Time to move on
by Judi

Comment:
This might be a little overprocessed for my taste, but I must admit that it does bring out a lot of detail. As cool as the sky looks, I'd even be conntent with a panorama crop to put the focus back on the building.

Skeletons
by glad2badad

Comment:
I love the comparison between the two. I wish you had taken a step or two to the right so that the tree wouldn't touch the chimney. I wonder what this would look like as a highish contrast BnW.

Pink Car
by justine

Comment:
Nice subject (I especially love the bullet holes : ))! I wish you had used a longer lens and a shallow depth of field to blur out the trees. That would have left the only detail in the bullet holes to make sure that everyone sees them!

Rural Graffiti Dreams
by unbreakable

Comment:
This looks like a really cool barn. I'm not really a fan of the oversaturation of the shade-blue of the roof nor of the purple border, but I like the selective focus. It looks like it it was done in post-processing, bur it gives a nice dreamy feel.

Old Silo
by wolf

Comment:
The distortion of the building makes it look important (since it gives the impression of looking up to it), but the centered composition and inclusion of so much sky at the top counter act that to make the building look small/insignificant. Maybe move in a little, then put the building more to the right and use the fence as a leading line?

Watch Your Step
by picklenose

Comment:
The curtains in the window make me think someone might still live here...

BnW is pretty tricky. I'm not sure this image has enough balance between black, gray, and white to pull it off better than it would in color. There is a lot of gray, and it is all a pretty uniform tone of gray too.

A vignette/dodging and burning would have helped tell the viewer which part of the image you want us to pay attention to. A shallower depth of field would have helped with that too. Since your title is "Watch Your Step," it makes me think you want the view to focus on the cinder block on the ground. Maybe get down to their level, use a shallow depth of field to focus on them, and put the out-of-focus cinder block door step and part of the door frame in the background.

Dead
by dorseteye

Comment:
I wish you had taken two steps to the right. On the branch on the bottom left, there is the start of a beautiful rim light. Moving to the side would have put that rim light on the whole tree. Then you could have bumped up the contrast to put the rest of the tree into true silhouette.

The Old Country Schoolhouse
by Trumpeteer4

Comment:
Processed just enough to bring out the detail of the wood and brick, but it all still seems soft (that's a good thing) and calm. I half wish you had trimmed the branches, leaving only the ones that curve with the arch. The light coming through the inner window is gorgeous.

Seen Better Days
by hotpasta

Comment:
I think the wide angle distortion makes this feel bloated and unbalanced. The gradient in the sky and contrasting highlight on the roof are gorgeous. This was probably taken during the day, but I'd like to think it was lit by the moon--the BnW helps with the effect!

Parched
by CorySmith

Comment:
I think this is potentially an interesting subject, but the composition doesn't do it justice. I would either pull back to show more of the landscape, which would make the buildings look more isolated and would put more of an emphasis on the texture created but the plows, or I would crop closer to show more detail of the buildings. The buildings are also a little centered for my taste. I love the uniformity of the color, but I wish there was a tiny bit more contrast to make everything pop (though the low contrast may be because I'm on a laptop).