Greetings from the Critique Club!
I can see you took the description of the challenge to heart, and did a wonderful job of capturing lines and circles in the technical sense. Great lighting, I love the b/w conversion cause then colour does not distract you. I think the main problem here is, too much of a good thing...the pattern is quite random and the image large, so the eye roves looking for a focal point, and there isn't one.
If, however, you crop in a bit to the middle third, you can see the bars emerging as leading lines leading up to the bursts of circles. The ridged floor upon which the circles fall means that you could crop in really close, with perhaps just one bar of shadow, and use that as a focal point and let the circles on either side dance around like fizzy bubbles around a swizzle stick :-)
hope this helps, please keep shooting and entering!
Susan |