Interesting. I feel like I want to remove the askew piece of wood, and then notice I can't because the rope holds it.
Without the askew piece, it would have made for a rather dull picture, so it is necessary, and at the same time, it nags me... I like that.

Oh yeah - the difracted man - love the range of colors too ;)

ha ha. I think it's the demise of Paul Bunyan!

Oh my, this is wonderful. Fall of the robot. The crooked ladder adds a nice little movement to the picture too.

Well my ole friend, you seem to have a new fan!! 6 in the Top favorites!! This was always one of my fav's, glad to see it again.

Hey Beamer.
Yeah.
Suddenly I'm popular.
heh
go figure, just when the place is busting up!

real good mix of colours and textures here.
Maybe take it from near the ground?

Wow, great colours...

Do you need one of these? I love the shot, but it looks very precarious :-)

I need lots of those. 4th floor of a parking garage.

Too bad about the cable, that spoils it for me. Sorry.

superb atmosphere, grats for being featured. and i think i see you in there. the shadow hitting the bench splits strangely, your shadow could end there.

This is lovely, superb long shadows and the golden light makes it even more beautiful!!

Wonderful shot - long shadows are powerful. Also they indicate something behind the viewer which gives the photo a sense of greater depth

Congrats!!

Beautiful. It's as if there's a virtual railroad there. (The lamppost taking the role of telegraph pole.)

Lots of trial and error! Timer, tripod and sitting on a stool!
Thank you!

Beautiful. Would be great for Shallow DOF also :)

Great detail... and a really interesting idea to frame it so you can't see the pupil at all.

Thank you!
Was a tough one to get right!

Great idea. I would have cropped JUST a little, tiny bit more from the left, so as to get rid of that last little bit of pupil.
Very creative thinking, photographing the eye, but leaving out the one thing that everybody would consider essential.

I like this photo. The blurred flowers in the foreground send my eyes immediately to the posts and help establish depth in the picture. Having said that, the posts are only mildly interesting in and of themselves. I think this photo would be improved if there was some additional point of interest located next to the posts...perhaps a young girl reaching down to pick one of the flowers, or an old gardener leaning on a rake. The photo is fine as is, just able to be so much more. By the way, I like the colors in this garden. I bet it's a nice place to visit.

Thank you both for your comments.
Jeff, I agree with you about the photo needing another subject. I originally took this photograph because of the shadows.

I am not so sure that this does need anything else. I agree that the colours and the sense of depth are very well composed here. Perhaps the only thing that I seem to stumble across is the post lined up with the tree trunk, maybe a step or two to the right would have allowed the tree to shine beyond the posts.

when I see the photo, it seems that columns are the main subject. There are more interesting elements in the image but they are out of focus (flowers) or they are very poorly contrasted (tree), so you look at the columns again at the end. And columns aren't interesting...

Sorry, that's my opinion :)

I don't think the picture needs more, I'ld rather go for less. Crop off the horizontal beams in the top of the picture, and not only the whole things gets an abstract quality, but also the tree jumps up in the attention. I don't think it'ld make for a perfect picture, but it would definitely be an improvement, IMHO.

Powerful and frightening image...respect!

Very impressive !

Very impressive.
Having been through a few house fires, this really bring back the tragedy, the loss, the emotional turmoil that was, a house fire.

thank you for the comment.
Must be really tough to go through a real fire like this.

Great colorization, just the fire and the BW. Almost makes you forget there's a tragedy going on here.
BTW, fire is cool??? :-)

Ana, this made me laugh out loud! Thanks for sharing this risque photo with us!

Well, he's at least man's best friend. I rather think this is covered by the "artistic" part of the topic (artistic license -- no test or proof of insurance necessary). Good fun!

this by far the most stunning picture i see for ages... ;-)

@refocus. If you say so.
:)

Almost fell off my chair when I saw what topic you posted this to.
But since nobody else seems to comment on anything but the topic:
I love the composition of this. There would be a rather big chunk of grey, but you broke it up nicely with the belt and the bone. Not just a joke, but a good picture in itself!

Good job. It shows your technical ability's and it's kind a funny, too. Only thing I would do diffrent (if I would be able to it :p )is photographing this scene with the text not upside-down. Just twist the image 180 degrees won't do it of course, the perspective would not be right then.

Great one!! See you can still do it... I've been thinking of a self-portrait for this Topic!!

I like the idea behind this shot, the only thing that bothers me is the shallow depth of field, too little of the image is in focus.

I agree with Angad, great idea, with humor, but too much of the scene is out of focus.