Archway
by timmi

Comment:
I love the lines nad patterns this creates. Amazing (to me, anyway) that the sky doesn't wash out the foreground, but the lighting is nicely controlled.

Fire Truck Pump Gauges
by barahoo

Comment:
Wow - that's quite an impressive array of gear - almost dizzying to look at, really. This is a good crisp shot and an interesting subject; I just wish I had somewhere to rest my eyes in it, fewer items to look at at once.

organic
by sanandan

Comment:
That's a nice vivid color, and I like the shapes - but I really wish the whole of the flower were in focus; instead, the pieces that don't curl up toward the camera are blurry, but it's hard to take part of the subject as "background" and part as "foreground"....

Winning Hand
by boyte1

Comment:
Overall a very nice photo, though I think it could have been better. The reflection on the spade in the bottom center is a bit distracting - and the 9 of diamonds breaks the composition a little, looks enough like it belongs to draw the eye; I think it might have worked better with a spade or club there.

Neighbors
by kyrielle

Comment:
I will add on this one that the composition I wanted was impossible. I tried a horizontal composition and it looked pretty awful. I'd have liked to get the white building more prominent by shooting from closer in and closer to the ground. However, I would have had to trespass on private property and stand in a marshy area I could smell all the way to where I did take the picture from...I wasn't feeling quite that dedicated, I fear.

California Reflections
by byetko

Comment:
Absolutely gorgeous - the reflections, the light, the wheel's motion - this is stunning.

Rush and Recess
by zeuszen

Comment:
I liked this one okay but felt that it could have been stronger, also. The curving lines of the ocean are nice, the placement of the subject is nice. But the bright reflection in the sunglasses suggests it is daylight and the overall darkness of the photo otherwise looks like dusk - and the tones look somewhat out of true. I'd have liked to see this brightened a bit.

Green in Front - a Meditation
by Starbright1973

Comment:
This is interesting, but no strong sense of temperature here - are these candles? I'm not sure. The glares of light would seem to perhaps come from flames, but they're bright enough to have washed out the adjacent areas if so. I can't make out the forms clearly.

Most of all, I wish this had been larger - it would be nice to see more of the details.

frozen bottles
by jbruno1397

Comment:
This is a nice idea - and the reflections would be cool - but I can't really tell these are frozen. The image seems to have a very heavy grain/speckling going on, so that the bottles and their reflections are marked by spots of color that don't make sense to me. I'm not sure if there was something colored in the bottles, or if this was a low-light or low-resolution photo that just didn't have enough information to make a picture this size. I'd like to see what it would look like without that.

Cookin' on Gas
by Imagineer

Comment:
The focus is cooking on gas - but rather than either the food or the burner being the focus, it looks like the spatula and far side of the pan are. The light glare off the near side of the pan is also a bit distracting. This is a nice composition - I'd have liked to see it with a different focus. The way the steam is captured is very nice.