Takin' a Breather!
by cheekymunky

Comment:
The catchlight in the eyes really adds to the image.

Get me out of here...
by papasmurf

Comment:
This person looks sincerely bored. From a technical perspective the picture lacks interest (even to the extent that images with this theme can be interesting). This shot looks like something which anyone with a point and shoot camera could capture dozens of times per day with little effort. There's nothing about it which suggests any real planning or skill in execution. If some of the clutter on the desk were cropped out this would make a decent (though boring) candid.

Hangin' Around
by dahkota

Comment:
This panda looks happy and lazy, not bored. This is a good stock picture of a panda, but it doesn't meet the challenge.

"No mice, no birds...boring"
by dragonlady

Comment:
This cat looks annoyed and sleepy, not bored.

Cat Nap
by tristalisk

Comment:
I don't see boredom here. Laziness? Definitely. Fatigue? Yes. Boredom? No. The photo is good from a technical standpoint (good focus, reasonable exposure of the black cat, etc.), but there's little here to separate this image from the dozens of other zoo/house pet pictures.

Entropy, Entropy...No Escaping This for Me
by mamaesme

Comment:
Doing dishes may be boring, but this picture doesn't depict boredom. The scene is rather cluttered, which typically is a bad thing in a photograph.

White
by JosephDavid

Comment:
I can't figure out how this is supposed to portray boredom. Is the whiteboard bored? The pens? That paperclip, perhaps? The items depicted are rather common / boring and don't offer any real interest.

On the technical / execution side: The picture, the camera, or both were slightly off-horizontal when this was taken, so the writing surface appears to be higher off the ground on the right side than the left. Normally I wouldn't consider this a flaw, but when the shot is as minimalistic as this, every little detail counts. The focus is a little bit soft and the brightness &/or contrast could use a boost. I'm guessing that you trusted the camera's meter to get the correct exposure for this scene. When shooting something against a solid color like this, consider the meter a rough guess at best. One of the assumptions that all digital cameras (and film development machines, for that matter) make is that if all of the colors and brightness levels in the scene are averaged, the result will be a solid grey image (this is called the "grey world assumption"). In practice what this means is that if you set your camera to fully automatic mode and take two pictures, one of a solid black wall and one of a solid white wall, both of pictures will appear to be of the same solid grey wall. Because your picture consisted largely of a solid white surface, your camera adjusted the brightness level down toward grey.

slide show - zzzzzzzzz
by byoung

Comment:
This was one of only two images in the challenge that made me laugh. Nicely done. Did you try any pictures with the old guy in the background holding the CD toward the camera with an excited look on his face?

Panhandling on a quiet street
by Shaman

Comment:
I would have titled this "Santa during the off season".

The stuff in the windows is a bit distracting; you may want to try a shallower DOF.

Got eggs?
by MAK

Comment:
I wonder how my boss would take it if I requested that our next team outing involve a pillory.