Owachomo Bridge, Natural Bridges Nat'l Monument
by rjkstesch

Comment:
Yep, Natural Monument, slight stretch but I will let it slide........not exactly what the challenge was after but likely to do well.
Reflections are great which help the image. Some work on the colours could have helped as the reds and greens could have really made this image stand out.

Iwo Jima flag Raising Parris Island SC Memorial
by JarHead

Comment:
Nice monument........great colours, great day to be out there photographing.
But, why did you photograph this side of the monument........a stronger image could have been from a different angle, getting the faces if possible.......Also wondering why you did not wait until the marches had moved away. They don't seem to be adding anything, cause they are too small, so just form a distraction. The crop is very tight at the top near the flag as well.

Latin America Memorial
by Lelez

Comment:
Interesting monument, but there are a lot of distractions around it. Don't know what else is there, but maybe a different angle, combined with a tighter crop might have worked and removed the distraction elements. I wonder if almost lying on the ground near the base and photographing upwards, showing the fingers reaching for the sky might have made for a really interesting image......and something different...........

Gateway to the West
by Anthony_D_Archer

Comment:
I don't know what this is, but it does look really interesting. Reflections here are great which makes this one of the standouts in this challenge. Colour is also very interesting as well, which helps to make it interesting. The centred composition maybe is not great, but I note that to the right is nothing to help (but does border the image well......)
Not exactly what I was expecting from this challenge, but it is well done and the results are great.
Great time to photograph it, and great reflections.........Well done.

Who's against universal healthcare?
by skewsme

Comment:
The image here does not meet the challenge imo, and not a Stock - medicine image

Even ignoring that, there are artifacts through the image, the leaves in the top are a distraction, and the bird is underexposed so just a black blob.......

Sorry, but thats an honest assessment

Sisters Playing Doctor
by JustCaree

Comment:
Cannot see the 'Stock' qualities of this image. If the challenge was just 'Medicine' then it may be closer to the challenge topic.

The B&W processing here I am not sure works. I think this image needed colour in it. The image has way to much of a 'grey' feel, with much of the image being a very similar grey......I don't think this helps the image.

Cough-Off
by IreneM

Comment:
Stunning.........clean, crisp. Presentation is brilliant, composition is great. One of the standout images in the challenge

Bloodborne
by mefnj

Comment:
Brilliant.......Stands out from the crowd because of the quality here.

Composition, Lighting, crop, presentation are all exceptional. Clean sharp image..........fits the topic.......and the attention to detail here (drop on the end of needle, shaddow as well) are just brilliant.

Fallout...
by Leo

Comment:
The curved earth effect here is great. You have turned it into a feature of the photograph, where normally that level of distorsion is seen as a negative.....well done there.

However, the centre of the image does not line up with the high point, so I presume you have cropped more out from the right than the left. This is creating a tilted feel.

Also, the sky being so blown out with the sun is an unfortunate element of the image

Fire & Ice
by RianBotes

Comment:
Great image. Great colour through the sky.....Would have liked more of it to be visible. I would really like to see more of the view, especially to the right side, as there looks to be more areas of interest to that side........The contrast between the snow and the sky are great........