Tarmac
by jaysonmc

Comment:
Love this - obviously the top left plane is the icing on the cake, but it is also the dissociation of the figures in their seats. Fine work.

now and into the future
by grigrigirl

Comment:
Nice crop - 'fine art' indeed! Two dynamics strike my eye - the first and most obvious is the window reflection, which, despite your title, brings to my mind a sense of the impossibility of the permanent - or at the very least a presentiment of that impossibility: the two figures, evidently still bound in the affection, but broken up by the strange geometry of the architecture. A sense of hope there, but the very sense of hope requires an admission that one cannot be certain of any future whatsoever.

Secondly, there are the two almost ghostly, almost angelic figures further up the street: in the pose you have caught strongly suggesting a more aged couple - yet still with contact, still with affection as it seems. In some senses presenting an ideal of what might possibly lie ahead, a sense of all we could reasonably hope for; two directions, the possibility of fracture, of the interference of the hard geometry of the world, and yet also the evident possibility that those might be overcome.

To top that off with your cheeky suggestion of some greater relevance to it all in that cropping of that sign; the more I look the more I think its simply a masterpiece. Thankyou.

Du Vin au Café
by xianart

Comment:
Very strong image; I like that you've caught a sense of resilient loneliness here; a sense of holding out against the tides of trash and what I guess she'd consider the 'uncouth'. Strong photograph.

Fancy fire escape
by Yo_Spiff

Comment:
I like your eye for a composition, and your sense of colour too. The organic shapes of the creeping plant - as well as the disorder of the boxes in the window add a sense of the random to the more obviously regular subject and presentation. Fine work.

Ghost in Flight
by hihosilver

Comment:
Very cool photo; you've given us a bare minimum of information really, which is ideal, and have resisted the temptation to make the left half of frame completely black, which shows strong compositional sense. Possibly my winner in this challenge.

Year of the Horse
by riolobo

Comment:
An intriguing approach - but it suffers from real exposure problems I think.

On the road
by Oded

Comment:
Fine photograph - it is of course those white objects strewn in his path which make the image, along with the fine cut of his trouser leg.

Starting a long way in life
by mb2006

Comment:
This is the only set-up shot of someone reading a book that I think has any merit in this challenge. The light is carefully done, the pose is controlled and you haven't gone overboard about trying to get some daft expression on your model's face. The tonality is a little strange perhaps - it could, it feels, have simply been brighter - although the muted nature of it also appeals.

come fly with me
by whiteroom

Comment:
I rather enjoy this, although the processing is bizarre at the very least, and perhaps distracts from the integrity of a fine image...

... made me think though. Still can't see why it should be made to look like it was torn out of an old magazine. Can't see why not either, mind you ...

To Much Wind
by vtruan

Comment:
I wonder if you haven't allowed slightly too much space around your subject, and perhaps too little detail in the fallen object. I quite like the sense of composition, the way it makes the little windmill almost not the point.