non-uniform border but in this case I like how it gives it a letterbox(is that the right word?) format almost as if I'm watching a widescreen movie. The focus is good though I wish I could see the faces of the drivers. I gave a 7

Well Worn Transportation
by walrus451

Comment:
Wonderful clarity here. The rich colors are wonderful. You've made what could have been a boring, flat photo of some sandals into something worth investing more than a few seconds looking at. I love the richness of the various brown shades. The background looks more brown than black to me too so that's a nice difference as well. The composition is interesting, nice and simple yet allows the shoes to show off their details nicely. Definitely fits the challenge in my estimation. Well done. 8

Steam Loco - Diana
by train

Comment:
Absolutely beautiful. I love the richness of the black, the white is not too bright as to overwhelm, instead it offsets the deep black perfectly. The composition is great, excellent focus, just a great image all around. I kind of wish there was some sort of more substantial border just to make it have that finished/framed look, but that's just gravy. Nicely captured. I am upping from an 8 to a 9 and adding a favorite.

Slowly But Surely
by captbender

Comment:
Excellent capture. The focus is nice the natural light is a bit harsh and I wish there were a little more contrast depth but I love the ambience of the image and how 1940's it looks to me. I immediately was drawn into the photo and made a connection and that always overrules any issues I see in the technical department. Great idea, fits the challenge well, really made a connection so I gave an 8

Out to sea
by bogus

Comment:
Great idea, definitely meets the challenge. I like the long negative space but I don't like the colors. It feels very very drab and boring.. like a painting that hasn't been cleaned in many years. The focus is a bit soft but I find that it works for the most part. The low light is both a blessing and a curse in my mind as its affecting the colors (adversely imo) and yet its giving a softness to the image that is appealing. Still over all I found myself not too enamoured with the overlying effect so I gave a 4

Nice ride, kid!
by abroken1

Comment:
I think this is a cute idea and you've got some great technical aspects to it. Focus looks wonderful to me, use of natural light looks great too. My biggest fuss is with the composition though. With the title, I'm thinking the image needs a bit more of an ambience for the background - something that ties it even more firmly to a kid but also to a kid acting as though it were truly their 'wheels'. Thus, I'm thinking a background with a jungle gym or sandbox would further the story by highlighting just where a kid might roll. That said, the current background is far from horrible, it does work here but the overall effect for me is "oh a kids toy in a backyard" as nothing is here to energize my imagination. I gave a 4

Piggy Back Ride
by itsselv

Comment:
Nice capture of light trails but I'm not sure why that and the piggy back are being composed together. The two could make fine subjects separately but here together I find they instead distract from one another - the trails pull the eye away from the piggy back, the piggy back do the same - and all to the detriment of the image. The title indicates the subject is the piggy back ride, so to me that should be the subject. Perhaps a change in position would have provided a better background or at least one less distracting. The focus looks good and use of light (flash?) works here. I gave a 4

Classic Iron
by moondogmt

Comment:
Good use of the light, focus looks good too. Not so crazy about the composition. I am not seeing what you may have seen here, as its just a bit of a car that isn't keeping my attention. I don't know if zooming in on just one aspect of the car would help or not. By that I mean just the grill or just the headlight. I do like the color and how it plays off of the chrome on the car but it just doesn't spark much interest in me. I gave a 4

our own tootsies
by ladyanni

Comment:
Meets the challenge, though I wish more was done with the feet to convey their use in transporting people. The lighting is okay though a bit bright. Color looks nice, focus is good. Unfortunately, there's nothing more here for me as a viewer than 3 flipflop shod feet. I'm not sure what would make the image more interesting to me.. perhaps a different composition, the feet stacked horizontally one on top of another.. maybe if this was in b&w with some higher than normal contrasts.. I'm not sure. Overall it just seems a bit boring and doesn't draw me in, so I gave a 4