Street Kid in Sydney
by vlado

Comment:
Extraordinarily strange composition; has good punch

The Trouble with High View Close
by Imagineer

Comment:
I rather like this shot - it holds some connection with our cold yorkshire mornings in winter, I suppose. i'm not certain the composition is entirely happy - there's that central line that is a bit clumsy, and the speed of the sweep of curve on the right is perhaps a bit inconclusive - I mean, it takes the eye to a place that is not really comfortable, and so leaves a feeling of an unsatisfactory journey. I like your tonality, but think that little more excitement in the distribution of elements throughout the frame would have more impact.

Similarly, the two cars make a fairly strong eye-catcher in this image - they're brighter, they're familiar, and yet you have them completely obscured by those bushes. I wonder if you've played with your possible angles and compositions enough here - tried shooting from higher, or lower, or a few steps to one side or the other, and then assessed those shots when you got home? It just feels pretty plain to me that you could have found a more satisfying composition ...

Planned Unit Development
by banmorn

Comment:
Fine photo. It's the little touches of suggested humanity - those rubbish bags and the bin, mainly, that really give this its sinister impact.

Calm Before The Storm In The Suburbs
by J-Me

Comment:
This does it for me: the strange world of mix-and-match near-identical homes, and everything built for the car.

Doin' Yardwork
by klkitchens

Comment:
Nice image; reminiscent, in a way, of Martin Parr's work on England: the colour saturation, the humdrum subject, the off-beat but effective composition.

Ice Cream Social
by colorcarnival

Comment:
I'm really not a fan of this processing: it has made plastic what might otherwise have been a fascinating shot.

Neighborhood Watch
by Les_Feck

Comment:
Perhaps a little more definition in the street outside? I like the concept, but I wonder if a little more depth of field might have made the message plainer.

Suburban Nature
by ThatChickOverThere

Comment:
Good shot. Composition works well, and that sense of the control of nature's usually more chaotic processes is well communicated.

spending the morning
by kolasi

Comment:
Perhaps it's just from the edging into frame of that landing, but there's a good sense of a further world about this shot. Something we might, in our suburban fantasy, happily ignore whilst we feed the ducks?

Greenurbia
by Ringostarr

Comment:
I rather like this one, for this challenge. The pull between the leading line of the path and the middle-ground and background subjects lends it a strong dynamic. The saturated green of the grass, the un-fenced path, the hyper-neatness of everything, all speak strongly of the expected un-natural tidiness of the suburbs; 'we can control everything, even to the riot of nature'. Makes you wonder what sinisterness goes on behind those facades.