Cheesy and Crunchy - Orange on Blue
by StevePax

Comment:
Crunchy orange worms, my favorite snack!

Nice. Very home-entertainment-magaziney, I could picture it as an ad (I like good commercial work, so this is a compliment). Or accompanying an article on, I don't know, the evil of overly processed cheese. And very definitely topical.

The Cosmic Vase at Sunrise :)
by ursula

Comment:
Okay, you hit the topical requirement, but I'm afraid the actual composition hurts my eyes.

Uh-Oh...
by GeneralE

Comment:
Test if your commenters are colour blind! Ask them about the numbers.

What a terrific way to do this. The contrast between the complementary colours is low but in this case that's just exactly right.

Tomato On The Vine
by STEINR

Comment:
Yummy tomatoes, but I think the contrast between the colour complements would have been highlighted better by tomatoes actually on a vine. The green seems a bit washed out and not as obvious as one might want for this topic.

Glow!
by paganini

Comment:
It's nice to see several pairings of complementary colours in this: the focal point, of course, with the light against the water, but also the orangey tone to the lights around the fountain, the yellow-and-blue sky, and the yellow-lit building against the sky. Plus it's a nice twilight shot of a fountain.

Mask parade
by Anastasia

Comment:
This works. You have the orange/blue contrast and the black/white one, and the staging of the scene does not scream "Hi! I'm a big staged scene for the sake of a contest!" as I can imagine someone leaving a couple carelessly piled masks in that way.

Phlox
by Gordon

Comment:
The front focal blur rather eye-drawing, which works in the sense that it draws you more to the red/green contrast but does sort of take away from any focus on the bug.

Natures Purple, Man's Yellow
by K-Rob

Comment:
Wow this is a very cool picture -- I always have the worst luck trying to capture lightning and so I always appreciate good shots of it -- I think in terms of hitting the depiction of the complementary colours it falls a bit short. Too much of the photo is taken up by the clouds and sky, which add nothing to the point.

Complimentary Jacks Away
by RLS

Comment:
Heh, cute. Very good choice of colour, though the cloudy background is kinda strange looking.

Window peep
by Robro

Comment:
I have never understood until now why people paint their houses that shade of blue. It's to give photographers a way to enter good pictures into these contests! That's a terrific example of complementary colours, almost precisely as contrasty as they get (I know purple is traditionally considered the complement of yellow, but that blue is actually closer to what I tend to picture it as).