stone_n_buddha
by zephir

Comment:
You could have spent a bit more time composing this photograph. The statement seems to be about the rock and the Buddah (I'm not sure what that statement is) so why take up so much of the frame with that expanse of distracting brick in the foreground. The blurred stems of grass isn't adding anything either. The darkness of the folliage does make a nice contrast with the Buddah but it would have been more striking if you had come in much tighter, placed the Buddah more to the left, and eliminated all that wasted space in the foreground and on either side of the arrangement.
Without the title it would have taken me a moment to notice the rock sitting there. It just looks kind of random and I don't get the point you are making.

A child size truck!
by tolovemoon

Comment:
This is a really small monster truck? I don't get this at all? This is a very poorly planned composition with too many distracting details to make a powerful statement. If this is a small monster truck than it might have been effective to pose someone standing next to it in order to make an obvious statement. You should also have isolated the truck against a totally neutral background. It is somewhat out of focus which is evident in the slight blurring of the letters on the door of the truck.

Here is a very important tip which will go a long way toward improving your photos.
A photographer has to remember that the camera records *everything* within the frame of its viewfinder. The human brain works in conjection with the eyes to filter out distracting and unpleasing details. The camera is incapable of doing this. When the photographer fails to pay careful attention to any distracting details the result is shots like this.

Bricks
by GolferDDS

Comment:
This would have been a far more striking abstract without the black grate in the top left corner. I don't really see how that adds to the idea of proportion or lack of it unless you want to argue that the distracting grate adds a lack of proportion to the image. The problem there is, it does so in an unpleasing way and uninteresting way. I think focusing more tightly on fewer bricks and shooting straight ahead instead of slightly up would have made a more powerful statement about the proportion in the design of these colorful bricks. The slight tilt upward is skewing the design.

emotional disproportion-self portrait (they are both me)
by fstopopen

Comment:
Without the title I don't think I would have caught on that both these images were of yourself. As a photo it has potential although I don't think you quite caught it here. There is a line of shadow running vertically down the face of you in the tie and you in the sweater are far too fuzzy and unfocused. To make a more obvious point about proportion you should have made sure your shirt and tie were much neater. At any rate, I think this is stretching the idea of proportion a bit. Sure there is contrast between a working stiff and a casual guy in a sweater but I don't think that really illustrates proportion or lack of proportion.

Colours
by asij

Comment:
This is a very striking abstract image and it meets the criteria. I would prefer more contrast between the shadows and the benches.

Spring loneliness
by cmartos

Comment:
This is a nice image. It definitely meets the criteria. I wonder if you could have moved in close enough to crop out that strip of soil and still made the statement? Perhaps framing it horizontally would have allowed you to keep the expanse of sky yet omit the distracting strip?

Mommy, Me & Baby makes Three
by shkelly587

Comment:
Sorry but this is just a nice snapshot.There are too many distractions and the image is very washed out and lacking in detail. The distractions: a box on the floor behind the boy, a tuft of fur (the dog?) peeping out from the botttom edge, and most of all the edge of that white door and its stained glass panel. Another problem is you can't see mom's face. Even though it meets the criteria in terms of subject matter, I have to vote low on this one.

George, get the phone, your son thinks he has found the WMD.
by Cam

Comment:
This is an interesting idea in regards to the challenge. What in the world is this place? I'm distracted by that red car in front of Gerald Ford but otherwise it looks pretty good. Is it about to hit him? :D

Fabrication
by beckettboots

Comment:
I just looked at this picture again. emailed a link to my husband sitting at his computer in the other room because this kind of humour is right up his alley--he uses a Sharpie to surprise me with new products in my pantry such as Crap Olive Oil a.k.a. Carapelli and Old Gay seasoning a.k.a. Old Bay. Anyway, a second look made me realize that the ivy creeping along the side of the building looks like an upright bear. Too bad you couldn't have managed a 'bear erection'.

look what I found
by slonko

Comment:
I'm sorry I didn't get to this shot before the voting was done. I think this really captured a serendipitous moment in the mist that frames the pair from above. I would have liked the horses (or are those cows) to be in a bit sharper in focus. Perhaps if you had moved in a few feet closer?