Beaver Lake
by ellamay

Comment:
Everyone will say Monet, I guess. It's a beautiful image for several reasons, but in particular it's a very impressive and instructive study of the effect of light on different surfaces and textures. 8.

Star light, star bright
by Gordon

Comment:
This is ALL about light. The architecture, the composition, the camera and the processing. I've seen a photograph of this dome before, not looking quite so pale. So I'll be interested in the comments of that photographer (if it ain't you, of course). 8

light music
by ursula

Comment:
A very beautiful, sensuous photograph. Elegantly composed and well executed. And of course the lighting is striking; it's the reason that this image works. Challenge well met. 9

Light Form
by breckinshire

Comment:
Great image. It looks like a certain mushroom I've seen, so it's either a terrific photograph, or it's a terrific photograph AND a nice tribute. 9

Autumn of Grandeur
by insteps

Comment:
Henry, I've come back to this several times since the challenge ended, to see if my first impressions would last. They did. It is a very sympathetic examination of these beautiful steps. True, it might have been rotated a couple of degrees clockwise (maybe), although I can't agree that there should be less foreground. But all that's irrelevant nit-picking; it is actually a superb photograph with pretty much perfect tonal values, and a composition so good and yet so subtle that you don't notice it. Like many memorable things in life, it's even better than it seemed at first glance.

The Stalker
by aznym

Comment:
Often post-challenge commentators will note with astonishment the handful of voters who scored an image as a 1 or 2. But in the case of this adventurous work, a number of such scores has to be inevitable; and if they truly hated it, well OK, they've got to go low. But what I can't understand here is the great mass of voters scoring it in the 4 to 6 range. Almost 60% of all votes! How so many people can simply be indifferent to this image is beyond belief. You must either love this, or you loathe it ... anything in between is just intellectual sloth.

Door with Reflection
by Rgarcia

Comment:
Well, Roberto, it was underrated as I expected it would be. However, I'm sure you were prepared for that. Thanks for this subtle and artistic image.

Time Pressure
by e301

Comment:
Ed ... I must admit I missed the significance of the clocks as faces. Very clever and subtle allusion; I had been thinking more along the lines of "faceless slaves to time" as your motivation here. Alas, you'll have to settle for the "thinking man's blue ribbon".

The knitter
by heida

Comment:
Well I guess you won't know who Spike Milligan is (was). Surrealist British comic genius who would have loved the masked knitter. Once, when he lost his dog, he put an advertisement in the local paper ... all it said was; "Here boy!"

faceless not faithless
by whiteroom

Comment:
I agree with JPR ... very few images of this level of artistic merit appeal to DPC voters (and so; it totally friggin rocks).