Fresh
by xianart

Comment:
Using window light to illuminate a subject in an otherwise darker room nicely evokes the style of old painting in a European museum, but with a modern sensibility. The clean linens and facial expression fit the title well. Very enjoyable.

Fast Car
by Jutilda

Comment:
Lens flare? I thought it was just your monocle falling off. :)
Effective backgroud blur and soft focus effect.

Vase-Reeds-Shadow
by bob350

Comment:
I forgot to add to the notes that the blur is from the nature of the shadow and the slight wall texture and not from anything else in post processing. I've used this challenge to concentrate on in-camera approaches to sharpless. Here, I tried to focus as sharply as possible on the wall texture, and used PS to enhanced contrast, convert to B&W (to elinimate a color cast), crop, and later add a border.

Fast trailside snack (I know it's a stretch)
by VanBergen

Comment:
Not such a stretch at all. Still, I might have enjoyed this more in color.

swoosh
by whiteroom

Comment:
This is quite an intriguing composition. I doubt that abstracts have strict rules about right or wrong to determine what you should or shouldn't like. Still, the horizontal lines on the left (delivery dock door?) and the shape of the person's right foot take away attention from the bet parts of the image. Why have elements that drag this away from being totally abstract? If you crop those out (your choice on how much space to leave on the right), you end up with something that would feel right at home in the Museum of Modern Art, and that would easily draw viewers back for repeated long examination.

M A S K E D
by Art Roflmao

Comment:
Wow. Almost half way through the month and here is yet another in-camera technique to get an interesting blur (even if the pointy ends were the opposite of unsharp). The result is fascinating. Ah, the things we do for art.

8/11/07 edited for spelling - caught it in reading Genie's quote.

Message edited by author 2007-08-11 18:41:53.

Batteries Not Required
by WriteHeart

Comment:
Is it really ok to think of a dog as a children's toy (even recognizing a possible play on words with the breed classification if that is "toy")?

The Toy that Keeps on Eating
by jaysonmc

Comment:
Nice light, and a gentle gesture of girl toward horse, but I balk at considering a horse to be a toy.

Toys
by kabir

Comment:
The lighting avoids harsh shadows, which is good. However, this might benefit from being shot from lower down and closer in. A looming mound of jumbled toys would be more interesting and creative to my eyes than just looking down them. This also suffers from being smaller on screen than the competition. Consider making the long dimension 640 pix. next time.

Puppy Love
by jamlc1m

Comment:
A brighter exposure might help, and I wonder whether it is legitimate to consider a puppy to be a toy.