written in sand
by posthumous

Comment:
Posthumous - This is a pretty abstract shot. It's difficult to tell exactly what I'm supposed to be seeing, even after reading the description. Its difficult to determine how far away you were when you took the shot. The first thing that came to mind when I saw the shot was, "What is it?" And there's not enough to really grab my interest. It looks like the 1/15 sec exposure still gave you a bit of camera shake. It makes it not perfectly clear and although I don't think its a huge drawback to the photo overall, the voters tend to hate that. I didn't vote in this challenge, but I think I would have voted along the lines of the masses on this one. I wish you would have made the lines in the picture more of the focus of it.

So bottom line for me is I really don't get it. I don't see any relevance to the challenge looking at only the picture. Sorry. I guess you can't please all of the people all of the time. - Bob

Shadow Definition (of Field)
by tfarrell23

Comment:
I gave this a 5 originally but I'm changing my mind... I must've been sleepy this morning. 8

Ode to Deb
by mpeters

Comment:
I think I would've tried framing this one a bit differently. Maybe a portrait crop with the bottom of the handrail in the corner of the shot. Great idea, There is a ton of potential with this subject. 7

Winter Solstice
by digifotojo

Comment:
Forget the challenge on this one, go for the icy trees shot. the shadow of the tree is not isolated enough to make it effective. If you had a single tree on a large flat plane, that's a different story

a glass and its shadow waiting to be filled
by bobcc

Comment:
unusual white and black specks on the glass. Not sure its that distracting, but its sure not helping. An okay photo -5

Nature's Finger Print
by subject22

Comment:
Textures are one of my favorite things. This is really nice. 9

Shadows in the Sky
by balancedfox

Comment:
wonderful colors. Lacking a good focal point, but its still a nice image 8

Safety in the shadows.......only a step away!
by bcenu

Comment:
Not a bad image. Not relevant to this challenge outside of the title. Good capture, but not great. 6

Ring
by sam_13

Comment:
Honestly, is this the best book you could find to do this? This is yet another photographic cliche and they can be effective if you do them well. I've seen this picture done 1000 times, never in a travel guide. I reckon that makes it original. Not effective, but original.

Shadows in the sky
by gys

Comment:
Too much water, not enough sky. I just told someone the opposite thing a few photos ago. Thy sky is glorious in this photo, I'd feature it more. 6