Death at the Lake
by sher

Comment:
I'm really impressed by the depth of the textures in your image. They reflect they gravity of your subject well, so does the B&W conversion.

Pasadena Chalk Fest 3
by pidge

Comment:
An interesting perspective which gives a look behind the scenes of the chalk painting. A slightly higher point of view would have emphasized the pile of chalk and taken the leg out of the center of the composition.

Nightime Travels
by pidge

Comment:
You did a good job in portraying the speed and business of City Life. The trails are cool because they are so long, only few of them are 'chopped off'. The highlights look really good, but the rest of the scene might have been a bit brighter.

Fiery Profile
by magnus

Comment:
The backlit sitoutaion works well here. The contrast between the black silhouette and the fire as a source of light, trying to reach the face, is quite impressive. The shallow DOF is good as well.

March of the Penguins
by magnus

Comment:
I see you mention Teger, in fact I was reminded of his work when I saw this image. You gave it a nice twist with the penguins. It might have worked better however, with a deeper DOF, it would have given the impression of a smaller scale, less like a macro.

This Old House
by SDW

Comment:
Lovely tones here. The brown really conveys a sense of decay and isolation. The house looks as abandoned as it could be. I like how it merges, in a way, with its surroundings, nature is again taking control of this place.
The poem is also nice to read, it goes well with the image.

Toys for Big Boys
by SDW

Comment:
This is cool, in the thumbnail it looked as if this was a real big monster tuck. Maybe I wouldn't even have noticed with a deeper DFO and without the antenna. The turbulent sand gives your image a nice action touch.

Negative Rose
by SDW

Comment:
That's a cool approach to flower photography. Maybe your image would have profited - like the common rose photographs - from a softer focus? The violet border doesn't seem to work here: the colours in the rose are not strong enough to support the use of a coloured border.

Stacked
by SDW

Comment:
A nice variation of a common theme. I like the use of reflections here, also the texture inside the pipes are nice to look at. It's also interesting to see how some elements stand out a bit more than others and form a pattern inside the pattern. The 'sepia' gives your image the final touch.

Rays of Love
by SDW

Comment:
This truly is an impressive capture, to say the least. The vastenss of the sky is incredible. The perspective suggests that the people buried here went straight "up" to heaven, into that magnificient relam of patterns and shapes, which you revealed in your excellent B&W conversion. I also like how you managed to use the elements present to create a kind of natural vignette around the scene, framing the elements and keeping the composition together.