Swanset
by lamedos

Comment:
10... Wonderful shot...

My Six Kids
by sjgleah

Comment:
Fantastic use of symmetry and parallel lines; the composition is first class. The post the young lady is leaning on and other two visible behind her add balance to the shot. Great shooting (8)

Ghostlight
by ninauller

Comment:
This is so close to perfection it hurtsâ€Â¦ If you were to have cropped out the colour banding at the top of the picture, I think this would have been awesome. For me, the reflected colour bands pull the eye away from the main subject, and it's then that the whole shot becomes an obvious reflection. Ghost light is superb idea; ghost ceiling doesn't work. I put my hand across those bands and wow, what a difference. Sorry, (7)

Tree n Lilipads
by timj351

Comment:
I love the how the shot blends from the reflection to the non-reflection totally seamlessly. It makes the shot look as though the Lilly pads have taken flightâ€Â¦ Great shooting (10)

Alfa Weather
by cameo

Comment:
Works well enoughâ€Â¦ But the red is a little over powering for my liking.

First Submission
by jlr

Comment:
I really like the use of colour in the shot and the unfathomable reflection in the bulb works really well. Composition is great and the feeling of atrophy flows from the image. The dramatic dullness adds to the feeling of the inevitability of decayâ€Â¦ Depressing, but it works photographicallyâ€Â¦ (9)

Bands of Gold
by Jak

Comment:
Wonderful. The symmetry works superbly, I love it – the icing on the cake is the complete diversification from the symmetrical in top left thirds quadrantâ€Â¦ Whether this is just how it was, or you consciously picked the shot for that reason is perhaps a question worth asking, but that's fairly irrelevant – it's superb anyway. (10)

kaleidoscopic
by KAOS

Comment:
Weird, the symmetry works quite well to a point. The shot is almost entirely made up of dramatic diagonals with the exception of the bottom right third area, where there is an area of parallels. This adds an element of unwanted conflict – in my opinion – that draws the eye away from the overall effect of the patterns. For me, the effect damages the shot at a subliminal level - this may also make others vote it down but be unsure why they didn't like the shotâ€Â¦ The idea itself is solid, but the outcome is somewhat uncontrollableâ€Â¦ (4)

Flying on the pond
by Chusca

Comment:
This shot gets me all of the wrong reasons. I like the shot a lot, and those flocking birds look great, but I'd have cropped them out of the skyline. The wheel hub and the coloured pieces of rubbish really distract from the primary subject, but they are so stark against the rest of the shot it works. If this were a shot of those items, and not the reflection, it would have been perfect. I like the shot a lot, but, like a say, perhaps for the wrong reasonsâ€Â¦ (8)

Entertainment Tonight
by floyd

Comment:
Terrific shotâ€Â¦ I love the concept and you've pulled it off really wellâ€Â¦ (10)