This looks like a wonder location and a great sky. I would have moved a little more to your left to try to clear the bush from the center of the water's path. My eye wants to see back there...

I agree that the lines lead me to the convergence behind the bush. Also you could have tried putting that convergence in one of the thirds of the shot.

This old Joshua Tree seems to reach out to touch the sun one more time before falling over. I will go back in the spring to see if he is still standing.

I like the idea. I also think that making the ground or the sky dominate the rest of the scene may help the shot out.

From "Book of Dreams" project

Can you provide more info on the project, looks interesting. This is a serious photo collage, nice job.

Thanks for the interest Clyde. The "Book of Dreams" project is a series of photographs I've taken over the years that are experiments or improvisations done mostly in the darkroom. Most of them are crude, graphic, and rather unsophisticated in technique, but I quite enjoy making them. This particular image is a solarized digital image of my legs and feet in a bathtub after a shower. Layers of texture added later. I like the way it looks like a film based photograph. I'm going to print it and put the print in my bathroom. Again, thanks for the interest and glad you like it.

Sweet, only imo the blue-ish water is shouting for my attention, that's really pity. Maybe you can reduce the blue color by pp. A b&w treatment will maybe also help.
To make the animals the main subject of the scene, I suggest some cropping from all sites, too. You certainly have to get rit off that strange thing in the lower left corner.

This would have been much better if you could have gotten the ducks away from the reflection and just in the blue water. They would pop much better that way.

Feels a little tilted. And a little flat in the tonal range.

The blown highlights in the center window are disappointing. This might have been a good place for bracketing and a little poor man's HDR using layer masks. This is a fairly common take on a very common motif.

I like this but I think maybe a bit of post processing could have even this out and made it a cracking shot. Good subject and nice framing.

actually it's an HDR image

It looks like there is a lot of interesting graffiti in this building. I'd like to see more of that. Looks like a nice location to revisit. Fits the topic well.

This shot has a lot of potential.
Maybe revisit when it is overcast to reduce the blowouts?
I like the lighting in the rear as it is a beam showing across the graffiti.
Maybe if you could achieve that effect with the other open areas?
Great concept and would love to see more.

i loved the "time" of this picture :)

I like this, very well chosen for this Topic. I would suggest to crop the top about 15% to balance the compo a little better.

i like the low-key stilllife. beautiful use of blue tones and a wonderful surreal feel, because of the composition. nice!

I really like the textural contrast in this image. The composition feels a bit static to me. I'm just wondering if one bottle would have been more effective. All in all, a good idea. Like the low key effect.

I think this would be even stronger if you really pushed the contrast to really pull out the rim lighting. And I would go straight b&w.

I like the strange composition. I find it compelling. I do feel however that a little more exposure and subsequent tinkering would have made this.

make it brighter (de tetszik)

amazing shot!
looks out of this world!!

Coolness.

lovely movement

I like this very much, a unique take on a very common theme. Great tones, great compo, just really nice!!

It was an interesting choice to do this in black and white. It's a shot that's been done thousands of times in colour, but the black and white adds a new texture to the scene.

Another one from last Saturday's sunset in the hills above my house. The buildings just showing in the distance to the right of center are skyscrapers of downtown Los Angeles. The other one from this sunset is:
www.vazaar.com/user:Beamer/photos/id:33606/

Great color. Nice composition. What makes this image for me, are the electrical towers and power lines. Nice capture. I like this one much better than the other photo.