Breakfast of Champions
by jpeters

Comment:
"sex sells"

the man's naked torso detracts from the focus of the photograph, the coffee pot.
plus, it's not light out at 4 or 5 AM, and that lighting suggests light coming through a window. also, the isolated subject thing isn't a good thing, it makes it look unnatural and commercial, and this shot would be a lot better in the context of a kitchen or something.

4:00AM - Go and WIN the race...
by cubix

Comment:
I just plain don't like it. What difference does it make if you take a picture of a lego technic car at 4 AM or at noon? It's still a lego car. Legos are sweet as hell, but most photographs of legos look like lego advertisements. Theyre good to play with, not to photograph.

Still setting up the shot
by ZorbaTheGeek

Comment:
it's a nice image but i don't think it fits with the circumstance "too early" very well.

Too late for scrambled eggs
by aleguga

Comment:
i really don't think it is too late for scrambled eggs...

Who!!!! Says Its Too Late!!
by cheegirl

Comment:
WHAT AN INCOMPREHENSIBLY LOUSY TITLE OH JEEZ LAME

________
by TheLittleIsland

Comment:
The yellow lighting was actually accentuated in photoshop A LOT. I wanted the shot to look a little soft.... The dollar sign was something that I could not move, though I hardly think it's as distracting as you make it out to be. I think the eye heads right for the subject on the left due to the halo around his head that I planned out. Also... it's supposed to be ODD so you wouldn't want a smooth nice photo without distractions.

New breed of Ribboners
by patrinus

Comment:
"How Cute!"

I beg to differ. It's not that I don't like babies. I just believe this image falls quite short of a new concept.

Message edited by author 2005-12-15 16:43:09.

Eye for Colours
by librodo

Comment:
FOR petdog4020:
- from the challenge description -
Details: Stamps, coins, dolls, cars, shoes... people will collect just about anything. Let's see what makes your particular collection special.

For others:
I thought the "kid" comment was foolish. To assume that only people under the age of say... 25 are capable of making "immature" comments or having poorly rated images, is to be a fool. Furthermore, it is a fool who condescends, especially those younger than him/herself. The 18 year old mind and the 40 year old mind are equally capable of and likely to be immature, if in different ways.

I happen to have lived in a house with a colored pencil "collection" anyhow, and it looks nothing like the neat, orderly image I see above. Where, I ask, are the broken pencils? The extremely short ones? Why are they all sharpened? The image above resembles that of a Crayola advertisement.

My previous post was an angry attempt to challenge the voters to think about the images they are voting for. Much of the photography I see winning ribbons is not creative photography, but neat, crisp, overtly dull, sleek sleazy commercial photography.

In my opinion, photography is a form of art. Art is a medium that in order to remain art, should be dynamic and constantly changing. I see little progression on this site, and it is frustrating. Many of the shots that win are not rewarded for creativity but for sleekness. Perhaps my photographic and artistic eye is not agreeably developed, but I am fairly certain that I have seen a number of water droplet shots winning prizes consistently. Water droplet shots? Taking no particular form, with no interesting title, such images I dub "blank images."

I do not claim to be much better than any of this... I repeatedly enter images that are less than impressive to my own eye, and are confirmed as such by voters. However, I think it's interesting that with the image I entered specifically because I knew it was bland and stereotypical, I received my highest score.

so... boo hiss.

PS: STOP OPPRESSING THE USE OF HARSH LANGUAGE. HARSH LANGUAGE IS AN INEVITABILITY THAT EVERYONE SHOULD LEARN TO DEAL WITH, AND IS SIMULTANEOUSLY AN EXPRESSIVE FORM OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE. WHERE WOULD HEMMINGWAY BE IF HE WEREN'T AN OFFENSIVE SUNNUVABICTH? STICKS AND STONES...

I AM AWARE OF THE IDEALISTIC NATURE OF THE ABOVE TEXT, AND ENJOY IT AS SUCH. I AM NOT, HOWEVER, AN IDEALISTIC PERSON.

Insemination
by GolferDDS

Comment:
biologically accurate

Just Forks, No Knives or Spoons.
by JEFFJSB

Comment:
lousy title, boring, uninteresting, bland