Is this what we call progress?
by willhadl

Comment:
I can almost feel the heat in this scene. The choice of viewpoint is excellent, I like the shallow depth of field and the way the background focus has been handled.

Log Raft to Modern Yacht
by GIS_boy

Comment:
This is my favourite picture in the challenge.
Gorgeous lighting and colours. The busy skyline with all those masts contrasts nicely with the subtle ripples of the reflections in the fore"ground". 10, of course.

1980s big Progress
by FocusPoint

Comment:
That's not progress, that's change ;)
(I said this about another entry!)
Nice work though. 7.

Changing of the Guard
by landcamera

Comment:
That's not progress, it's change ;)

Summer Progress
by Nigel

Comment:
Love the composition, content and lighting. Hate the selective desaturation, sorry. This would have been a 9 in colour or black and white.

The Results
by amandalore

Comment:
I gave you a 10 for the picture. The harsh lighting, the blue of the towel, the position on the pan :) and the way your head and hands are held really did give an impression of disappointment or despair.

Blues Brother
by jimness

Comment:
I gave this an 8. It would have been a 10 but I really don't like selective desaturation.

Great subject, composition, lighting and tones. Get rid of the horrible blue and this (in my opinion) would be a fabulous picture.

Totally In Distress
by Kita

Comment:
I think the model's distressed because she's not going to beat her daughter in a challenge again :)

Very nice work. I could read into this that the bright colours of the clothing and the landscape represent what is wonderful in the world and then the fact that there is no direct light on the model and the landscape represents the despair, the disappearance or subdual of the light or hope. But maybe I'm just making all that up...

Holy n*n
by birgir

Comment:
You obviously upset the bigoted cultists ;)

I gave you a 7. I did knock a point or two off portraits if they didn't depict a place...

Shrine of the Porcelain God
by fluxn

Comment:
I gave you an 8 for this picture. Anyone who voted you down for the subject matter should lighten up .... a lot!