liquid glass
by adine

Comment:
Highly original, fine colours, excellent composition, a very painting-like shot. I'm curious to know what the object looks like in a more "neutral" shot. An absolute favourite of mine, 9.

Blue shadow
by johnphawkins

Comment:
Wonderful photograph. I think I'd even like it better if the edge of the screen on the left were cropped off.

Let's cross the river guys
by vcosma

Comment:

Originally posted by vcosma: Let's see what the dictionary says: trans·por·ta·tion The act or an instance of transporting. The state of being transported. A means of conveyance. The business of conveying passengers or goods. A charge for public conveyance; fare. Deportation to a penal colony. As you see, Gerrit, the word "transportation", in English, stands for far more things than you think, but this can be understandable since your mother tongue isn't English. Hence I believe that it would have suited this theme pictures like: a person carrying a load (the act of transporting); someone who is daydreaming (is "transported"); the river transporting the ducks and of course means of transportation but this is so obvious.

I'm aware that English is not my mother tongue, and so to be on the safe side I looked the word up at www.dictionary.com. My comment is based on the definitions I found there. "Transportation" as in "rapture" is really stretching things, it's farfetched. (Besides, I don't see any signs of rapture in the pic.) I don't see any means of transportation either, unless the mother duck were to carry the little ones on her back. I don't recognize any of the 6 definitions you quote in this photograph, and quite a few native speakers of English seem to agree with that view.

Message edited by author 2003-05-07 06:48:34.

Let's cross the river guys
by vcosma

Comment:
It's a good photo, but I rated it rather low because I think it doesn't fit the subject. Transportation either requires a vehicle, or some track, or both. Even if the ducks had been swimming, it wouldn't be transportation. This is why we don't see moving flocks, herds, shoals, etc. in this contest.

MANS LAST RIDE
by draney4

Comment:
This is way off subject, I'm afraid. In the title it says "ride", but in the picture there's no ride, at best there's a destination reached a long time ago.

Funicular Tramway
by Mitonski

Comment:
This is one of the two photos that I rated highest, a 9. It has many good qualities, but the most gripping is the sense of spatial depth it conveys.

water under the bridge
by ellamay

Comment:
This is one of the two photos that I rated highest, a 9. The colours and the texture of the water are great, and it's very interesting to see how the various wave patterns propagate.