Broken car, spine and clavicle - An exercise in extraction
by kremkex

Comment:
This is one picture I really wish I hadn't entered. When I submitted it, I thought that it would be evident from the title that it was taken during an exercise and with hindsight, "Firebrigade on exercise" would have been a better title. The comments show however that I was mistaken and that many believed it to have been taken at the site of an actual accident.

To those who were hurt by my photo or offended by it, I apologize. It was not my intention.

Leaving a trail of broken hearts
by dsa157

Comment:
This is a good idea, but I think you need to play with it a lttle bit more. I see three problems with this picture, but the good news is that they are all easy to fix.

The first one is the spec on the left side of the picture. The rules allow for cloning it awy so that is easy to fix.

The second problem is that the red colour looks dirty, at least on my monitor. My guess would be that it is the result of to much compression. The picture is only 68kb, so if that is the problem, saving at a higher quality setting should take care of it. There is a tutorial on this that you might want to look at.

The third thing is that the shadows look somehow unnatural to me. Perhaps it is some kind of symbolism that you were aming for, but to me they are distracting. I think you could probably get rid of them by redesigning the lighting, perhaps softening it and moving it higher.

In reading this, you should have in mind that I am no expert photographer, just a bloke who likes to take photos. I just read my commentes above, and they might sound like I'm tearing your photo to pieces, but that is not what I am trying to express. It's not a bad photo actually, I just think it could be better with minimal tweaking.

Abandoned
by joebok

Comment:
I like it. The black and whithe high contrast makes it look broken and creepy.

Ouch, no serviceable parts inside!
by graphicfunk

Comment:
Good idea, well executed.

~Mirage~
by tmilob

Comment:
I like this one. There is a feeling of surrealism to it and reading the word "broken" from the bottom up only adds to it. I only wish there was something in the upper corners to make it more balanced. If you don't have any melting clocks handy, then perhaphs a goldfish to the left and a cabbage to the right?