Silk Flower Rhythm
by chalice

Comment by scruff:
interesting shot - a bit of a greenish cast to it. Good lines.

Secret WWII-Era Prison Discovered
by chalice

Comment by DemonLlama:
Good idea and I like the photo overall but if this were to be used in newsprint I believe it would come out way to dark to really tell anything about it - for image composition, it's good, but for the challenge I'm not sure it works.

Secret WWII-Era Prison Discovered
by chalice

Comment by Melethia:
Probably a bit too dark for a newspaper submission but could work in a feature article in a magazine.

Silk Flower Rhythm
by chalice

Comment by fencekicker:
Nice composition. Interesting image.

Silk Flower Rhythm
by chalice

Comment by rkligman:
You have rhythm but all the lines and arches are very distracting. Colors don't meld very well for me either. - 5

Silk Flower Rhythm
by chalice

Comment by dolphnz8:
Nice choice of color, layout and composition. I would have liked to see this without the purple flowers in it tho.

Silk Flower Rhythm
by chalice

Comment by DefyTime:
Way to use your head

Secret WWII-Era Prison Discovered
by chalice

Comment by brens29:
Front page news, good job

Hot and Cool Complementary Peppers
by chalice

Comment by Melethia:
Trading Post comment
I think you did a good job with the lighting here but it could have had more "pop" (a certifiable DPC term, I'm sure) if the background had been whiter. I suspect you can set this with post processing, though not sure what it would do to the colors of the peppers. My other comment would be that it's a bit busy and haphazard, though I like the sorta diagonal formed by the large red peppers. My grandmother taught my mother who told me that in arranging anything, one should stick to odd numbers - here I think three, or maybe five peppers would be a simpler more dramatic arrangement.

All that said, it scored fairly well, and the folks who gave it 2s and 3s were probably grumpy that day or tired of shots of peppers/vegetables this week. Who knows?

Silk Flower Rhythm
by chalice

Comment by care:
Cropping the top would really bring the focus to the flower